AWS Cost Allocation Tags now offers APIs that you can use to activate and deactivate your Cost Allocation Tags. After you activate a Cost Allocation Tag, it will appear in your cost management products, such as AWS Cost Explorer and AWS Cost and Usage Report. You can use Cost Allocation Tags to filter, categorize, and track your AWS cost and usage information. Previously, you had to activate and deactivate Cost Allocation Tag on the Cost Allocation Tag page in the AWS Billing Console. With this launch, you can use the ListCostAllocationTags API to list all Tags and use the UpdateCostAllocationTagsStatus API to activate and deactivate Cost Allocation Tags.

Introduced at re:Invent in November 2021 , AWS Mainframe Modernization is now generally available for customer and partner use. Mainframe Modernization is a unique platform that allows you to migrate and modernize your on-premises mainframe workloads to a managed and highly available runtime environment on AWS. The service currently supports two main migration patterns—replatforming and automated refactoring—so you can select your best-fit migration path and associated toolchains based on your migration assessment results.

Thanks to Knometa Research for this one – the six regions with the largest wafer processing capacity measured by 200mm equivalent wafers per month: Korea Taiwan China Americas RoW Europe  

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Since Elon Musk made his famous $44 billion bid for Twitter, Twitter’s value has gone dramatically South. Elon’s bid  was pitched at $54. 20 a share but, yesterday, Twitter’s shares were under $40. Instead of $44 billion, Twitter is now valued by the market at $14 billion less – a mere $30 billion. Of course …

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Money pits in the Forbes Global 2000 mlist of companies with revenues of over $12 billion fall into three groups: those hit by covid, tech companies and legacy enterprises. The biggest covid losers include Air France-KLM Group, which lost $3.9 billion in one year, the equivalent of 23% of its annual revenue of almost $17 billion. Another …

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Nasa has chosen two companies to build its next-generation astronaut spacesuits: Axiom Space and Collins Aerospace. The spacesuits will have to support spacewalking in low-Earth orbit outside the ISS and also on the Moon as part of future Artemis missions. How much do the suits cost? Nasa’s Extravehicular Activity Services (xEVAS) contracts have a potential …

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The EPC9173 GaN-based inverter reference design enhances motor system size, performance, range, precision, torque, all while simplifying design for faster time-to-market. The  size of this inverter allows integration into the motor housing. The 3-phase BLDC motor drive inverter uses the EPC23101 eGaN IC with embedded gate driver function and a floating power GaN FET with 3.3 …

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The LED package market grew 15.4% last year to reach $17.65 billion, says TrendForce. The top three manufacturers accounted for 29.5% of the market. Nichia’s backlight LED business revenue declined due to increasing OLED penetration. However, driven by the rapid growth of revenue in the flash LED, automotive LED, and general lighting markets, overall revenue …

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TSMC is expecting revenues to grow around 30% this year, says chairman Mark Liu. Last year they grew 24.9%. “The current inflation has no direct impact on the semiconductor industry as the demand drop is mainly for consumer devices like smartphones and PCs while EV demand is very strong and partially exceeds our supply capacity …

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TI is keeping a firm grip on its position as the No.1 analogue player while the top ten players make up 68% of the sector’s revenues, reports IC Insights’ Q2 Update to its McLean Report. With its 2021 analogue sales up 29% on 2020 at $14.1 billion and holding  a 19% marketshare, TI firmly maintained …

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