300mm fab capacity will reach 9.6 million wpm in 2026, says SEMI’s  300mm Fab Outlook to 2026 report. “While the pace of the global 300mm fab capacity expansion is moderating, the industry remains squarely focused on growing capacity to meet robust secular demand for semiconductors,” says Ajit Manocha, SEMI President and CEO, “the foundry, memory …

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Ahead of today’s vote on the EU’s ban on the sale of new ICE cars after 2035, the EU is reported to have bowed to pressure from Germany to allow an exception in the case of ICE cars using synthetic fuels. “We have found an agreement with Germany on the future of e-fuels in cars,” …

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One of the managers rounded up by Beijing to answer for the failure of China’s effort to establish a leading edge chip industry, has been set free after eight months in detention, reports the FT.  A number of fund managers and officials are under ‘investigation’ by the China government for the lack of success of …

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We caught up with Panasonic Industry in Nuremberg at Embedded World 2023 as part of our promotional coverage for the event. Benno Kirschenhofer – Communication Manager, Corporate Marketing Division, Panasonic Industry Europe GmbH – discusses being involved in the connectivity ecosystem that makes a smart world more sustainable, part of the company’s green impact initiative. …

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LEM has created a current sensor specifically for Coulomb counting in electric vehicles. CAB 1500 is an automotive grade open-loop flux-gate transducer, aimed at compliance with ISO 26262 ASIL C functional safety. Range is ±1.5kA and the sensor is compatible with 800V applications to IEC 60664-1. Galvanic isolation is up to 2.5kV, and total error …

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Today we are launching the Amazon Chime SDK integration with Amazon Lex for chatbots, enabling builders to develop persistent conversational chat interfaces using a simplified architecture. The Amazon Chime SDK lets developers add real-time audio, video, screen-sharing, and chat capabilities to their web or mobile applications. Amazon Lex provides automatic speech recognition and natural language understanding technologies so you can build conversational interfaces. 

AWS Application Migration Service (AWS MGN) now supports new migration and modernization features, including import/export of source environment inventory lists, a server migration status dashboard, and new application modernization actions. Application Migration Service helps minimize manual processes by automating the conversion of your source servers to run natively on AWS with optional modernization features.

Amazon Chime SDK now offers real-time call analytics to help businesses extract insights from voice conversations. Machine learning (ML) powers call insights include speaker search and voice tone analysis. Customers can gain additional ML-powered intelligence such as turn-by-turn transcripts, customer and agent sentiment, through integrations with Amazon Transcribe and Amazon Transcribe Call Analytics. These insights can be consumed in real-time and after completion of a call, by accessing a data lake, and they can be visualized using tools such as Amazon QuickSight. Additionally, businesses can record voice conversations to the S3 bucket of their choice.

AWS Launch Wizard now allows you to automate deployment of the SAP NetWeaver JAVA Stack application. This launch expands on existing Launch Wizard capabilities that allow you to automate deployment of solutions including SAP HANA database, SAP NetWeaver, SAP BW/4HANA, and SAP S/4HANA in accordance with AWS, SAP, and operating system vendor best practices.

AWS Glue Crawler now supports enhanced crawl capabilities in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, simplifying running Crawlers with AWS Lake Formation, discovering datasets, and populating schema in the AWS Glue Data Catalog.