Linear Technology’s founding threesome included the two greatest analogue designers in the history of the industry  – Bob Widlar and Bob Dobkin. The culture they established was one where the best people came and – what’s rarer – stayed. “Our general managers are all prepared to take a risk on products,” Dobkin told me, “we …

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Nexperia has bought the six year-old Netherlands energy harvesting specialist Nowi. Nowi’s PMICs combine the smallest PCB footprint with the lowest BOM cost and the best average harvesting performance, says Nexperia. The manufacturing capacity and capability of Nexperia as well as its global infrastructure will ensure that together, Nowi will be able to speed the production …

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AWS Backup now supports restoring VMware backups to Amazon EC2. This allows you to restore your VMware backups directly in EC2, as EC2 native instances. AWS Backup can restore to on-premises VMware, VMware CloudTM on AWS Outposts, VMware Cloud^TM on AWS, and Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS). AWS Backup also supports restoring virtual machines (VMs) at the VM-level or disk-level.

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for MySQL now supports MySQL minor version 5.7.40. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest minor versions to fix known security vulnerabilities in prior versions of MySQL, and to benefit from the numerous fixes, performance improvements, and new functionality added by the MySQL community.

Amazon SageMaker training jobs now support ml.trn1 instances, powered by AWS Trainium chips, which are purpose built for high-performance ML training applications in the cloud. You can use ml.trn1 instances on SageMaker to train natural language processing (NLP), computer vision, and recommender models across a broad set of applications, such as speech recognition, recommendation, fraud detection, image and video classification, and forecasting.

AWS Secrets Manager now supports higher request rates for the core set of API operations – GetSecretValue, DescribeSecret and ListSecrets. The request rate limits for GetSecretValue and DescribeSecret have been increased to 10,000 requests per second. The request rate of ListSecrets API operation has been increased to 100 requests per second. No action is required on your part, these increased API limits are available at no additional cost and will automatically be applied to your AWS accounts. These limit increases makes it easier for you to scale your Secrets Manager operations.

Today, we are introducing a new price and capacity optimized allocation strategy for Amazon EC2 Spot Instances to help you optimize provisioning of Spot Instances via EC2 Auto Scaling, EC2 Fleet, and Spot Fleet. The price and capacity optimized allocation strategy makes Spot allocation decisions based on both spare capacity availability and Spot Instance price. The price and capacity optimized allocation strategy is the best choice for most Spot applications such as big data, containerized workloads, CI/CD, web servers, image and media rendering, machine learning, and high performance computing (HPC). 

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for Oracle now supports the October 2022 Release Updates (RU) for Oracle Database 19c and Oracle Database 21c.

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) now supports two new addresses for the default gateway router for IPv6. With this launch, we now support the following addresses: $SUBNET::1 and FE80:EC2::1. These addresses can be used for static router configuration and within applications that are restricted to communicate with only global unicast addresses (GUA).

AWS CloudTrail announces the ability to use your own Customer Managed KMS Keys (CMK) to encrypt the activity logs stored in CloudTrail Lake. CloudTrail has always provided encryption by default using AWS owned KMS keys for all data stored in CloudTrail Lake. This feature provides you the option of adding a self-managed security layer to your activity logs to help you meet the compliance and regulatory requirements of your organization.