STMicroelectronics is planning integrated silicon carbide substrate manufacturing facility on the Italian island of Sicily to support demand for SiC ICs from automotive and industrial customers. “Production is expected to start in 2023, enabling a balanced supply of SiC substrate between internal and merchant supply,” said the company, which is planning to reach 40% internal …

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AWS Backup now offers a new Backup Vault Lock console experience that provides you a more intuitive way to configure your vault lock details. AWS Backup Vault Lock allows you to deploy and manage your vault’s immutability policies, protecting your backups from accidental or malicious deletions. Depending on your data retention needs, with AWS Backup Vault Lock, you can set governance mode or compliance mode to configure your vault’s immutability policies with greater flexibility and multiple levels of security. Under governance mode, users with the appropriate role-based permissions can test and change retention policies or even remove the lock completely. In compliance mode, the user can specify a lock date after which the vault is locked immutably. Once locked, the acceptable retention periods cannot be changed and the lock cannot be disabled even by the root user. With this feature, the console also provides you with visibility into into your vaults’ lock status and facilitates reporting across all locked vaults. 

Starting today, Amazon EC2 High Memory instances with 3TiB (u-3tb1.56xlarge), 6TiB (u-6tb1.56xlarge, u-6tb1.112xlarge), 9TiB (u-9tb1.112xlarge), and 12TiB of memory (u-12tb1.112xlarge) are available in Asia Pacific (Tokyo) region. Customers can start using these new High Memory instances with On Demand and Savings Plan purchase options.

Starting today, AWS Cloud WAN is available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region.

Amazon Redshift Serverless now supports tagging of resources such as namespace and workgroup. Tagging allows you to assign a key-value pair to your resources and organize them by business departments, billing groups, and production environments.

Amazon WorkMail now offers Impersonation Roles, a secure way to more easily grant programmatic access to mailboxes. Customers can use Impersonation Roles with Exchange Web Services (EWS) to perform impersonated actions in other users’ mailboxes. Administrators have the ability to limit the scope of Impersonation Roles to specific users, including choosing whether actions have full or read-only access.

As of November 23, 2021, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) supported Server-Side Encryption with Amazon SQS-managed encryption keys (SSE-SQS) to protect sensitive data. Today, Amazon SQS announces SSE-SQS encryption by default for newly created queues. SSE-SQS can help you build security-sensitive applications to support your encryption compliance and regulatory requirements.

Starting today, you can now budget by two new dimensions, invoicing entity and legal entity, in AWS Budgets. This additional granularity allows you to setup specific budget thresholds according to your invoice issuer using invoicing entity or AWS Marketplace seller using legal entity. Once you’ve saved your budget, you can then receive alerts when your actual costs exceed (or are forecasted to exceed) your budget thresholds. AWS Budgets is generally available in all public AWS Regions.

Amazon Aurora Serverless v2, the next version of Aurora Serverless, now supports AWS CloudFormation. You can use AWS CloudFormation templates to deploy and modify Aurora Serverless v2 along with the rest of your AWS infrastructure in a secure, efficient, and repeatable manner. To learn more, read the AWS CloudFormation user guide .

Earlier today Samsung said it aims to triple its foundry business for advanced ICs by 2027. It is planning to have 2nm chips in volume production in 2025 and 1.4 nm by 2027. The company is currently talking to Qualcomm, Tesla and AMD about contracts for the 3nm process which will switch to GAA transistors …

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