Starting today, you have the option to automatically set up connectivity from Amazon Relational Database Services (Amazon RDS) and Amazon Aurora  databases to an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) compute instance during database creation. When provisioning a database using the Amazon RDS console, you now have the option to select an EC2 instance and with a single click establish connectivity between the database and the EC2 instance, following AWS recommended best practices . Amazon RDS automatically sets up your VPC and related network settings during database creation to enable a secure connection between the EC2 instance and the RDS database.

Amazon SageMaker is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region. Starting today, you can build, train, and deploy machine learning (ML) models in the region.

How far is one beholden to one’s old mates? Ed ruminates in his diary. My former colleagues from my semiconductor industry days are getting on to me trying to persuade me to accelerate government procurement programmes which have been approved or are awaiting approval. The reason is obvious – with an industry downturn looming, inventories …

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If the US, Europe and Japan react to a Chinese invasion of Taiwan in the same way as they did to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, then world GDP would take a $2.6 trillion hit – representing a 3% decline in world GDP – reports the Nikkei, citing a study from China’s Ministry of Public Security …

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52 years ago a company hired 50 of the best researchers they could find and put them to work imagining the future of computing. Three years later this group of iconoclastic free-thinkers had invented the personal computer, the laser printer, Ethernet, page description languages, the mouse and the GUI. But the company didn’t make any …

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Q2  notebook PC volumes were down -15% y-o-y says Strategy Analytics, but volumes and ASPs are still better than they were before Covid. Lenovo barely under-performed the total market and remains the #1 Notebook PC vendor, as shipments (sell-in) fell to 12.8 million units in Q2 2022 (calendar year); this represented -17% decline from the 15.5 …

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Now in its fifth year of awards, EW BrightSparks sees Electronics Weekly partner with RS Grass Roots to highlight the brightest and most talented young engineers in the UK today. Here, in our series on the latest EW BrightSparks of 2022, we highlight Ana Claudia Reis, a Software Engineering Manager at Imagination Technologies. Achievement Ana is …

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Digi-Key Electronics is expanding its product distribution capacity, with the opening of new facilities in Thief River Falls in Minnesota. The official ribbon cutting ceremony of its new centre is pictured above. This increases the company’s headquarters’ footprint by 2.2 million square feet, it highlights, for a combined total of more than 3 million square …

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Andes and Green Hills are to develop an integrated automotive compute offering for IC designers based on the AndesCore 25-Series RISC-V processor IP including the safety-certified µ-velOSity RTOS, the ASIL-certified MULTI development environment with advanced system-level debugging and analysis tools and C/C++ Optimizing Compilers, along with the Green Hills Probe for JTAG and trace target connections. The …

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Elon Musk is looking at a tie-up between his brain implant unit Neuralink with the implant startup Synchron, reports Reuters. Synchron says it “has developed an endovascular brain computer interface that can access every corner of the brain using its natural highways, the blood vessels. Our breakthrough platform launches a new frontier for the treatment …

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