Starting today, Amazon EC2 X2idn and X2iedn are available in additional regions and bare metal sizes. X2idn instances are now available in US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon) and AWS GovCloud (US-West). X2iedn instances are now available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai) and AWS GovCloud (US-West). X2idn and X2iedn are powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors with an all-core turbo frequency up to 3.5 GHz and deliver up to 50% higher compute price performance than comparable X1 instances. X2idn and X2iedn instances both include up to 3.8 TB of local NVMe SSD storage and up to 100 Gbps of networking bandwidth. X2idn offers up to 2 TiB of memory and X2iedn offers up to 4 TiB of memory. X2idn has a 16:1 ratio of memory to vCPU and X2iedn has a 32:1 ratio, making these instances a great fit for workloads such as in-memory databases and analytics, big data processing engines, and Electronic Design Automation (EDA) workloads. X2idn and X2iedn instances are SAP-Certified.

Amazon Connect now displays scheduling metrics within the schedule management user experience to help contact center managers efficiently manage their agent’s schedules. Managers can quickly see and take action on key metrics that drive business outcomes, such as the difference between forecasted agent capacity needed and the number of agents scheduled for each 15 or 30 minute time block. These metrics are displayed adjacent to agent schedules allowing managers to make precision adjustments without the need to repeatedly switch between the scheduling and metrics screens, helping them optimize business outcomes while ensuring a balanced agent workload.

There was once a great engineer who had only one year of formal schooling before having to start work delivering telegrams and selling newspapers at the age of 9 because of his family’s poverty. He became apprenticed to a railway company and worked for an electrical company before setting up in business with a partner …

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The Electronics Weekly team share some fingerposts – their picks of the week, in terms of announcements, developments, product releases, quotes or anything else in the wider world that caught their eye…

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The abortion furore in the USA points up the difference between the North and South on abortion rights. The map above  uses data from The Center for Reproductive Rights to show the state of global abortion laws at the start of 2021

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Omni-channel distributor, RS Components, has become a member of  Make UK, the UK’s manufacturing organisation to promote innovation in and the development of skills for the British manufacturing industry. RS Components’ managing director, UK and Ireland, Emma Bofield, said: “Our membership will enable us to contribute to [the Make UK] community, using our unique position …

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Halo Microelectronics has introduced a switched capacitor charger dc-dc converter for single Li-ion or Li-po cells that can deliver up to 7A while drawing 3.5A from the supply. Called HL7139, it is inteded to work from USB PD PSS (power delivery, programmable power supply) sources. Switched capacitor power converters can be compact and highly efficient, …

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The government has set out plans for how the tech regulator will tackle the dominance of major firms. New ‘fair-play’ rules for the biggest tech firms would make it easier for people to switch between phone operating systems and mean smaller firms are alerted to algorithm changes. There are plans for fines up to 10 …

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The 2D Experimental Pilot Line (2D-EPL) has launched its first customisable wafer run. One  of five MPW runs, this first phase targets sensor applications. Companies, universities and research institutes can include their designs as dies on joint wafers, to test their ideas for devices on a larger scale at relatively low costs. The 2D-EPL is …

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The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is seeking proposals for an in-space demonstration of the use of nuclear thermal rockets. Specifically, DARPA is after proposals for Phases 2 and 3 of its DRACO (Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations) programme, which is for the design, development, fabrication, and assembly of a nuclear thermal …

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