Amazon Nimble Studio adds support for on-demand Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) G3 and G5 instances, allowing customers to utilize additional GPU instance types for their creative projects. Artists depend on a mix of CPUs, RAM, and GPUs for their their creative needs. You can now access additional instance types such as the EC2 G3 and G5 instances (EC2 G5 instances utilize the NVIDIA A10G Tensor Core GPU), providing Nimble Studio customers greater flexibility to use the right resources for the project.
AWS Network Firewall adds coin mining, phishing, and mobile operating systems categories to AWS Managed Threat Signatures
AWS Network Firewall supports AWS Managed Threat Signatures to detect threats and block attacks against known vulnerabilities so you can stay up to date on the latest security threats without writing and maintaining your own rules. Starting today, you can enable AWS managed rules to protect against coin mining malware, credential phishing, and malware for mobile operating systems (OS).
Why Are People Giving Up Their Jobs?
Research in Australia, Canada, India, Singapore, the UK and US by McKinsey & Company reveals that of employees that chose to quit their jobs from April 2020 to April 2022, 65% did not so far return to the same industry. The most common reasons cited by people quitting their jobs are: “Lack of career development/advancement” …
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2D material offers novel spin state for spintonics
Students of spintronics have another spin state to add to their tool box: a 2D material hosting a ‘spiral spin liquid’ – in which magnetic spins form fluctuating corkscrew-like structures. In this case, the material is the van der Waals honeycomb magnet iron trichloride, which has a layer of iron atoms sandwiched between two layers …
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Thumbnail sized thermelectric generator is non-toxic for IoT
Researchers in Japan have micro-fabricated a thermoelectric generator for IoT devices from non-toxic materials. The proof-of-concept consists of 36 junctions, each made from p-type Mg2Sn0.8Ge0.2 working against n-type bismuth. “The output voltages of thermoelectric conversion modules and devices generally decrease as their sizes diminish,” according to the Japanese National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS). “An …
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Q2 beats wafer area shipment record
Q2 silicon wafer area shipments were up 1% q-o-q at 3,704 million square inches, topping the previous record high set in Q1, says SEMI’s Silicon Manufacturers Group (SMG). Second-quarter silicon wafer shipments saw 5% growth from the 3,534 million square inches reported during the same quarter last year. “Silicon shipments and demand remain robust driven by …
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EW BrightSparks 2022 profile: Mihai Daniel Ivanescu
Now in its fifth year of awards, EW BrightSparks sees Electronics Weekly partner with RS Grass Roots to highlight the brightest and most talented young engineers in the UK today. Here, in our series on the latest EW BrightSparks of 2022, we highlight Mihai Daniel Ivanescu, a Graduate Software Engineer at Imagination Technologies. Achievement Daniel studied …
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Lockheed Martin, Maxar Space win NOAA weather satellite contracts
The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has selected two companies – Lockheed Martin and Maxar Space – to advance its Earth observations from geostationary orbit. The contracts were officially awarded by NASA on behalf of the NOAA to meet the objectives of the GeoXO programme. The total value of each of the ten-month …
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2022 semi sales to hit $639bn
2022 semiconductor revenue will grow 7.4% to $639 billion, down from 2021 growth of 26.3%, says Gartner. In 2023, it is expected to fall 2.5%. “We are already seeing weakness in semiconductor end markets, especially those exposed to consumer spending,” says Gartner’s Richard Gordon, “rising inflation, taxes and interest rates, together with higher energy and fuel costs, …
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US Chips Act passed
The US Chips Act finally made it through Congress yesterday with the House of Representatives voting 243 to 187 in favour. The bill now goes to the White House where President Joe Biden is expected to sign it next week putting it into law. The bill provides $52 billion in funding for the US chip …
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