This morning, Kioxia set a valuation target of $4.9 billion to $5.5 billion for an IPO on December 18th on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. In October, it had been hoped …

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SEMI, which represents the manufacturers od semiconductor manufacturing equipment, has published recommendations for the EU  to bolster its semiconductor ecosystem. The SEMI Europe Recommendations for the 2024-2029 Legislative Term paper …

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Memory tokens and receptacles in the Datakey Bar series now include the Mini-Bar which has been designed by ATEK Access Technologies to provide a memory system for handheld applications. The …

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Cambridge-based GaN power module maker QPT has patented a modification to the heat path of bottom and top-cooled power assemblies. It is a “novel way to attach dies to the …

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BAE Systems is planning to recruit over 2,400 apprentices, undergraduates and graduates in 2025, “which will result in a record number of 6,500 in training, making up approximately 15% of its …

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Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger is to leave the company after three years. Intel CFO David Zinsner and Michelle Johnston Holthaus are co-CEOs while the board searches for a replacement. Frank …

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Amazon Connect now makes it as easy as a few clicks for you to create, edit, and continuously improve conversational AI bots for interactive voice response (IVR) and chatbot self-service experiences. Now, you can configure and design your bots (powered by Amazon Lex ) directly from the Connect web UI, allowing you to deliver dynamic, conversational AI experiences to understand your customer’s intent, ask follow-on questions, and automate resolution of their issues.

By using Amazon Connect’s drag-and-drop workflow designer, you can enhance your bots with Amazon Connect Customer Profiles, making it easy to deliver personalized experiences with no code. For example, you can upgrade your touch-tone menu (e.g., Press 1 for Account Support) with a bot to greet your customer by name, proactively offer to help them pay an upcoming bill, and offer them additional support options. In a few clicks, you can also customize and launch the Connect widget to further enhance your customer’s digital experience. These new bot building capabilities in Amazon Connect make it easy for you create and launch bot-powered self-service experiences by reducing the need for you to manage multiple applications or custom integrations.

To learn more refer to our public documentation . This new feature is available in all AWS regions where Amazon Connect and Amazon Lex is available. To learn more about Amazon Connect, the AWS contact center as a service solution on the cloud, please visit the Amazon Connect website .

Amazon Q Business is a fully managed, generative AI–powered assistant that can answer questions, provide summaries, generate content, and securely complete tasks based on data and information in your enterprise systems. Amazon Q Business now offers capabilities to answer questions and extract insights from visual elements embedded within documents.

This new feature enables users to query information embedded in various types of visual, including diagrams, infographics, charts, and image-based content. With this launch, customers can now uncover valuable insights that are captured within visual content embedded in documents including PDF, Microsoft PowerPoint and Word, and Google Docs and Google Slides. Amazon Q Business provides transparency by surfacing the specific images utilized to generate the responses, enabling users to contextualize the extracted information.

The new visual analysis feature is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon Q Business is available. To learn more, visit the Amazon Q Business product page .

Amazon Connect Contact Lens now offers built-in dashboards to monitor the performance of your conversational AI bots making it easy for you to analyze and continuously improve your self-service and automated experiences. From the Contact Lens flows performance dashboard, you can view Amazon Lex and Q in Connect bot analytics including how your customers communicate their issues, the most common contact reasons, and the outcomes of the interaction. From the dashboard, you can navigate to the bot management page and make updates in a couple clicks to improve bot accuracy. These new capabilities make it easy for you analyze the performance of your conversational AI experiences, all within the Connect web UI.

These features are available in all AWS regions where Amazon Connect and Amazon Lex are available. To learn more about these metrics and the flows performance dashboard, see the Amazon Connect Administrator Guide and Amazon Connect API Reference . To learn more about Amazon Connect, the AWS contact center as a service solution on the cloud, please visit the Amazon Connect website .

Today, AWS announces the preview of Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS). Amazon EVS is a new, native AWS service to run VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) within your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC). 

Amazon EVS automates and simplifies deployments and provides a ready-to-use VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) environment on AWS. This allows you to quickly migrate VMware-based virtual machines to AWS using the same VCF software and tools you already use in your on-premises environment. 

With Amazon EVS, you can now take advantage of the scale, resilience, and performance of AWS together with familiar VCF software and tools. You have the choice to self-manage or leverage AWS Partners to manage and operate your EVS deployments. With this, you keep complete control over your VMware architecture and can optimize your deployments to meet the unique demands of your applications. Amazon EVS provides the fastest path to migrate and operate VMware workloads on AWS.

Amazon EVS is currently available in preview for pre-selected customers and partners. To learn more about Amazon EVS and how it can help accelerate your VMware workload migration to AWS, visit the Amazon EVS product page or contact us .