Today, AWS announced the opening of a new AWS Direct Connect location within the Cologix VAN3 data center in Vancouver, Canada. By connecting your network to AWS at the new Vancouver location, you gain private, direct access to all public AWS Regions (except those in China), AWS GovCloud Regions, and AWS Local Zones. This is the sixth AWS Direct Connect site within Canada and the second site in the Vancouver area.

Amazon Textract is a managed machine learning service that automatically extracts text, handwriting, and data from any document or image. We regularly improve the underlying machine learning models based on customer feedback to provide even better accuracy. Today, we are pleased to announce quality enhancements to our Forms feature available via the AnalyzeDocument API.

Starting now, Amazon EC2 adds service quotas for Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. You will see three new quotas in the EC2 section on the Service Quotas console page. The first quota is for the total number of AMIs within your AWS account, the second quota is for the total number of public AMIs within your AWS account, and the third quota is on the number of shares you can have for each AMI. These quotas are added by default for all AWS accounts and do not require any action from you. Each quota is per AWS account per AWS Region.

Amazon Redshift announces enhancements to Redshift Advisor to generate smarter and faster sort and distribution key recommendations. With the enhancements, Redshift Advisor uses new machine learning models to make these recommendations sooner, without needing to observe minimum necessary workload. Both sort and distribution key recommendations continue to be applied through Redshift automatic table optimizations, making it easier and faster to achieve better query performance. 

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C7g and M7g instances are powered by AWS Graviton3 processors that provide up to 25% better compute performance compared to AWS Graviton2 processors, and built on top of the the AWS Nitro System, a collection of AWS designed innovations that deliver efficient, flexible, and secure cloud services. Starting today, these instances are available in AWS Region Europe (London).

What caught David Manners’ eye this week was Pragmatic, the Cambridge flexible chip manufacturer, raising $206 million.

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If you missed the time of the live webinar by Rochester Electronics – about avoiding re-designs caused by premature semiconductor obsolescence – you can still view the important conversation.

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On May 1 1959 a patent application was filed which opened with the statement: “The present invention relates to an improvement in the manufacture of semiconductor devices including transistors and …

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You need to be an optimist to work in the semiconductor industry was one of the sayings of Pasquale Pistorio.  A similarly  successful and optimistic CEO, Jensen Huang, told the …

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Guerrilla RF is sampling a low noise amplifier that delivers an exceptionally flat gain response over a single 5 to 8 GHz broadband tune. When operated at 6 GHz, the …

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