Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the general availability of the new compute optimized Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C6id instances. C6id instances are powered by third generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code name Ice Lake) with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz, equipped with up to 7.6 TB of local NVMe-based solid state drive (SSD) block level storage, and deliver up to 15% better price performance compared to C5d instances. Compared to previous generation instances, C6id instances offer up to 138% higher TB storage per vCPU and 56% lower cost per TB. C6id instances also come with always-on memory encryption by using Intel Total Memory Encryption (TME). Like all modern EC2 instances, C6id instances are built on AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor, which delivers most of the compute and memory resources of the host hardware to your instances. C6id instances are ideal for compute-intensive workloads, including those that need access to high-speed, low-latency local storage, such as video encoding, image manipulation, and other forms of media processing. C6id instances will also benefit applications that need temporary storage of data, such as batch and log processing, and applications that need caches and scratch files.

There’s something of Ozymandias about this one from a Martian desert, taken by NASA’s Mars Ingenuity helicopter. Look on my works, ye mighty…

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For Steve Bush it was the Cortex-M85, which has Arm’s Helium extensions for scalar, DSP and machine learning acceleration, plus TrustZone and ‘pointer authentication/branch target identification’…

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There was once a famous scientist who was put in charge of developing a nuclear bomb by Adolf Hitler. Famous for Uncertainty, the scientist has left people uncertain to this day whether he made his best efforts to make the bomb or whether he worked to make sure it would never get made by Germany. …

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CUI Devices has announced a collection of IP67 rated waterproof tactile switches. They are: TS03 (left of picture) 6x6mm, 5-9.5mm actuator, 160 – 260g force, through-hole TS05 6×6 mm, 4.3-8mm actuator, 100-260g force, surface-mount TS08 (right of picture) 6x6mm, 4.3mm actuator, 160g force, surface-mount TS19 3x2mm, 0.6mm actuator, 70-240g force, surface-mount All are SPST (single-pole …

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NMITE, the UK’s new Higher Education Institution aimed specifically at engineering, has expanded its courses with a BEng (Hons.) Integrated Engineering degree. Based in Hereford, it had already welcomed its first students onto an MEng Integrated Engineering course in September 2021. The delivery of the BEng course will be similar to the MEng, says NMITE, …

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UK connector sales growth slowed in Q1 of 2022 but orders accelerated, says ITSA. Headline performances: – Q1 2022 revenues decreased slightly by 7% over Q4 of 2021, however they are still up 9% as a run rate over 2021. Member’s revenues are back at +12% over pre pandemic levels Book to Bill is incredibly …

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Siemens Digital Industries Software announced today availability of its leading Nucleus ReadyStart solution for embedded development targeting the fast-growing adoption of the RISC-V architecture. Building on one of the industry’s first commercial real-time operating systems (RTOSes) for RISC-V devices, released in 2021, Siemens’ newest Nucleus ReadyStart embedded development solution includes a host of new features …

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Another investigation on national security grounds is to be held into the sale of Newport Wafer Fab to Nexperia which is a subsidiary of the Chinese company Wingtech. Kwasi Kwarteng, Secretary of State for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy announced the investigation via a tweet. “There will now be a full assessment under the new …

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Power Integrations is aiming at 135W USB-C power delivery adapters using a zero-voltage switching fly-back converter IC and partner primary-side active-clamp IC. “The use of a non-complementary-mode active clamp enables designs that work in both continuous and discontinuous modes,” said company marketing manager Edward Ong”. “By operating across modes, it is much easier to support …

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