(Updated) The X1 and X1e instance types provide a high ratio of memory to vCPU, with X1e providing the highest ratio among Amazon EC2 instance types. You can now use both to run Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for Oracle.

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL now supports PostgreSQL major version 10 in the AWS GovCloud (US) region. PostgreSQL 10 includes various new features including native table partitioning, support for improved parallelism in query execution, ICU collation support, column group statistics, enhanced postgres_fdw extension, and many more. Additionally, this release includes an upgraded version of the PLV8 extension and will have huge pages enabled by default.

You can now use Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) service discovery to discover and connect Amazon ECS tasks that use the bridge and host networking modes. This makes it easy to start using ECS service discovery for containerized applications running on Amazon ECS.

Starting today, AWS Batch is available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region via AWS CLI. Console support will be available on May 30.

AWS AppSync has expanded regional availability footprint now to the EU (Frankfurt), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), and Asia Pacific (Singapore) regions.

Lattice has introduced two hardware artificial intelligence algorithm accelerators for its FPGAs, one for binarised neural networks (BNNs) and one for convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Both are aimed at implement neural networks in consumer and industrial network-edge products. They are not suitable for network training, which must be done elsewhere. ‘Binarized neural network (BNN) accelerator’ supports …

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ST has published its 21st sustainability report – an annual report instituted to highlight and maintain the conpany’s commitment to the environment and sustainable growth. Highlights of the report for 2017 are: ST reinvested about 31% of total revenues in R&D and capex & development – an investment in innovation and future growth; ST strengthened …

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Micron is shipping the industry’s first SSD built on quad-level cell (QLC) NAND technology.

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Sony has bought out the other significant shareholder, Abu Dhabi’s Mubadala Group, from ownership of EMI Music Publishing as part of its transition strategy. Today, CEO Kenichiro Yoshida (pictured) is expected to announce Sony’s transition from being a hardware company to becoming a company based on gaming subscriptions, software, entertainment, content and services. Buying Mubadala’s …

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Kudelski Group, the Swiss security specialists, are to provide the security for u-blox’s IoT devices. Kudelski and u‑blox agreed to collaborate toward integrating the Kudelski IoT Security Suite into multiple u-blox product lines. “Digital transformation and IoT projects can only achieve their objectives if security is designed from the start, and a long-term, security lifecycle …

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