Japan’s public-private bail-out fund Japan Investment Corp (JIC) is in talks with Bain about forming a consortium to bid for Toshiba. The move follows  the break-up of a partnership between JIC and the private equity company Japan Industrial Partners (JIP) which joined forces to enter  the bidding process in the summer. In July, the JIP-JIC coalition, …

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Semiconductor Intelligence (SI) has completed its round-up of the chip scene. The semiconductor market dropped 0.8% in 2Q 2022 versus 1Q 2022, according to WSTS.  The 2Q 2022 decline followed a 0.5% quarter-to-quarter decline in 1Q 2022. The 2Q 2022 revenues of the top 15 semiconductor suppliers match the overall market results, with a 1% …

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Zytronic will be demonstrating is ElectroglaZ high-current transparent conductor technology using this hi-fi (right) at Light + Building in Frankfurt. The hi-fi system is intended to show “how the technology can simultaneously power a set of floating Bluetooth speakers and an LCD”, according to the company. “In addition, the system integrates Zytronic’s projected capacitive touch …

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Infineon has introduced an ac-dc controller IC for battery charging up to 130W. Called ICC80QSG, it is a single-stage PWM controller for fly-back converters, intended to be used with one of the company’s P7 super-junction mosfets as a power switch. As is common amongst similar controllers, multiple modes are used to balance efficiency and EMI …

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The first anchor has been installed for CorPower’s 9m diameter 300kW C4 wave power converter. The custom anchor, dubbed Umack, has been installed 4km off the coast of northern Portugal at Aguçadoura, where the giant buoy will be part of the HiWave-5 wave power demonstration project. C4 generates power by bobbing up and down along …

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Today, we’re pleased to announce that Amazon SageMaker Autopilot has added a new training mode that supports model ensembling powered by AutoGluon . For moderately large datasets (< 100MB), ensemble training mode builds machine learning (ML) models with high accuracy quickly – up to 8x faster than the current hyper parameter optimization (HPO) training mode with 250 trials. Amazon SageMaker Autopilot automatically builds, trains, and tunes the best ML models based on your data, while allowing you to maintain full control and visibility. The current HPO mode uses a combination of hyper parameter values to maximize the accuracy of a single model. However, in cases when a single model is unable to capture the complex characteristics of data, combining (or ensembling) the predictions from diverse models can significantly improve overall model accuracy. 

Amazon S3 on Outposts now supports versioning, helping you to locally preserve, retrieve, and restore each version of every object stored in your buckets. Versioning objects makes it easier to recover from both unintended user actions and application failures. After you enable versioning for your S3 on Outposts bucket, all variants of an object are stored in the same bucket, and are distinguishable by a versionId.

Amazon EMR Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE) that makes it simple for data scientists and data engineers to develop, visualize, and debug big data and analytics applications written in R, Python, Scala, and PySpark.

AWS IoT SiteWise now supports definition of asset measurement units at the asset level, enabling customers to use a single asset model for machines reporting measurements in different units.

Today, we are happy to announce the public preview of AWS DataSync Discovery. You can use DataSync Discovery to gain visibility into your on-premises storage performance and utilization, and receive automated recommendations to help simplify and accelerate your data migration to AWS. This new feature of AWS DataSync enables you to better understand your on-premises storage usage through automated data collection and analysis, quickly identify data to migrate, and evaluate recommended AWS Storage services for your data, such as Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, Amazon FSx for Windows File Server, and Amazon Elastic File System (EFS).