The AWS Deep Learning AMIs are now available in 5 additional regions: US West (N. California), Canada (Central), South America (Sao Paulo), EU (London), and EU (Paris). The AMIs are now globally available in 16 AWS regions.

AWS Fargate is now available in three new AWS Regions: US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), and EU (Ireland).

The AWS Deep Learning AMIs now include advanced optimizations for Chainer 4 and Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (CNTK) 2.5.1 that are tailored to deliver higher-performance training across Amazon EC2 instances.  

Your self-managed MySQL database, located on premises or in the cloud, can now be securely migrated to Amazon Aurora. You can migrate a large database by creating an encrypted database backup file in Amazon S3 and restoring it to Aurora, or replicate your data over an encrypted connection.

You can now launch R4, db.t2.xlarge and db.t2.2xlarge instance types when using Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for Oracle in the AWS GovCloud (US) region.

With AWS Elemental MediaPackage, you can now add Common Media Application Format (CMAF) fragmented MP4 HLS endpoints to live channels. This is in addition to the Apple HLS, Microsoft Smooth Streaming, and DASH endpoints already supported. Support for CMAF HLS endpoints allows you to ingest a single live stream and format it to play on connected TVs, mobile phones, computers, tablets, and game consoles while also sending High-Efficiency Video Codec (HEVC) content to Apple devices with improved video quality, including High Dynamic Range (HDR) and content protection with the potential to reduce distribution costs.

Server demand slipped in Q1 but will rise 10% in Q2, asays DRAMeXchange, with Dell, HPE, and Inspur the top three H1 server suppliers with shipment market shares of 16.6%, 15%, and 7.2% respectively. Shipnents will grow 4.89% in 2018 compared with 2017. Enterprise servers contribute to the most of shipments worldwide, while servers used …

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Cyient, of Hyderabad India, has bought Imec mixed-signal ASIC fabless spin-off AnSem. AnSem specialises in advanced analogue, radio frequency, and mixed-signal integrated circuit design and provides custom ASICs for clients around the world across key industries, including automotive, medical, industrial, smart home, and smart grid, with long-life applications of five to ten years. AnSem, has …

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Cambridge Electronic Industries, the coaxial connector and cable assembly specialist for the broadcast and  machine vision markets, is launching a new range of high speed Micro BNC connectors for smaller cameras and devices using the higher resolution formats: 12G-SDI, 4K, HDR and UHD, where higher density is required. The connectors are one third of the …

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What is believed to be the world’s first demonstration for cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) direct communications technology operating across vehicles from different manufacturers took place in Washington DC, USA this week. Using Qualcomm’s C-V2X chipset in Audi and Ford vehicles, demonstrations showed how C-V2X communications can alert nearby vehicles to potential hazards when the driver’s view …

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