Weebit Nano has qualified its ReRAM module up to 125 degrees Celsius, the temperature specified for automotive grade 1 NVMs. This demonstrates the suitability of Weebit ReRAM for use in MCUs and other automotive components, as well as high-temperature industrial and IoT applications. The qualification, using Weebit’s demo chips manufactured by its R&D partner CEA-Leti, …

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Kubos Semiconductors, the Cambridge microLED material technology specialist, has won a £700,000 Future Economy Investor Partnerships (FEIP) grant from Innovate UK. The grant funding is subject to completing aligned investment led by the Development Bank of Wales. The company has also been granted its first process technology patents and has received its first customer order. …

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Scientists at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) have added its NPL-Sr1 optical frequency standard (pictured) to the mix for determining International Atomic Time (TAI). “Reaching this milestone represents a significant achievement for the team and stems from a huge effort from many people over many years,” said NPL head of time Professor Helen Margolis. “I …

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You can now access Claude 2, the latest version of Anthropic’s large language model (LLM), on Amazon Bedrock. Claude 2 can take up to 100,000 tokens in each prompt, meaning it can work over hundreds of pages of text, or even an entire book. Claude 2 can also write longer documents—on the order of a few thousand tokens—compared to its prior version, giving you even greater ways to develop generative AI applications using Amazon Bedrock.

Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor now allows you to customize thresholds for when to trigger a health event for the internet-facing traffic between your end users and your applications hosted on AWS. The default threshold for overall availability and performance scores to trigger a health event is 95%. Now, you can set a custom threshold for the availability score, performance score, or both. If your application is at or below the performance or availability threshold, you receive a notification of a health event that includes the impacted location and network provider (ASN). 

Starting today, customers can use Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose in the Israel (Tel Aviv) AWS Region.

Amazon Athena is a serverless, interactive analytics service built on open-source frameworks that supports open-table and file formats. Athena provides a simplified, flexible way to analyze petabytes of data. Athena is built on open-source Trino and Presto engines, with no provisioning or configuration effort required.

AWS open sourced the Amazon Redshift integration for Apache Spark to help Apache Spark developers seamlessly build and run Apache Spark applications on Amazon Redshift data. With this release, Amazon Redshift open-sources the Amazon Redshift contributions and integration for Apache Spark, empowering Spark developers to review the source code, extend it, contribute features and/or make modifications that meet their Spark application needs.

Amazon ElastiCache now supports Graviton3-based M7g and R7g node families. ElastiCache Graviton3 nodes deliver improved price-performance compared to Graviton2. As an example, when running ElastiCache for Redis on an R7g.4xlarge node, you can achieve up to 28% increased throughput (read and write operations per second) and up to 21% improved P99 latency, compared to running on R6g.4xlarge. In addition, these nodes deliver up to 25% higher networking bandwidth. 

AWS Managed Services (AMS) Accelerate Operations Plan is now available in Jakarta region. AMS helps you operate AWS efficiently and securely. It provides proactive, preventative, and detective capabilities that raise the operational bar and help reduce risk without constraining agility, allowing you to focus on innovation. AMS extends your team with operational capabilities including monitoring, incident detection and management, security, patch, backup, and cost optimization.