Starting today, you can use Common Access Card (CAC) and Personal Identity Verification (PIV) smart cards to authenticate users into Amazon WorkSpaces through your self-managed Active Directory (AD) and AWS Directory Service AD Connector in US East (Northern Virginia), US West (Oregon), Europe (Ireland), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and Asia Pacific (Sydney) Regions. Additionally, you can now use the AWS Management Console to configure smart card authentication with AWS Directory Service. Previously, smart card authentication with AD Connector for Amazon WorkSpaces was only supported in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region and could only be configured through the AWS Directory Service API or CLI.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the general availability of Amazon EC2 M6i instances, expanding the 6th generation EC2 instance portfolio to include x86-based compute options. Designed to provide a balance of compute, memory, storage, and network resources, M6i instances are built on the AWS Nitro System, a combination of dedicated hardware and lightweight hypervisor, which delivers practically all of the compute and memory resources of the host hardware to your instances. M6i instances are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (code named Ice Lake) with an all-core turbo frequency of 3.5 GHz, offer up to 15% better compute price performance over M5 instances, and always-on memory encryption using Intel Total Memory Encryption (TME). These instances are SAP-Certified and are ideal for workloads such as web and application servers, back-end servers supporting enterprise applications (e.g. Microsoft Exchange Server and SharePoint Server, SAP Business Suite, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, and PostgreSQL databases), gaming servers, caching fleets, as well as for application development environments. 

The best thing about semiconductor budgets is that they’re darn big, Ed confides to his diary, people expect hundreds of millions, even billions, in chip projects and HMG should not be lagging. It would be a crime to let a good crisis go to waste and, with the PM’s help, I’ve screwed a multi-hundred million …

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The CAN-FD protocol covers speeds up to 5 Mbit/s in automotive applications.

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The UK Space Agency (UKSA) has launched a business growth scheme open to budding space entrepreneurs, dubbed the Leo Programme. The focus of the accelerator programme is on building sustainable business models rather raising investment. Specifically, it is a free, six month virtual programme, designed to support up to 20 businesses that are “post proof-of-concept …

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The CMOS Image Sensor industry grew 7.3% YoY in 2020, reaching $20.7 billion, says Yole Développement, which forecasts the CIS market, to reach $31.5 billion by 2026. The CIS industry represents 4.7% of the $440 billion global semiconductor industry, this share stayed unchanged from 2019. Mobile remains the most important application for CIS, representing 68% of …

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In Q4, Transphorm and Salom, with help from Qualcomm, are to to bring to market a Quick Charge 5 compliant 100 watt GaN power adapter that will charge smartphones from 0 to 50% in five minutes. It will be a universal adapter offering the traditional power delivery mode and the USB-C programmable power supply (PPS) …

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Ventec of Leamington Spa is taking over exclusive distribution of Taiyo America products in the UK and Ireland and mainland Europe. From 01 October this year, Taiyo products will be supplied from Ventec’s distribution hubs in Germany and the United Kingdom. Taiyo America will continue to provide sales and technical support to its direct customers, …

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Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger is on a mission to get governments to invest in chip manufacturing, reports the Wall Street Journal, Gelsinger also has an internal Intel mission to return Intel to the leading of chip process technology  by 2025. The two missions are clearly complementary. Adding urgency to Gelsinger’s missions are worldwide concerns among …

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So lustrous was the name of Bob Widlar in the chip industry that, even though Widlar didn’t work for them Teledyne Semiconductor, which second-sourced Widlar-designed ICs, carried an ad which ran: “Godzilla, alias Bob Widlar, is the well known king of the linear IC underworld. Teledyne, on the other hand, is known as the semiconductor …

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