What are the topics covered this week? There’s Satellite Vu choosing SpaceX for its first launch, Intel’s Investor Day, Lockheed Martin’s 5G OSIRIS testbed, cutting edge Machine Learning processor technology at ISSCC 2022, and thoughts about a consortium to buy Arm…

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35 years ago foundries were very much a newfangled idea. “I remember a party at Bill O’Meara’s house circa 1986,” recalls John East, CEO of Actel for 20 years, “Steve Pletcher was there – VP Sales for TSMC. Steve asked me: ‘How would you like to buy some wafers?’ “‘I’ve never heard of you,’ I …

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EPC is offering a three-phase motor driver evaluation board built around 80V 3.6mΩ GaN power transistors, sized for drones, robotics and e-bikes. “The small size of this inverter allows integration into the motor housing resulting in the lowest EMI, highest density and lowest weight,” said the company. Called EPC9167HC, the design uses two paralleled EPC2065 …

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The fastest bendable 8bit thin-film microcontroller was describe at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference this week. Designed by Belgian research lab Imec and nearby university KU Leuven, it was made by UK-based PragmatIC Semiconductor. Called Flex6502, is has 16,000 0.8µm gate-length IGZO (indium gallium zinc oxide) transistors over a 4.5 x 5.5mm active area (see photo, …

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The AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) CLI announces a public preview of TypeScript native support. The SAM CLI is a developer tool that is designed to initialize and configure serverless applications, build and test locally and on the AWS cloud, and deploy using AWS CloudFormation. SAM CLI’s build, test and deploy features can also be used from IDEs like Visual Studio Code, JetBrains or WebStorm.

AWS Glue Schema Registry  now supports Protocol Buffers  (Protobuf) schemas, enabling customers to use Protobuf schemas to govern the evolution of streaming data and centrally control data quality from data streams to data lake. Glue Schema Registry provides Apache-licensed serializers and deserializers for Protobuf that integrate with Java applications developed for Apache Kafka/Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK), Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, and Kafka Streams.

Amazon S3 accelerates integrity checking of requests by up to 90%. For the first time in the cloud, you can choose from four supported checksum algorithms for data integrity checking on your upload and download requests. In addition, enhancements to the AWS SDK and S3 API significantly improve checksum efficiency, increasing the performance and reducing the cost of data validation. You can automatically calculate and verify checksums as you store or retrieve data from S3, and can access the checksum information at any time using a new S3 API or an S3 Inventory report. Using checksums for data validation is a best practice for data durability, and these capabilities increase the performance and reduce the cost to do so.

AWS App Mesh introduces Agent for Envoy, a new component that monitors Envoy proxies and helps keep them healthy. Agent for Envoy also facilitates Envoy connection draining, helping make your applications more resilient to failures. AWS App Mesh is a service mesh that provides application-level networking to make it easier for your services to communicate with each other across multiple types of compute infrastructure. AWS App Mesh standardizes how your services communicate, giving you end-to-end visibility and options to tune for high-availability of your applications.

AWS App Runner now supports a Java language platform for building and running Java based web applications. The Java language platform on App Runner launched with two Amazon Corretto runtimes – Corretto 11 and Corretto 8. Both runtimes add the Maven and Gradle tools to your application’s container in addition to the respective Corretto runtime version.

AWS Amplify is announcing the general availability of the Authenticator UI library for Flutter. Using the Authenticator UI library, Flutter developers can create a login/registration experience in minutes. When a developer adds the Authentication category and sets the authorization and verification attributes from the Amplify CLI or Amplify Studio, the Authenticator login/registration forms are displayed accordingly. Developers can also apply custom theming to the Authenticator forms, and override validations on login/signup fields. Developers can also add/remove the profile attribute fields used in the sign up form.