The Q1 contract price for server DRAM modules is 40% up on Q4, reports DRAMeXchange.

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Intel has release some details of its forthcoming C3000 Atom processors. Designed for network and storage products, the family provides up to 16 compute cores for a claimed increase of up to 2.3x compute performance compared with the previous-generation C2750 Atom. In addition, up to 19Mpacket/s of Layer 3 forwarding is available. “Unique features for the intelligent network edge …

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Blu Wireless Technology, the Bristol WiGig specialist, has received a significant investment from ARM and other strategic and private investors. This will allow the companies’ mutual customers to deploy high performance mmWave and software defined networks (SDN) demanded for the cost-effective deployment of the forthcoming 5G standard. 10Gbps-class mmWave modems based on the Blu Wireless …

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SSL product developers can now buy optics designed for stringent IP requirements from LEDiL, while the company also has a new hybrid lens/reflector optic, and more options for outdoor area lighting.

You now have the ability to automatically update SPICE (Super-fast, Parallel, In-memory, Calculation, Engine) datasets in Amazon QuickSight based on a schedule. You can specify the Time Zone, the Time of Day, the Frequency (Daily, Weekly, or Monthly), and the Starting Date for your SPICE dataset refresh. This capability eliminates the manual process of updating SPICE datasets and allows you to easily share dashboards with up-to-date information. Scheduled refresh is now available in Amazon QuickSight for all supported AWS, cloud and on-premises data sources, for both new and existing datasets in all regions. For more information, see the AWS Big Data Blog post on Scheduled Refresh .

Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports M4, C4, and R4 instance types. M4 and R4 instances provide improved compute performance at lower prices than the previous generation of M3 and R3 instances. With the C4 instance type, you can benefit from better cost effectiveness for workloads that have high indexing requirements. Additionally, on the newly supported instances, Amazon Elasticsearch Service offers increased EBS volume size up to 1.5 TB per node. The increased volume size allows you to store up to 30 TB in a single Amazon Elasticsearch Service domain using EBS-backed data nodes, which is triple the previous limit. For Provisioned IOPS SSD volumes, we have also increased the maximum to 16,000 IOPS to support the most demanding workloads. This release also offers operational enhancements that reduce the time required for performing cluster updates and snapshots, typically by more than 50%.

AWS Config Rules is now available in the Europe (London) AWS region.

AWS Config Rules now supports seven new managed rules, which are predefined rules that AWS Config uses to evaluate whether your AWS resources comply with common best practices. 

Developers can now use Amazon GameLift with their preferred game engine. Whether it’s Amazon Lumberyard, Unreal Engine, Unity, or custom C# and C++ game engines, developers can leverage Amazon GameLift as a simple, fast, cost-effective tool for hosting dedicated game servers. The Amazon GameLift SDK download contains C# and C++ support and a prebuilt Unreal Engine plugin that accelerates and simplifies integration into Unreal Engine game servers. 

Clean TeQ and Ionic Industries have joined forces with Monash University to scale up graphene-based water and wastewater filtration technology…