Starting today, Amazon EC2 C6id instances are available in Asia Pacific (Seoul) and Asia Pacific (Singapore) Regions. C6id instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Ice Lake processors with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz and up to 7.6 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage.

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C6g instances are available in AWS Africa (Cape Town). These instances are powered by AWS Graviton2 processors and are built on the AWS Nitro System, a collection of AWS designed hardware and software innovations that enables the delivery of efficient, flexible, and secure cloud services with isolated multi-tenancy, private networking, and fast local storage. These instances offer up to 25 Gbps of network bandwidth and up to 19 Gbps of bandwidth to the Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS).

AWS DataSync introduces manifests, a new feature that enables you to provide a definitive list of source files or objects to be transferred by your DataSync tasks. Using manifests, you can decrease your task execution times by specifying only the files or objects that need to be processed by your task.

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud IP Address Manager (Amazon VPC IPAM) that makes it easier for you to plan, track, and monitor IP addresses for your AWS workloads, is now available in Canada West (Calgary) Region.

We haven’t featured a teardown for a while, and this is a good one: an iFixit teardown of the very new (and very expensive) Apple Vision Pro.

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We’ve been hearing variations of the same story for years: “Facebook is no longer cool”, “people are leaving Facebook behind”, “teenagers are over Facebook” and so on and so forth. …

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The METIS (MicroElectronics Training, Industry and Skills) study has concluded and finds that the Top Five Critical Job Profiles in the microelectronics sector in 2023 are: Data specialist Software engineer …

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AST SpaceMobile, which aims to build a space-based cellular broadband network accessible by everyday smartphones, has announced strategic investment from AT&T, Google and Vodafone. The goal is for its in-orbit …

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Hitachi and NEC are to sell off their shares in Renesas. Hitachi Semiconductor and Mitsubishi Electric were the founding partners in Renesas in 2002 with  NEC Electronics, the semiconductor arm …

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TSMC is to build a second fab at Kumamoto and Toyota has invested in the TSMC subsidiary responsible for the two fabs  – Japan Advanced Semiconductor  Manufacturing (JASM) – in …

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