We’re excited to announce the launch of VMware Cloud on AWS in the AWS Cape Town region. This launch marks the 22nd AWS region to support VMware Cloud on AWS and provides customers running VMware-based workloads a faster and more seamless path to migrate to the cloud. 

NoSQL Workbench for Amazon DynamoDB now supports creating data models directly from sample data model templates to help you design data schemas for your workloads. You can use this feature to get familiar with NoSQL data modeling best practices when building your applications on DynamoDB.

NoSQL Workbench for Amazon DynamoDB now includes a guided DynamoDB Local installation process to streamline setting up your DynamoDB local development environment. You can use this new feature to build, test, and deploy workloads on DynamoDB more quickly.

AWS Snow Family Large Data Migration Manager (LDMM) is now available in Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Europe (Milan), and Africa (Cape Town) Regions. Snow Large Data Migration Manager enables you to plan, track, and manage your large data migrations when using multiple Snowball Edge devices. You can now easily plan and monitor your jobs from a minimum of 500 Terabytes to Petabytes scale data migrations.

Today, AWS IoT Device Defender launched  a new audit check AWS IoT policy potentially misconfigured to identify certain potential misconfigurations in IoT policies. Security misconfigurations such as overly permissive policies can be a major cause of security incidents. With this new audit check in AWS IoT Device Defender, you can now more easily identify flaws, troubleshoot issues, and take the necessary corrective actions. 

Interest in ~30V half-bridge drivers is increasing here in wonderland, with the Nat Semi LM2725, LM2726 and LM2722 particularly attractive for their automatic dead-band adjustment, 4V minimum operating voltage and easy-to-handle packages. Sadly, they are all also obsolete. Their successor, the LM27222, now from TI obviously, is not at all obsolete, and has some additional …

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Sometimes in elite-level sport, a millimeter can make the difference between failure and success. Yesterday’s World Cup games in group E proved this in painful and glorious fashion for Germany and Japan, respectively. Japan’s winning goal against Spain, which meant World Cup giants Germany crashed out at the group stage for the second time running …

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Q3 O-RAN revenues have doubled y-o-y according to the Q3 2022 report from Dell’Oro Group. Report highlights include: Top 4 Open RAN revenue suppliers for the 1Q22-3Q22 period include Samsung, Fujitsu, NEC, and Mavenir. Trials are on the rise globally, however, North America and the Asia Pacific regions are still dominating the commercial revenue mix …

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Zuken and the Compound Semiconductor Applications (CSA) Catapult are collaborating to bring a power module layout from a graphical concept to a 3D model. CSA Catapult has identified several requirements and optimisations to Zuken’s CR-8000 Design Force chip, package and PCB co-design software that will provide designers of power electronic products with the ability to …

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Yesterday, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) commissioned a research project to look into the feasibility of new national initiatives to bring the UK semiconductor industry together to tackle shared challenges and help businesses scale up. It will look at whether better access to prototyping and manufacturing facilities for chip firms is …

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