Customers can now programmatically access information about AWS Availability Zones and Local Zones in addition to information about AWS Regions, services, and endpoints. AWS customers can now easily access the full list of AWS Availability Zones, Local Zones and find out which services are available within the regions by querying AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store.  

Samsung is to put $8 billion into building a new logic fab at Pyeongtaek for its foundry business and another $8 billion unto expanding its memory fab at Xi’an in China. The Pyeongtaek fab is due to run first silicon next year. It will have Samsung’s 5nm EUV process. Samsung started using EUV in production …

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Mouser Electronics continues to increase its Pimoroni offering, adding the PIM486 Enviro and the Pirate Audio accessories from the Sheffield-based company. Pimoroni was founded in 2012, designing and manufacturing breakout boards, kits and add-ons for Raspberry Pi and micro:bit. The company name – pronounced Pih-mo-row-knee, is based on ‘pirate, monkey, robot, ninja’ and the company’s …

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Erzia Technologies has announced a series of rf wide-band high-power amplifiers (WHPAs) that offer both broadband frequency coverage and consistent output power throughout bands as high as E-band. “These wide-band designs are among the first of their kind to be capable of withstanding the harshest environments while holding output power in place,” claimed the company, …

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Alpha and Omega Semiconductor has released a 1.2kV 65mΩ silicon carbide mosfet, its first on a new technology platform. “After years of development work, we are excited to add this SiC mosfet technology to Alpha and Omega’s existing silicon mosfet and IGBT portfolio, and our 650V GaN platform,” said company director David Sheridan. The SiC …

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Diodes has announced the first in a new generation of discrete mosfets, with two n-channel transistors in a 3.3 x 3.3mm package. Called DMN3012LEG, its transistors are made using an LDMOS (lateral diffused MOS) process, and optimised for buck converters and half-bridges – they are internally connected with Q1 as the high-side switch and Q2 on …

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Triad RF Systems of New Jersey has added  to its THPR series of ready-to-install amplified radios. Eliminating the need to integrate standalone components to create a long-range wireless and intelligence, surveillance, and recognizance (ISR) radio links working in S-band, Triad has combined high power RF subsystems with a Silvus StreamCaster model SC4210E-235 core radio that …

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A team of physicists at the University of Bristol has use CMOS to integrate photon source suitable for “large-scale quantum photonics”, it said. “An important challenge that has limited the scaling of integrated quantum photonics has been the lack of on-chip sources able to generate high-quality single photons,” according to Bristol quantum engineer Stefano Paesani. …

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Power conversion products from Artesyn Embedded Power are now available from Relec Electronics, following a distribution agreement between the two companies. Artesyn’s AC-DC products cover a power range of 3W – 24kW and are available in open frame and enclosed models, conduction cooled, modular configurable and rack mount front ends versions, many of which are …

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Researchers at Surrey University and Kyung Hee University of Korea have developed a biodegradable motion sensor – paving the way for implanted nanotechnology. They developed a nano-biomedical motion sensor which can be paired with AI systems to recognise movements of body parts. The technology builds on  previous work around triboelectric nanogenerators (TENG), where researchers used …

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