There’s a move of production out of China, a list of top MEMS manufacturers, funding for an Israeli AI processor startup, Seeed’s “essential” accessories for the Raspberry Pi 4 and Huawei supply ban being lifted

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“So you’re leaving Motorola to join SGS?” asked John Welty, CEO of Motorola Semiconductors. ”Yes John,” replied Pasquale Pistorio. “Is SGS a goid company? Is it in great shape?” ”No John, they are losing their shirt. They are really in difficulties.” .”I see. Well  is Italy a very nice environment to work in? ”No John, …

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The collaboration is designed to speed market delivery and broaden the diversified 3D product range for mobile, computing, consumer and automotive application areas Collaborating with SmartSens will complement AMS’ strategy to further broaden its portfolio for all three 3D technologies – active stereo vision (ASV), time-of-flight (ToF) and structured light (SL). To quickly meet an …

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Starting today, AWS WAF and AWS Shield Advanced are available in four new regions: EU (Paris), Canada (Central), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), and South America (Sao Paulo). 

Amazon DocumentDB is a fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed document database service that supports MongoDB workloads. 

AWS now supports China based customers, who use services in US commercial regions, to pay their invoices from Amazon Web Services, Inc. (“AWS Inc.”) in Chinese Yuan through a China UnionPay credit card.  

Following the recent announcement of updates to the PostgreSQL database , we have updated Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL to support PostgreSQL minor versions. This release contains an important security fix and also bug fixes and improvements done by the PostgreSQL community. 

With this release, pg_hint_plan extension has been updated for PostgreSQL versions 11, 10, 9.6 and 9.5.

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale PostgreSQL deployments in the cloud. Learn more about upgrading your database instances from the Amazon RDS User Guide . See Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Pricing  for pricing details and regional availability.

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) now performs checks to confirm compatibility of your MySQL 5.7 database with MySQL 8.0, and stops the upgrade if incompatibilities are found.  

You can now share your Amazon Aurora DB clusters with other AWS accounts for quick and efficient database cloning.