The December 2024 WSTS forecast called for strong 2024 semiconductor market growth of 19%. However, the strength is limited to a few product lines. Memory is projected to grow 81% …

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Researchers at UK universities have developed a wearable ‘sticker’ that can monitor and detect changes in people’s breathing rates. The non-invasive sensor-based system – using a capacitive sensor – can …

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After rapid growth 2019-22, O-RAN investments fell by $500 million in 2023 and have declined a further 30% y-o-y during the first three quarters of 2024, says Dell’Oro Group. The …

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Imec has proposed a 3D integrated  CCD that can operate as a block-addressable buffer memory, in support of data-intensive compute applications. Memory operation is demonstrated on a planar proof-of-concept CCD …

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Destination 2D, a Milpitas startup which has graphene inventor and Nobel laureate Konstantin Novoselov (pictured) as its chief scientist, has made graphene interconnects for ICs on a CMOS process. Destination …

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You can now configure holidays and other variances to your contact center Hours of operation with “overrides” in Amazon Connect, using APIs or the admin website. Overrides are exceptions to your contact center’s standard day-of-the-week operating hours. For example, if your contact center opens at 9am and closes at 10pm, but on New Year’s Eve you want to close at 4pm to allow your agents to get home in time to celebrate, you can add an override to do so. When the holiday arrives and you close your contact center early, callers get the after hours customer experience.

Hours of operations overrides are supported in all AWS regions where Amazon Connect is offered. To learn more about Amazon Connect, the AWS cloud-based contact center, please visit the Amazon Connect website . To learn more about the hours of operations, see the Amazon Connect Administrator Guide .
 

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for PostgreSQL announces Amazon RDS Extended Support minor version 11.22-RDS.20241121. We recommend that you upgrade to this version to fix known security vulnerabilities and bugs in prior versions of PostgreSQL. Learn more about the updates and patches in this Extended Support minor version in the Amazon RDS User Guide .

Amazon RDS Extended Support provides you more time, up to three years, to upgrade to a new major version to help you meet your business requirements. During Extended Support, Amazon RDS will provide critical security and bug fixes for your RDS for PostgreSQL databases after the community ends support for a major version. You can run your PostgreSQL databases on Amazon RDS with Extended Support for up to three years beyond a major version’s end of standard support date.

You are able to leverage automatic minor version upgrades to automatically upgrade your databases to more recent minor versions during scheduled maintenance windows. Learn more about upgrading your database instances, including minor and major version upgrades, in the Amazon RDS User Guide .

Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL makes it simple to set up, operate, and scale PostgreSQL deployments in the cloud. See Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Pricing for pricing details and regional availability. Create or update a fully managed Amazon RDS database in the Amazon RDS Management Console .
 

Amazon Redshift announces the general availability of auto-copy, which simplifies data ingestion from Amazon S3 into Amazon Redshift in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. This new feature enables you to set up continuous file ingestion from your Amazon S3 prefix and automatically load new files to tables in your Amazon Redshift data warehouse without the need for additional tools or custom solutions.

Previously, Amazon Redshift customers had to build their data pipelines using COPY commands to automate continuous loading of data from S3 to Amazon Redshift tables. With auto-copy, you can now setup an integration which will automatically detect and load new files in a specified S3 prefix to Redshift tables. The auto-copy jobs keep track of previously loaded files and exclude them from the ingestion process. You can monitor auto-copy jobs using system tables

Amazon Redshift auto-copy from Amazon S3 is now generally available for both Amazon Redshift Serverless and Amazon Redshift RA3 Provisioned data warehouses in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. To learn more, see the documentation or check out the AWS Blog .
 

Amazon OpenSearch Service now adds support for Graviton3 based r7gd instances with local NVMe-based SSD storage in six additional regions i.e., Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Middle East (UAE), AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West). AWS Graviton3-based instances with local NVMe-based SSD storage have up to 45% improved real-time NVMe storage performance compared to comparable Graviton2-based instances.

Graviton3 based r7gd instances have custom-designed processors that enable improved performance for memory-intensive workloads. They offer upto 30 Gbps enhanced networking bandwidth and up to 20 Gbps of bandwidth to the Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS).

Amazon OpenSearch Service Graviton3 instances are supported on all OpenSearch versions, and Elasticsearch versions 7.9 and 7.10. Please refer to the Amazon OpenSearch Service pricing page for additional information about instance types supported in different regions and their On-Demand and Reserved Instance pricing details.

To learn more about Amazon OpenSearch Service, please visit the product page .

Amazon Bedrock Guardrails enable you to implement safeguards for your generative AI applications based on your use cases and responsible AI policies. Starting today, we are excited to announce that Amazon Bedrock Guardrails adds multilingual capabilities with support for Spanish and French languages.

Amazon Bedrock Guardrails help you implement safeguards for building safe, generative AI applications by filtering undesirable content, redacting personally identifiable information (PII), and enhancing content safety and privacy. You can configure policies for content filters, denied topics, word filters, PII redaction, and contextual grounding checks to tailor safeguards to your specific use cases and responsible AI policies.

With support for Spanish and French languages, a wider set of users in multiple geographies can now use Bedrock Guardrails to build safer generative AI applications based on their use cases and responsible AI policies.

To learn more about Amazon Bedrock Guardrails, see the product page and the technical documentation .