Earlier this month, we announced that you can now opt in to receive longer format resource IDs before the permanent switch to longer IDs after June 2018. Today, we are publishing AMIs with longer IDs for you to use to test your systems. These are secondary versions of existing AMIs to be used for testing purposes only:

The PostgreSQL-compatible edition of Amazon Aurora is now available in 11 regions. With the addition of the EU (London) AWS Region, you have a new option for database placement, availability, and scalability.

Beginning today, you can use a new Amazon Route 53 Auto Naming API to update the health status of service instances manually. After you register a service instance with a new custom health check configuration, you can call the new API to mark the service instance healthy and start routing traffic to it. Alternatively, you can set the health status to “unhealthy,” and Route 53 will stop routing traffic to this service instance.

You now have more options to configure and deploy REST APIs using the AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM). You can now configure logging, metrics, CORS, and regional endpoints for Amazon API Gateway resources in your AWS SAM template. You can also configure APIs that support binary data and you can define method settings like throttling limits and CacheTTL. Visit the release notes for more details on these new features.

A 3,000sq ft laboratory devoted to proving the design and serviceability of silicon semiconductor devices has been established by Ferranti Ltd., in their Gem Mill factory at Oldham, Lancashire. So, 57 years ago, started a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of March 15th 1961. The story continues: A team of engineers is engaged in the …

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Fab equipment spending will increase 9% this year  and 5% in 2019 to record a fourth consecutive year of growth, says SEMI.   China is expected to be the main driver of fab equipment spending growth in 2018 and 2019 absent a major change in its plans. The industry had not seen three consecutive years …

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President Trump has issued an executive order  blocking Broadcom’s bid for Qualcomm. The order cannot be appealed. In a highly unusual move the President ordered Broadcom to abandon its $130 billion bid for for the San Diego wireless giant. The presidential order stated “there is credible evidence”  that Broadcom through control of Qualcomm “might take action …

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Xilinx is demo-ing  112G PAM4 electrical signaling technology for optical networks and adding 58G PAM4 transceivers to its 16nm Virtex UltraScale+ portfolio. The  transition to 58G and 112G transceivers is a step towards 400G and 800G+ data rates on the same existing footprint. Xilinx is demonstrating full-duplex 112G PAM4 signaling on a single lane.  112Gb/s …

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The decision to ban the Broadcom bid for Qualcomm is undoubtedly correct. No one has much love for Qualcomm – it has been too grasping and too greedy to be liked – but it has the best mobile technology on the planet. Would Broadcom have maintained that supremacy or let it slip away to Huawei? …

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It stretches the meaning of smart, wearable technology when you can thread in an antenna as part of the weaving process…

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