TSMC has taped out a 10nm design for Apple, reports Digitimes. Certification of the process is scheduled for Q4 with customer samples in Q1 2017,and early volume in Q2 17. Shipping for revenue is slated for Q3 17. Called A11, the chip is destined for Apple’s phone launching Autumn 2017. Intel’s 10nm process was due …

TSMC Tapes Out 10nm IC

Concurrent Technologies has designed its latest COM processor module around a low power variant of the 6th generation Intel Core processor, previously known as Skylake-H. The company has designed the XMC module with a conduction-cooled envelope suitable for use on both custom and open standard based carriers, including VPX and VME. Designated, XP B5x/msd the …

Intel Core i3 processor scales for COM embedded modules

Even when Intel was one of the world’s ten most valuable companies, and Gordon Moore was chairman of it, he still didn’t have his own parking space, complaining once: “We have so many people in Santa Clara that if you leave during the day, it’s difficult to get a parking space when you come back.” …

A Tenuous Industry

Engineers at Oregon State University have tripled heat transfer (in W/m2K) in heatsinks that rely in liquid boiling, by finding a way to induce and control boiling bubble formation. “One of the key limitations for electronic devices is the heat they generate, and something that helps dissipate that heat will help them operate at faster …

Heat pipes improved by high-tech dots

EC2 Auto Recovery, an Amazon EC2 feature designed to increase instance availability, is now available in Beijing (China). With Auto Recovery, you can automatically recover supported instances when a system impairment is detected. Auto Recovery keeps your existing instance running and automatically recovers your instance on new underlying hardware, if needed, so you do not generally need to migrate to a new instance. 

Real-time sewer network modeling and analytics-driven risk-based asset management software to improve business planning, infrastructure sustainability and resiliency.

Siemens will make these energy and water conservation measures at the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) in Ashland and the Federal Medical Center (FMC) in Lexington.

The total value of the transaction is approximately $23 million.

Black & Veatch provided construction project management and design services on two of the four completed key facilities of the Emergency and Carryover Storage Project (E&CSP), which provides the region with up to six months of emergency water storage.

There’s something a bit repetitive about Intel and telecoms. At the turn of the century it spent $10 billion buying up telecoms companies in an attempt to get into the market. It failed to have much impact. Now, it seems, it has spent another $10 billion trying to get into wireless telecoms and has failed …

Californian Delusion