Microsemi samples NVMe Gen 4 PCIe controller

Microsemi, which is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of Microchip Technology, introduced its Flashtec NVMe 3016 Gen 4 PCIe controller. The device serves high-reliability, high-performance PCIe Gen 4 NVMe solid state drives (SSDs) and is capable of delivering greater than 8 GB per second throughput and more than 2 million IOPS. It supports enterprise features going beyond the NVMe 1.3 protocol with the latest in security, encryption, virtualization...

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Three UK posts 2% revenue growth in 1H18, signs Huawei for 5G

Three UK reported revenue of £1.19 billion for the first half of 2018, up 2% from 1H17. Customer service margin was £729 million, up 1%, and EBITDA was £364 million, up 7%. Operational highlights: 6% growth of the active contract customer base; total customer base now 10.1 million Contract handset churn at lowest ever level of 1%, a 9% improvement Usage per customer of 7.6GB per month, up 10% from 6.9GB 84% of customer base using 4G and 75% of...

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Audi looks at 5G for enhancing its production facilities

Audi is evaluating 5G as a future-proof communication technology that can meet the high demands of automotive production. Audi and Ericsson have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) and in the coming months, experts from both companies will run field tests in a technical center of the “Audi Production Lab” in Gaimersheim, Germany. Frank Loydl, Chief Information Officer at AUDI AG, says: “The fully networked factory will have a significant...

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Microsoft Azure adds size-flexible, Virtual Machine Instances

Microsoft announced instance size flexibility for Azure Reserved Virtual Machine Instances, a new feature that makes reserved instance purchasing and management even simpler by applying reservation discounts to different This means users no longer have to deploy the exact same VM size to get the benefit of purchased Azure Reserved Instances (RI) as other VM sizes within the same VM group also get the RI discount. Instance size flexibility will be...

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