We are pleased to announce Terraform support for Amazon OpenSearch Serverless deployments. OpenSearch Serverless is the serverless option for Amazon OpenSearch Service that makes it easier for you to run search and analytics workloads without having to think about infrastructure management. Terraform enables OpenSearch Serverless deployments as infrastructure as code(IaC). Using Terraform for deployments, you can ensure that the configurations are measured and validated, minimizing the chances of errors caused by human oversight.

Starting today, the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Inf2 instances are generally available in the US West (Oregon) region. These instances deliver high performance at the lowest cost in Amazon EC2 for generative AI models.

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL now supports MySQL minor versions 5.7.43 and 8.0.34. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of MySQL, and to benefit from the bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by the MySQL community.

Although, last week, Apple reported its third consecutive quarter of declining sales its services revenue was a record. Total sales, at $82 billion, were down 1.4% y-o-y but, without the services revenue, the decline would have been at 4.4%. While iPhone sales fell 2% to $39.7 billion, Mac sales fell by 7% to $6.8 billion, …

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This is an interesting one I saw on the Iridium website recently: the Mayflower Autonomous Ship is an automated, uncrewed vessel designed to sail across the Atlantic without human intervention. It’s an Uncrewed Surface Vessel (USV), to give it its proper name, that sought to recreate a famous journey. And leaving Plymouth on 27 April …

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Thanks to Omdia for this one – the top ten semiconductor companies in Q1:

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Crocus Technology, the  Tunnel Magnetoresistance (TMR) sensor specialist, has been bought by Allegro MicroSystems for $420 million in cash. “This highly complementary acquisition aligns perfectly with Allegro’s growth initiatives and our focus on e-mobility, clean energy and automation,” says Allegro CEO Vineet Nargolwala. “We expect to accelerate the adoption of TMR in targeted automotive and industrial …

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Korean 5G ORAN equipment maker Contela has picked Picocom of Bristol UK to supply NR/LTE baseband silicon. PC802 ICs will be used with Picocom’s related PHY software in Contela’s Open RAN ‘distributed units’ (O-DUs) and ‘radio units’ (O-RUs). “Contela is confident in its ability to deliver Open RAN wireless products to its customers and help …

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Austrian ac-dc power supply and dc-dc converter manufacturer, Recom, has been added to Waldom Electronics’ line card. Recom is also part of Waldom’s Excess Inventory Management Solutions, whereby manufacturers send excess inventory to the wholesale distributor which it sells to its network of distributors to make a range of products available at reduced minimum order …

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CEVA has added two IP cores to fill-out its NeuPro-M family of neural processing units, and boosted its architecture with for generative AI algorithms. “NeuPro-M NPU architecture and tools have been redesigned to support transformer networks in addition to convolutional neural networks,” according to the company. “This enables applications leveraging the capabilities of generative and …

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