Amazon SageMaker model training now supports heterogeneous clusters, which enables launching training jobs that use multiple instance types in a single job. This new capability can improve your training cost by running different parts of the model training on the most suitable instance type. For example, we recently trained a ResNet-50 computer vision model on a heterogeneous cluster with ml.g5.xl and ml.c5n.2xl instances. This training job resulted in 13% lower cost than training the same model on a cluster with only ml.g5.xl instances with the same accuracy.

One of the biggest cock-ups in the history of the chip industry was the purchase of  Fairchild by the French oil-field services giant Schlumberger. Schlumberger bought the company for $425 million in 1979 and invested another $1 billion in it over the next eight years before selling it for $122 million to National in 1987. …

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There’s electric motor energy use at CERN, the newest LG flagship CineBeam 4K laser projector, the sale of DUV immersion lithography tools to China, an Infineon acquisition and plans for an open access compound semiconductor foundry…

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Cree has launched a 1.6 x 2,05mm led range with 17 colour options, plus whites. Called ‘Element G’, and also ‘XE-G’, leds, they are aimed at colour mixing applications and are said to have “nearly 3x the light output of the XQ-E and 9x the lumen density of XP-E2”, said Cree. There are nine colours …

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SatixFy, a UK manufacturer of electronic systems for communications over satellite, has demonstrated a 5G link through a LEO (Low Earth Orbit) satellite constellation. Using its compact fully electronically steered multi-beam multi-orbit antenna terminal, the Farnborough-based company described it as the first ever demonstration of a high-speed, low-latency link with a LEO constellation incorporating 5G. …

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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 Sarah Cooper, who is a Senior Hardware Engineer at Leonardo. Achievement Sarah has …

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There has been a wave of  foundry order cancellations for PMIC, CIS, and certain MCU and SoC orders, says Trend Force. Foundries are beginning to feel the strain of cancellations and capacity utilisation rates have  declined. There has been a sustained downgrade of driver IC demand and inventory adjustment has begun for smartphones, PCs, and …

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May semiconductor sales were up 18% y-o-y at $51.8 billion compared to the May 2021 total  of $43.9 billion and up 1.8% on April’s $50.9 billion, saysthe SIA. “Global demand for semiconductors remained high in May, with year-to-year sales increasing strongly across all major regional markets and product categories,” says SIA CEO John Neuffer, “continuing …

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Samsung’s Q2 guidance put revenue up 21% y-o-y at $59 billion. Operating profit was up 11% y-o-y at $10.7 billion. Sales of NAND for the April-June quarter were up 2% and DRAM sales were up 9%. Sales of server DRAM are continuing to be robust. Samsung shipped 74 million smartphones in the first quarter and …

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Fabless suppliers have taken a record  34.8% share of global  IC sales after having a2011-2021 CAGR of 10% –  double that of the IDMs. While there is a relatively close relationship between the annual market growth of the fabless IC suppliers and foundries, the sales growth rates of fabless companies versus IDMs suppliers have usually …

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