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Littelfuse, Inc.  and IXYS Corporation, announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Littelfuse will acquire all of the outstanding shares of IXYS in a cash and stock transaction. The transaction represents an equity value of approximately $750 million and enterprise value of $655 million. Under the terms of the agreement, each IXYS stockholder will be entitled to elect...

Tata Power, India’s largest integrated power company, announced that the Company’s 100% subsidiary, Tata Power Renewable Energy Ltd. (TPREL) increased its generation capacity by 337 per cent in FY17 as compared to FY16. TPREL generated 1440 MUs that from renewable energy sources (wind & solar) in FY17 as compared to 329 MUs in FY16. TPREL is the primary vehicle through...

Data centers and the networks they support have grown to be an integral part of every business. The software applications that keep mission-critical operations up and running in highly redundant, 24/7 environments rely on highly engineered structured cabling systems to connect the cloud to every user. Structured cabling is the foundation that supports data centers. Although structured cabling isn’t as sexy...

Super Micro Computer, Inc., a global leader in compute, storage, and networking technology and green computing, announced the availability of new all-flash NVMe (Non-Volatile Memory Express) 1U and 2U Ultra SuperServers. With support for 20 hot-swap NVMe SSDs, Supermicro’s new all-flash 2U Ultra server delivers a groundbreaking 18 million IOPS of storage performance. “To achieve the lowest possible latency, Supermicro’s...

Highlights: Sales up almost 30 percent to EUR 2.5 billion EBITDA pre exceptionals increased significantly by 25.3 percent to EUR 367 million EBITDA margin pre exceptionals at 14.6 percent Chemtura acquisition delivers significant earnings contribution Reporting in new segment structure Net income pre exceptionals increased by 75 percent to EUR 141 million Guidance for the full year 2017 confirmed:...

The United States Agency for International Development’s Oceans and Fisheries Partnership (USAID Oceans) and Inmarsat Global Limited (Inmarsat) have announced a new partnership to help commercial fishing crews promote sustainable fishing in Southeast Asia. By making use of enhanced communication technology, the partnership will advance catch documentation and traceability (CDT) to promote legal, reported and regulated fishing. USAID Regional Development...

Sultana Nahar, Ph.D. wants more scientific advances and discoveries, and she wants them now. Her strategy? Teaching research-based courses. Through physics and STEM courses and workshops, Nahar has been improving the computational skills of the scientific community one person at a time with the hope that more breakthroughs will be made. “We can solve more problems in science, we just need manpower,”...

Magnesium batteries offer promise for safely powering modern life – unlike traditional lithium ion batteries, they are not flammable or subject to exploding – but their ability to store energy has been limited. Researchers reported Aug. 24 in the journal Nature Communications the discovery of a new design for the battery cathode, drastically increasing the storage capacity and upending conventional...

IEEE, the world's largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for humanity, and the IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA), announced the approval of the IEEE P7130—Standard for Quantum Computing Definitionsproject. The new standards project aims to make Quantum Computing more accessible to a larger group of contributors, including developers of software and hardware, materials scientists, mathematicians, physicists, engineers, climate scientists, biologists...

A team of researchers from Oak Ridge National Laboratory has been awarded nearly $2 million over three years from the Department of Energy to explore the potential of machine learning in revolutionizing scientific data analysis. The Advances in Machine Learning to Improve Scientific Discovery at Exascale and Beyond (ASCEND) project aims to use deep learning to assist researchers in making...