Amazon SageMaker Autopilot automatically builds, trains, and tunes the best machine learning models based on your data, while allowing you to maintain full control and visibility. Starting today, SageMaker Autopilot provides support for the Apache Parquet file format. Apache Parquet is a free and open-source column-oriented data storage format for the Apache Hadoop ecosystem. It provides efficient data compression and encoding schemes with enhanced performance. This new feature allows the creation of SageMaker Autopilot experiments with files stored in the Apache Parquet file format. 

Amazon SageMaker Autopilot automatically builds, trains, and tunes the best machine learning models based on your data, while allowing you to maintain full control and visibility. You can now use SageMaker Autopilot to build machine learning models for regression and classification problems on datasets larger than 10 GB, the previously supported limit. Starting today, SageMaker Autopilot supports datasets with sizes up to 100 GB by default in all AWS regions where SageMaker Autopilot is currently supported.. SageMaker Autopilot will subsample your dataset automatically, while accounting for class imbalance and preserving rare class labels. The default 100 GB service limit can be increased to support datasets larger than 100GB by filing a limit increase request in the AWS Support Center console .

AWS Cloud Map API now supports the IPv6 protocol, allowing applications to connect to AWS Cloud Map endpoints over IPv6. This allows you to more easily integrate with existing IPv6-based applications, and reduce the need for expensive networking equipment to handle the address translation between IPv4 and IPv6.

A nice story from the industry: Dr Carol Marsh, a senior engineer at aerospace engineering company Leonardo, formally received her OBE from HRH, The Princess Royal for services to Diversity and Inclusion in Electronic Engineering.

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40 years ago this year a company fired up a production line to make a single type of chip. The chip had taken ten years to develop at a cost of $200 million. The executive who had driven the development, in the face of considerable internal company scepticism, died at the age of 63 just …

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In the light of the enormous capex budgets of the Big Three this year  – running at about $40 billion apiece – one wonders what effect government support packages are going to have. The US Chips Act – still being haggled over – will only provide a $52 billion one-off contribution.  Which looks like pissing …

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BT is to trial Nokia’s RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC) for O-RAN in Hull. BT will install the RICs across a number of sites, to optimise network performance for customers of its mobile network, EE. BT is developing O-RAN, with its vendor partners, to ensure it becomes a viable, mature, scale option for network optimisation as …

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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is blocking Lockheed Martin’s proposed $4.4 billion acquisition of Aerojet Rocketdyne, on grounds of competition. Lockheed Martin announced its plans – which were subject to regulatory approval – last year, in January 2021. The FTC, however, has now decided that Aerojet Rocketdyne – which it describes as the last …

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The real reason behind the automotive chip shortage is a step-function increase in demand, suggests IC Insights. After years of moderate increases, IC suppliers blindsided by automotive IC demand spike in 2021. The vast majority of the current headlines regarding the auto industry revolve around the semiconductor device shortage that began in earnest in 2021 …

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Intel has won its appeal against a €1.06 billion antitrust fine imposed by the EU in 2009. The fine was imposed on Intel for giving rebates to Dell, HP and Lenovo for buying most of their chips from Intel, thereby shutting out AMD The judgment came from Europe’s second-highest court – the General Court. It …

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