Stewart Edmondson, CEO at UK Electronics Skills Foundation (UKESF), shares his experience of supporting more than 750 undergraduates through the UKESF Scholarship Scheme. He considers how employers can de-risk their graduate recruitment process… Ash Madni, in his recent Viewpoint piece in Electronics Weekly (26 April 2023 edition), provided interview tips for graduate engineers. He said, …

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Q1 DRAM revenues were down 21.2% q-o-q, reports TrendForce, at $9.663 billion – the third quarter in a row for revenues to fall. Micron was the only supplier to increase shipments. The Big Three all had ASP declines. Q2 should see a rise in shipments, predicts TrendForce, but further declines in ASP won’t increase revenues. …

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Sam Altman (pictured right) CEO of OpenAI, has raised $115 million to start a crypto company which could, one day, provide an income for everyone on the planet. In a world where AI may eliminate work, a universal basic income may become needed and the startup, called Tools for Humanity, could provide this income using …

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AMD is aiming at automotive edge sensor fusion, for the likes of lidar, radar and 3D surround cameras, with a pair of FPGAs it has just started shipping. XA AU10P and XA AU15P are automotive-qualified, certified for functional safety up to ASIL-B, intended to be used in driver assistance systems, and come with the the …

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An Imperial College prototype quantum accelerometer has been tested on a Royal Navy ship. The accelerometer uses ultra-cold atoms, whose wave-like properties allow them to be measured accurately by lasers as they move under acceleration. Quantum accelerometers and gyros are of enormous interest for inertial navigation systems as the quantum nature of the parameters measured …

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AWS AppSync enables developers to build serverless, scalable and performant GraphQL APIs that are designed to securely connect their apps to data and events. Today, we announce the general availability of Merged APIs, which enable GraphQL schema composition and federation for AppSync APIs.

Today, AWS CloudFormation has expanded the availability of StackSets to Asia Pacific (Melbourne), Europe (Spain), and Europe (Zurich) Regions. With this launch, customers can deploy their stack sets to and from these newly supported AWS Regions.

Amazon Cognito now offers a new console experience that makes it even easier for customers to manage Amazon Cognito identity pools and add federated sign in for customers’ applications to get access to AWS resources. Customers that wish to opt in to the new, streamlined experience can do so by navigating to the Amazon Cognito console.

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for PostgreSQL now supports the latest minor versions PostgreSQL 15.3, 14.8, 13.11, 12.15, and 11.20. We recommend you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of PostgreSQL, and to benefit from bug fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by the PostgreSQL community. Please refer to the PostgreSQL community announcement for more details about the release.

Starting today, Amazon SageMaker JumpStart provides the capability to fine-tune a large language model, particularly a text generation model on a domain-specific data set. Customers can now fine-tune models with their custom data set to improve performance in specific domains. For example, this blog describes how to use domain adaption to fine tune a GPT-J 6B model on publicly available financial data from the Security and Exchange Commission so that the model can generate more relevant text for financial services use cases. Customers can fine-tune Foundation Models such as GPT-J 6B and GPT-J 6B FP16 models for domain adaptation on JumpStart inside Amazon SageMaker Studio through UI, and through SageMaker Python SDK.