The AI boom is good news for the cloud services providers with Amazon’s $38 billion partnership with OpenAI helping it stay ahead of the pack. The partnership enables OpenAI to …

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The UK Space Agency (UKSA) has awarded Slingshot Aerospace an Optical Delivery Partner contract to expand the UK’s satellite tracking capabilities. The American company specialises in space domain awareness and …

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For its FY2025, Infineon had revenue 2% down y-o-y at €14.662 billion for a profit of €2.56 billion. For Q4, revenue was €3.943 billion for a profit of €717 million …

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RANSemi, the Bristol O-RAN baseband specialist, has collaborated with Gigalane, a leading Korean provider of RF solutions and systems, to develop a new O-RU (O-RAN Radio Unit) for Private 5G …

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XP Power has launched a host of GaN-based plug-in ac-dc power supplies rated between 65W and 140W. The basic types are: PGW65 wall-mount 65W (0.37W/cm3 – 6.06W/in3) PGW100 wall-mount 100W …

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Littelfuse has created a three pin magnetic switch that draws only 200nA and operates at up to 50Hz. Called LF21112TMR, the detector uses a combination of TMR (tunnelling magneto-resistance) sensing …

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Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the availability of high performance Storage Optimized Amazon EC2 I7i instances in the AWS Asia Pacific (Hyderabad), Canada (Central) regions. Powered by 5th generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors with an all-core turbo frequency 3.2 GHz, these new instances deliver up to 23% better compute performance and more than 10% better price performance over previous generation I4i instances. Powered by 3rd generation AWS Nitro SSDs, I7i instances offer up to 45TB of NVMe storage with up to 50% better real-time storage performance, up to 50% lower storage I/O latency, and up to 60% lower storage I/O latency variability compared to I4i instances.

I7i instances offer the best compute and storage performance for x86-based storage optimized instances in Amazon EC2, ideal for I/O intensive and latency-sensitive workloads that demand very high random IOPS performance with real-time latency to access the small to medium size datasets (multi-TBs). Additionally, torn write prevention feature support up to 16KB block sizes, enabling customers to eliminate database performance bottlenecks. I7i instances also support real-time, high-resolution performance statistics for the NVMe instance store volumes attached to them. To learn more, visit the detailed NVMe performance statistics page .

I7i instances are available in eleven sizes – nine virtual sizes up to 48xlarge and two bare metal sizes – delivering up to 100Gbps of network bandwidth and 60Gbps of Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) bandwidth.
To learn more, visit the I7i instances page .

Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) now supports Logged Batches, enabling you to perform multiple write operations as a single atomic transaction. With Logged Batches, you can ensure that either all operations (INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE) within a batch succeed or none of them do, maintaining data consistency across multiple rows and tables within a keyspace. This capability is particularly valuable for applications that require strong data consistency, such as financial systems, inventory management, and user profile updates that span multiple data entities.

Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra) is a scalable, highly available, and managed Apache Cassandra–compatible database service. Amazon Keyspaces is serverless, so you pay for only the resources that you use and you can build applications that serve thousands of requests per second with virtually unlimited throughput and storage.

Logged Batches in Amazon Keyspaces provide the same atomicity guarantees as Apache Cassandra while eliminating the operational complexity of managing transaction logs across distributed clusters. It’s designed to scale automatically with your workload and maintain consistent performance regardless of transaction volume. The feature integrates seamlessly with existing Cassandra Query Language (CQL) statements, allowing for adoption in both new and existing applications.

Logged Batches are available today in all AWS Commercial and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions where Amazon Keyspaces is available. You pay only for the standard write operations processed within each batch. To learn more about Logged Batches, please visit our blog post or refer to our Amazon Keyspaces documentation .

Mountpoint for Amazon S3 is now available in Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023), simplifying how you get started and manage updates. Previously, you had to download the Mountpoint package from GitHub, install dependencies, and manually manage updates. Now, when using AL2023, you can install or update to the latest release of Mountpoint with a single command, and mount an Amazon S3 bucket.

Mountpoint for Amazon S3 is an open source project backed by AWS support, giving AWS Business and Enterprise Support customers 24/7 access to AWS cloud support engineers. To learn more and get started, visit GitHub , the Mountpoint overview page , the installation guide and AL2023 overview page .

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C8gd instances are now available in Europe (London), and Canada (Central) AWS Regions. Additionally, M8gd instances are available in South America (Sao Paulo) and R8gd instances are available in Europe (London) AWS Region. These instances feature up to 11.4 TB of local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage and are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors, delivering up to 30% better performance over Graviton3-based instances. They have up to 40% higher performance for I/O intensive database workloads, and up to 20% faster query results for I/O intensive real-time data analytics than comparable AWS Graviton3-based instances. These instances are built on the AWS Nitro System and are a great fit for applications that need access to high-speed, low latency local storage.

Each instance is available in 12 different sizes. They provide up to 50 Gbps of network bandwidth and up to 40 Gbps of bandwidth to the Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS). Additionally, customers can now adjust the network and
Amazon EBS bandwidth on these instances by 25% using EC2 instance bandwidth weighting configuration, providing greater flexibility with the allocation of bandwidth resources to better optimize workloads. These instances offer Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) networking on 24xlarge, 48xlarge, metal-24xl, and metal-48xl sizes.

To learn more, see Amazon C8gd instances , M8gd instances , R8gd instances . To explore how to migrate your workloads to Graviton-based instances, see AWS Graviton Fast Start program and Porting Advisor for Graviton . To get started, see the AWS Management Console .