CloudWatch Logs now makes it easier for AWS Organizations customers to manage CloudWatch Logs Subscription Filter destination access policies. Subscription Filters are a feature that allow you to deliver log data in real-time to services such as Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, an Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose, or Amazon Lambda. Subscription Filters are also used to share log data with other AWS accounts. You can now use your Organization ID or Organization Path in destination access policies.

Let’s welcome the New Year by first taking a look back at the best of the old one. It turns out popular topics include music (drums, keyboards and guitars), Sony kit, Space and, of course, combining Raspberry Pi with Arduino is an obvious sweet spot!…

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Anglo-Saxon bolshiness may be rearing its gallant head again as we start to scare our leaders into giving us back our freedoms. As it turned out, Sir Chris Whitty defined attitudes to Christmas by telling as to prioritise our socialising. Boris, whipped in by 100 MPs, kept out of it. Just as well because a …

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The holiday gave me a chance to play with bipolar transistor mosfet drivers again. And things did not go quite as planned. I had been using the circuit on the right quite happily from a signal generator. Rise time was quick enough with 470Ω for R3, and is did not have to resort to my …

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The global smartphone applications processor (AP) market grew 17% to $8.3 billion in Q3 2021, with Qualcomm, Apple, MediaTek , Samsung and Unisoc taking the top-five revenue share rankings. Qualcomm maintained its smartphone AP leadership with a 34 percent revenue share, followed by Apple with 28 percent and MediaTek with 27 percent. MediaTek exited the first nine months …

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EPC has announced the availability of the EPC9166, a 500 W DC-DC demo board that converts a 12 V input to 48 V output. The EPC9166 demo board demonstrates the Renesas ISL81807 80 V two-phase synchronous boost controller with the latest generation EPC2218 eGaN FETs from EPC to achieve greater than 96.5% efficiency in a 12 V …

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Yesterday Theranos founder Elizabeth Holnes was found guilty  on four counts of wire fraud and conspiracy to commit fraud against investors. Holnes claimed to have a technology which could make a raft of medical diagnoses  from a finger prick of blood. “She chose fraud over business failure. She chose to be dishonest with investors and …

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Semiconductor sales are expected to grow  9% in 2022 and cross $600 billion for the first time, says  trade credit insurer Euler Hermes which expects demand to normalise in 2022. EH sees demand as having been driven by consumer electronics, such as personal computers and smartphones, an  increase in prices due to tight supply and …

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Yesterday, Apple became the first company to achieve a market cap of $3 trillion. Apple’s share price rose to $182.88 to reach the milestone though it ended the day at $182 with the market cap at $2.99 trillion. Only four other companies have market caps of over $2 trillion – Tesla, Microsoft, Amazon and Alphabet. …

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Silanna Semiconductor has released a 33W charger reference design built around its SZ1131 and silicon power FETs. This follows a larger 65W design released last year. The active clamp fly-back design, called RD-23, “provides a route to delivering performance that matches or exceeds that of commercially available 30W GaN-based chargers at a cost more readily associated with …

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