The USB Implementers Forum has certified a USB-C source-sink IC pair and the associated reference designs for 140W (28V 5A) USB PD EPR (USB power delivery extended power range). “The new ICs extend the range of a universal charger to 140W,” according to STMicroelectronics, which has created the ICs and the designs. “Now, a single …

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Today, AWS announces the general availability of Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor, a feature of Amazon CloudWatch that helps you monitor internet availability and performance metrics between your AWS-hosted applications and application end users.

AWS Lake Formation is a service that makes it simple to set up a secure data lake in days. A data lake is a centralized, curated, and secure repository that stores your data, both in its original form and prepared for analysis. A data lake enables you to break down data silos and combine different types of analytics to gain insights and guide better decisions.

Amazon Elastic Container Services (Amazon ECS) now enables customers to delete inactive task definition revisions programmatically or via the Amazon ECS console. With this new capability, customers can permanently delete task definition revisions that are no longer needed or contain undesirable configurations, simplifying their resource management and improving security posture.

Amazon SageMaker Autopilot, a low-code machine learning (ML) service which automatically builds, trains and tunes the best ML models based on your data, now supports selection of underlying training algorithms while creating an Autopilot experiment. The ability to select algorithms provides you the flexibility to customize your AutoML journey and complete experiments much faster.

AWS Service Catalog customers can now disassociate and delete their AWS Service Catalog products in one-action, making it easier to update and manage their catalog of AWS resources.

Amazon Aurora Serverless v1 now allows you to select a specific window for scheduling a maintenance event. You can use the maintenance window to specify, for example, when your PostgreSQL 10 cluster gets upgraded to PostgreSQL 11. You can set the maintenance window with just a few clicks in the AWS Management Console or using the latest AWS SDK or CLI. Review the Aurora documentation to learn more. 

Smuggling has gone crazy, the grey market is booming like there’s no tomorrow, the semi companies and the disties are besieged by customers over-ordering and dodgy customers trying to get parts, I’ve never seen anything like it, Ed confides to his diary.  My department has a role to play  in this because, with so many …

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I just bought a sold-as-seen bench power supply, which has got a bit of a fault, which is turning into a saga. – a particularly unwanted saga, as the PSU was bought to help fix something else. Adjusting the current limit sometimes causes the PSU to oscillate (~105kHz). Attaching the (isolated) scope to the back …

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China has entered a ‘dark forest’ now it has been cut off from US  chip technology, says an article co-written by Luo Junwei, a researcher at the China Academy of Science (CAS) Institute of Semiconductors, and CAS vp Li Shushen. “Over the years, all the fundamental research achievements in the global semiconductor and micro-electronic sector …

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