Today, we are announcing the availability of Optimize CPUs for Amazon EC2 instances. This feature provides customers greater control of their EC2 instances on two fronts. First, customers can specify a custom number of vCPUs when launching new instances to save on vCPU-based licensing costs. Second, they can disable Intel Hyper-Threading Technology (Intel HT Technology) for workloads that perform well with single-threaded CPUs, like certain high-performance computing (HPC) applications.

Starting today, you can use AWS Budgets to monitor how much of your Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS, Amazon Redshift, and Amazon ElastiCache instance usage is covered by reservations, and receive alerts when your coverage falls below the threshold you define.

Amazon Lex is a service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text. With Amazon Lex, the same deep learning technologies that power Amazon Alexa are now available to any developer, enabling you to quickly and easily build sophisticated, natural language, conversational bots (“chatbots”).  

UltraSoC says its  embedded analytics IP has been selected by Esperanto Technologies the developer of massively parallel and many–core RISC-V SoCs. Esperanto is now integrating UltraSoC’s embedded analytics and debug technology into Esperanto’s high-performance and energy-efficient ‘A.I. Supercomputer on a Chip’ that employs thousands of 64-bit RISC-V cores, to serve advanced applications in artificial intelligence (AI) and …

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iPhoneX was the best selling smartphone in Q1; says Strategy Analytics, shipping 16 million units out of a total market of 345 million units. IPhone X.                               16 IPhone 8.                         …

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58 years ago, when this ad appeared in Electronics Weekly’s edition of October 19th 1960, companies clearly spent a lot less money on creating ads but possibly put more thought and wit into them:  

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Later today the House of Lords Communications Committee will continue hearing evidence for its inquiry The Internet: to regulate or not to regulate? The Committee will question Doteveryone, a think tank which champions responsible technology for the good of society; the Internet Society which is dedicated to ensuring that the internet stays open and transparent; …

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Mediatek has been given permission by the Taiwan government to sell chips to ZTE. The decision gives Mediatek a leg up on mobile processor rival Qualcomm which has been blocked by the US government from selling chips to ZTE for seven years – a decision which ZTE has appealed against in a  submission  to the …

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Arm’s owner, Softbank, has more debt than Venezuela – $147 billion for Softbank, $140 billion for Venezuela. Softbank has been able to raise all this debt by offering its holding in Alibaba as collateral. The holding is worth $130 billion. However the holding is not in readily realisable shares or bonds – it is in …

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AMS has announced its best colour sensor yet, to the point that: it has the “highest sensitivity and widest dynamic range of any XYZ sensor on the market”, claims company marketing manager Markus Busz. Called AS73211, it uses integrated interference-filter-on-glass technology to offer “light and colour measurements closely matching a typical human eye’s perception of …

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