Amazon RDS now allows you to have up to 20 concurrent snapshot copy requests per destination region per account, an increase from the former limit of five concurrent copies per destination region per account.

ONE of the regular features of the Physical Society Exhibition which I always inspect with unfailing fascination is the work of the prizewinners in the ‘apprentices’competition. So, 61 years ago, started a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of January 18 1961. For the third year in succession the top award – the Sylvanus P. Thompson …

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More  than half of the globe’s known billionaires live in the USA, according to the Forbes World’s Billionaires List. The reasons why wealth is accumulating in the US are its favorable tax codes, including tax brackets instead of progressive taxation, low marginal, inheritance and capital gains tax rates as well as many loopholes that are …

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Pickering Interfaces of Clacton-on-Sea has added to its 4x-785C range of SP4T & SP6T microwave multiplexers with the addition of 67 GHz terminated SP4T / SP6T modules to support the latest requirements of the 5G and semiconductor test sectors. The 40-785C (PXI) and 42-785C (PXIe) modules feature internal relay terminations that can improve signal integrity. Devices …

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The Danish company QuadSAT – which uses drones for the test and measurement of satellite antennas – has received additional funding of €500,000 by the European Space Agency (ESA). Under the agency’s ARTES Core Competitiveness programme, the startup will develop, validate and certify its UAV testing system, to enable accurate satellite antenna testing and calibration. …

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NoCs (Networks on Chip) are becoming  a challenge as the volume of the data flows around an IC increase. “The performance of the NoC must match that of the compute part of the SoC,” says Sondrel’s Ben Fletcher, “the NoC’s function is to supply the input data fast enough to keep the compute IPs on …

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Imec has presented an experimental demonstration of a routing scheme for logic ICs with backside power delivery enabled through nano-through-silicon-vias (nTSVs) landing on buried power rails (BPRs). The BPRs connect to scaled FinFET devices whose performance was not impacted by backside wafer processing. The novel routing scheme with decoupled power and signal wiring acts as …

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Japan’s eight biggest chip companies need to hire 35,000 engineers in the next ten years,says the  Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industries Association. “It is often said that semiconductors are lacking, but the biggest shortage is engineers,” Hideki Wakabayashi, professor at the Tokyo University of Science, who is the head of the policy proposal task …

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Hailo, the Israeli AI IP developer, is  collaboratiing with Renesas on ADAS chips. The combination of Hailo-8 processors, designed for Neural Network (NN) acceleration, with the Renesas R-Car V3H & R-Car V4H SoCs, powers ADAS ICs for zonal and centralised vehicular ECUs. The IPs are scalable for a wide range of ADAS functions from ADAS L2+ up …

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As I have a government car and a chauffeur who ferries me around everywhere, I’m not much affected by the rail strike, Ed confides to his diary, Then the PM goes and buttonholes me after last week’s Cabinet. “Ed you have both the Technology brief and the Commerce brief so you should be able to …

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