Huawei is building a $1.66 billion R&D complex in Shanghai as big as 224 football pitches to develop chip manufacturing equipment, reports the Nikkei. An important area will be litho …

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Historically, component temperature has been correlated with reliability, with early studies relating field failure rates to steady-state component temperature. More recently, physics-based reliability prediction has related failure rates of electronic …

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Shanghai-based foundry SMIC has identified 463 fabless chip firms in China and says the demand for more is enormous. “We have identified 463 fabless semiconductor companies in mainland China, 120 …

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Researchers at the Tokyo Institute of Technology have found a novel way to reduce source and drain contact resistance, and increase carrier mobility, in amorphous oxide transistors. In particular, they …

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Alpha and Omega Semiconductor has released a 7A 23V USB Type-C protection and reverse-blocking switch IC. Dubbed AOZ1377DI, is can be used in both Sink and Source applications and it …

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Today, AWS Resource Explorer has expanded the availability of resource search and discovery to 10 additional AWS Regions: Africa (Cape Town), Middle East (UAE), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Europe (Milan), Israel (Tel Aviv), Canada West (Calgary), Europe (Spain), and Europe (Zurich). With this launch, customers can turn on Resource Explorer to search for and discover resources across all commercial AWS Regions.

AWS Step Functions announces an optimized integration for AWS Elemental MediaConvert, enabling video transcode jobs in your workflow. With this integration, customers can easily build automated, resilient media workflows using the visual authoring and operator experience of Step Functions. With the new Run a Job (.sync) integration pattern for the MediaConvert CreateJob API, Step Functions will wait for asynchronous MediaConvert transcoding jobs to complete before progressing to the next step, simplifying the orchestration of multi-step media processing pipelines.

Starting today, AWS Elemental MediaTailor now supports HLS Interstitials for video-on-demand (VOD) streams. This feature, which you can enable as an option, automatically conditions manifests so ad break pods are decoupled from the main content stream. By separating the ad content from the main video stream, HLS Interstitials provides more efficient ad payload delivery reducing video start-up time when compared to traditional Server-Side Ad Insertion and reduced buffering or errors during ad breaks compared to Client-Side Ad Insertion.

Today, AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) announces new flexibility, visibility, and pricing for automatic key rotation. You can now customize the frequency of rotation period between 90 days to 7 years (2560 days) as well as invoke key rotation on demand for customer managed KMS keys. Lastly, you can now see the history of all previous rotations for any KMS key that has been rotated. 

Amazon Detective, a managed security service that helps analysts investigate potential security issues across AWS, has introduced a new feature to support investigating threats detected by Amazon GuardDuty’s EC2 Runtime Monitoring capability. This expansion enhances Detective’s ability to provide visualizations and context for investigating runtime threats targeting EC2 instances.