Thanks to IDC for this one – the top five smartphone vendors in Q2 with shipments in millions of units Samsung  58 Apple        46.4 Xiaomi.     …

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Infineon and Nvidia are working together to accelerate  the development of humanoid robotics. The  combination of Infineon’s expertise in MCUs, sensors, and smart actuators with Nvidia’s Jetson Thor Series modules, …

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Open RAN has made significant progress since the O-RAN Alliance was formed in 2018 to “reshape the RAN industry and ecosystem towards more intelligent, open, virtualized, and interoperable networks”, says …

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Qualcomm has announced Dragonwing  Q-6690  claimed to be the  first enterprise mobile processor to feature integrated UHF RFID capabilities. The processor has built-in 5G, Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6.0, and UWB, …

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Navitas Semiconductor will have a new president and CEO on the first of September, as Chris Allexandre takes over from company founder Gene Sheridan. “On behalf of the Board of …

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Prophesee, the event-based neuromorphic vision system maker, has launched  the GenX320 Starter Kit for Raspberry Pi 5, making its frameless sensing technology available to the Raspberry Pi developer community for …

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TDK has created a SMD inductor particularly for the bias-tee (bias-T) circuits used to split RF signals and dc power from, or combine them onto, a single line. “The component …

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Software entrepreneur, champion of woman’s employment and philanthropist Dame Stephanie ‘Steve’ Shirley has died after a short illness. “As one of the early prominent female industry luminaries, Dame Stephanie was …

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Powered by Nvidia’s Blackwell GPU, the Jetson AGX Thor offers 7.5x more AI compute and 3.5x greater energy efficiency than its predecessor, Jetson Orin. The development kit is designed for …

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Amazon RDS for MariaDB now supports MariaDB major version 11.8, the latest long-term maintenance release from the MariaDB community. This release supports MariaDB 11.8.3 minor version.

Amazon RDS for MariaDB 11.8 now supports the MariaDB Vector feature, allowing you to store vector embeddings in your database and use retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) when building your Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications. You can use MariaDB Vector to build generative AI capabilities into your e-commerce, media, health applications, and more to find similar items within a catalog. MariaDB 11.8 also introduces the ability to limit maximum size of temporary files and tables, allowing you to better manage your databases’ storage and prevent potential issues caused by oversized temporary objects. Learn more about these community enhancements in the MariaDB 11.8 release notes and RDS MariaDB release notes .

You can initiate a major version upgrade by manually modifying your DB cluster , by restoring a snapshot or by leveraging Amazon RDS Managed Blue/Green deployments to upgrade your databases to RDS for MariaDB 11.8. Learn more about upgrading your database instances in the Amazon RDS User Guide . Amazon RDS for MariaDB 11.8 is available in all AWS regions where RDS MariaDB is available.

Amazon RDS for MariaDB makes it straightforward to set up, operate, and scale MariaDB deployments in the cloud. Create or update a fully managed Amazon RDS for MariaDB 11.8 database in the Amazon RDS Management Console .