Starting today, memory optimized Amazon EC2 X2idn instances are available in Asia-Pacific(Osaka) region. X2idn instance, powered by 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (code named Ice Lake), are designed for memory-intensive workloads and deliver improvements in performance, price performance, and cost per GiB of memory compared to previous generation X1 instances. X2idn has a 16:1 ratio of memory to vCPU making this instance a great fit for workloads such as in-memory databases and analytics, and big data processing engines. X2idn deliver up to 45% more SAPS than comparable X1 instances and are SAP-Certified for running Business Suite on HANA, SAP S/4HANA, Data Mart Solutions on HANA, Business Warehouse on HANA, SAP BW/4HANA, and SAP NetWeaver workloads on any database. You can view the certification data for X2idn on the Certified and Supported SAP HANA Hardware Directory .
Leeds Best For Charging EVs
Leeds is the best city in the UK to charge your EV says Select Car Leasing which lists the UK cities that facilitate the most electric charging stations in their car parks. https://www.selectcarleasing.co.uk/van-leasing/news/article/uk-parking-index-best-worst-places-to-park-car Leeds takes the lead as the best city for drivers of electric vehicles, with a score of 10 out of 10. Providing a number of electric …
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High Growth Economies
India is expected by the IMF to be the world’s fastest growing major economy this year with growth of 6.8%. Indian GDP is expected to surpass Japan as Asia’s second-largest economy by 2030. In Q1 of the new fiscal year (April to June), India’s growth was 13.5%. Counting all countries, even small island nations, India …
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Portable 4GHz spectrum analyser has many options for 5G/LTE
Anritsu has introduced a multi-functional spectrum analyser for field use. Covering 9kHz to 4GHz, MS2080A, as it is called, is suited to “interference hunting and 5G/LTE base station installation and maintenance”, according to the company. Measuring 290 x 212 x 96mm and 3.8kg, its battery is said to last more than three hours. Modulation bandwidth …
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Electronica: Connected sensor eval kits from Infineon
Infineon will be revealing two internet-connected sensor evaluation kits at the Electronica exhibition in Munich, one for 60GHz radar and one for CO2 sensing. The company has made the sensor board part of these kits compatible with AdaFruit’s ‘Wing’ format which plugs into processor boards with AdaFruit’s ‘Feather’ pin layout. Infineon has adopted the Wing …
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Microchip’s 2nd gen smart meter MCUs
Microchip is aiming at smart metering with a family of microcontrollers and a power-line communication modem IC. The processors, nominally the PIC32CXMT family, have one or two Arm Cortex-M4F cores – all get a 200MHz application processor, and some get a 240MHz metrology processing core. The PIC32CXMTSH version in particular (see diagram) gets an ‘energy …
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Sierra Space, IBM sign MOU for space-related technology and software
Sierra Space, the space plane specialist, and IBM have agreed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to work on AI-based space-related technology and software, to work across the former’s range of space vehicles and infrastructure. Specifically, they plan to coordinate the workload of astronauts through Sierra Space’s data analysis and collection technology. They also envisage “building …
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Intel IPOs Mobileye
Mobileye IPO’d yesterday selling 41 million shares at $21 apiece. The price rose to $27 in market trading putting a value of $22 billion on the unit. Intel bought Mobileye for $15.3 billion in 2017. The IPO raised $861 million for Intel. Intel retains all Mobileye’s Class B shares giving it 99.4% of the voting power …
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Siemens EDA certified for TSMC 3/4nm
TSMC has certified an array of Siemens’ EDA products for its 3nm and 4nm processes, while establishing 3D IC enablement, further advancement of EDA in the cloud, and a range of other initiatives. Siemens’ Calibre Platform tool for IC physical verification sign-off is certified for TSMC’s N4P and N3E processes. The Calibre nmPlatform tool products …
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Tesla under criminal investigation for self-driving claims
Tesla has been under criminal investigation by the US Department of Justice over its self-driving technology claims since last year, reports Reuters. The DoJ investigation is in addition to Federal and Californian investigations into self-driving claims by Tesla. In August 2021, the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration opened an investigation crashes involving Tesla’s Autopilot. …
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