AWS Elastic Beanstalk enables customers to deploy and scale web applications and services without having to manage any of the underlying infrastructure. Elastic Beanstalk automatically scales your application up and down based on your application’s specific needs. Starting today, you can run applications orchestrated by AWS Elastic Beanstalk in the Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region.

Thanks to Uswitch for this one – the top 12 OECD countries with the slowest median broadband download speed: Rank Country Median Download Speed (Mbps) Estimated Time to Download 1,500 MB Movie 1 Turkey 26.34 0:07:36 2 Greece 33.41 0:05:59 3 Mexico 38.77 0:05:10 4 Slovakia 47.34 0:04:13 5 Czech Republic 47.68 0:04:12 6 Italy 49.80 …

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Out of 5,610 identified coral species, an estimated 232 are threatened with extinction according to the IUCN Red List. Reefs cover 0.1% of the planet, which doesn’t seem much, but they are home to around 25-30% of all aquatic life. The  Allen Coral Atlas database, completed in September 2021, maps all of the shallow-water coral reefs …

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France is the latest country to sign the Artemis Accords, Nasa has announced. It’s signing up to an agreed set of principles for operating within the U.S. agency’s lunar exploration plans. The number of countries agreeing to the Artemis Accords now totals 20, with France becoming the fifth European Union country (alongside Italy, Luxembourg, Poland …

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Schneider Electric has  launched of the  Schneider Electric Sustainability Impact Awards  as part of its Partnering for Sustainability Program. The Partnering for Sustainability programme includes  education and training, a simplified product portfolio, an open and collaborative support ecosystem and digital knowledge and expertise. By providing four easy steps for partners to follow to future proof their businesses for life, …

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The overall passive components market for power converters will reach $11.5 billion by 2027, says Yole Developpement, with the gate driver IC market reaching $2.7 billion.  EV/HEV applications increasingly drive technology trends in passive components. Therefore, highly reliable passive components are needed. The gate driver IC market is dominated by level shifter-type gate drivers, followed …

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After falling 7% in 2019 because of a weak global economy and then dropping 2% in 2020 due to the Covid crisis, MCU sales rebounded with a 27% increase in 2021 to a record-high $20.2 billion, says IC Insights. The 2021 surge was the highest percentage growth in MCUs since 2000. The average selling price …

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Japanese and US companies are to work together to establish a Japanese capability to manufacture 2nm ICs by 2025-7, reports the Nikkei. The US and Japanese governments are backing the initiative which was initiated in May by an agreement between the US and Japanese governments to co-operate on chips. Companies expected to be involved include …

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The first time I spoke to Iann Barron, the Inmos co-founder who has died at the age of 85, was on the phone. “You’re not very nice about my company – you compared it to the Groundnut Scheme,” complained Barron. He was in London so I suggested we should go to the Wig and Pen …

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EPC has announced a 100V 3.9mΩ radiation-hardened GaN HEMT. Called EPC7018 it comes in a 13.9mm2 chip-scale package (the ‘flag’ in the image) and can handle pulses up to 345A. The total dose radiation rating is greater than 1Mrad, and SEE immunity for LET of 85MeV/(mg/cm2). “EPC7018 offers designers a high power, low on-resistance device enabling a new …

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