Renesas Electronics has signed a memorandum of understanding to acquire Sequans Communications, a developer and supplier of 5G and 4G IoT chips and modules. “Renesas will, following consultation of the Sequans’ works council and favourable recommendation by the Sequans Board, commence a tender offer to acquire all outstanding ordinary shares, including American depositary shares [ADS] …

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Infineon Technologies is aiming at automotive motors with driver ICs that combines gate drivers, a 60MHz Arm Cortex-M3 microcontroller, a 2Mbit/s CAN (FD) interface, a UART with LIN support, and motor current and voltage sensing. TLE988x are two-phase (H-bridge) devices TLE989x are three-phase devices “The ICs are AEC Q-100 qualified, making them ideal for automotive …

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Lexium is a cobot from Schneider Electric, intended to work alongside humans without a cage or other exclusion. Cobots – collaborative robots – need to be inherently safe around people, and as such need to be lightweight, move at moderate speed, not be too strong and have no sharp edges. “Traditional industrial robotic systems must …

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AWS Security Hub has released 12 new security controls, increasing the overall number of controls Security Hub offers to 276. With these new controls, Security Hub now supports three additional AWS services: Amazon Athena, Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility), and Amazon Neptune. Security Hub has also added an additional control against Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS). For the full list of recently-released controls and the AWS Regions in which they are available, visit the Security Hub user guide .

You can now connect your Apache Kafka applications to Amazon MSK Serverless in the Asia Pacific (Seoul), Europe (Paris), and Europe (London) AWS Regions.

Amazon Connect now provides you the ability to configure routing profiles to exclude all outbound call activity from setting the order in which inbound contacts are assigned to agents. Contact center managers can use this configuration to ensure that agents maintain their position in line to receive inbound calls and do not move to the bottom of the list when honoring their outbound call commitments. As a result, agents will continue to meet their outbound call goals while also receiving a fair share of inbound contacts.

Starting today, you can build, train, and deploy machine learning (ML) models in Israel (Tel Aviv) Region.

Amazon Interactive Video Service (Amazon IVS) now has the capability to deliver live streams with latency that can be under 300 millisecond from host to viewer, to an audience of up to 10,000 viewers.

Starting today, customers can use AWS Service Catalog in the AWS Israel (Tel Aviv) Region to create, govern, and manage a catalog of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) templates that are approved for use on AWS. These IaC templates can include everything from virtual machine images, servers, software, and databases to complete multi-tier application architectures. AWS Service Catalog helps you centrally curate and share commonly deployed templates across teams to achieve consistent governance and meet compliance requirements. End users such as engineers, database administrators, and data scientists simply see the list of products and versions they have access to, and can deploy them in a single action.

It’s time to get on-trend with the energy industry, Ed confides to his diary, clearly the climate people are on the back foot with governments rowing back on net zero, and some raiding their climate protection budgets to invest elsewhere. After sniffing the Whitehall wind and receiving a few helpful insider steers, Greaser and I …

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