Intel, Micron, ADI and MITRE Engenuity have agreed to accelerate semiconductor research, development, and prototyping to build a more robust U.S. semiconductor industry. The engagement establishes a Semiconductor Alliance to propose the foundation for a whole-of-nation approach for a more innovation-focused U.S. semiconductor industry and supply chain. The Semiconductor Alliance, led by MITRE Engenuity, was …

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Packaging lead times have risen to 50 weeks and more, says Sondrel. In the initial stages of the pandemic, packaging houses were badly hit by cancellation of orders and had to lay off staff or even close down, says Sondrel. As silicon production surges, they are struggling to cope with the result that the lead …

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E-Peas has unveiled boost and buck energy harvesting controllers that can start up on a few hundred millivolts and provide regulated outputs as well as energy storage mediation. There are three parts: AEM00940: harvesting and storage manager with LDO Two regulated outputs Supercapacitor or battery storage Optional primary battery back-up source Boost harvester interface Harvest voltage …

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Analog Devices has created an alternative to its venerable LTZ1000 untra-precision voltage reference, with better initial accuracy and less noise, although not every parameter is improved. Called ADR1000 (right), the nominally 6.62V part is a pin-compatible replacement for the LTZ1000 (below), and like it includes a buried Zener reference, a heater for temperature stabilization and …

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Amazon Redshift now provides native integration with Microsoft Azure Active Directory (AD), which customers can use for authentication and authorization with tools like Microsoft Power BI. You can now use Azure AD to authenticate access to Amazon Redshift and the end users get their permissions based on their group membership defined in Azure AD.

Amazon OpenSearch Service now allows you to use custom dictionaries with the IK (Chinese) Analysis plugin. With support for custom dictionaries, you can use your preferred keywords and synonyms with IK Analyzer to tailor search results to suit your business needs.

Beginning April 1, 2022, the inter-Availability Zone (AZ) data transfer within the same AWS Region for AWS PrivateLink, AWS Transit Gateway, and AWS Client VPN is free of charge. Previously, customers incurred an inter-AZ data transfer charge for sending data across availability zones while using these networking services. With this pricing change, inter-AZ data transfer for these services is free of charge, making it even more cost-effective for customers to run multi-AZ workloads.  

Amazon Redshift now supports role-based access control (RBAC), a new enhancement that helps you simplify the management of security privileges in Amazon Redshift. You can use the RBAC feature to control end user access to data at a broad or granular level based on their job role/permission rights and level of data sensitivity.

Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports SQL Server Agent job replication. With this new feature, SQL Server Agent jobs created, modified, or deleted on the primary instance will be automatically synchronized to the secondary instance in a Multi-AZ configuration.

AWS OpsWorks for Configuration Management now supports the current Puppet Enterprise LTS version 2019.8.10. Customers benefit from receiving the update automatically during the weekly system maintenance window scheduled individually by each customer.