Starting today, compute-optimized Amazon EC2 C7g instances are available in US East (Ohio) and Europe (Ireland). C7g instances are the first instances powered by the latest AWS Graviton3 processors and deliver up to 25% better performance over Graviton2-based C6g instances for a broad spectrum of applications such as application servers, microservices, batch processing, electronic design automation (EDA), gaming, video encoding, scientific modeling, distributed analytics, high performance computing (HPC), CPU-based machine learning (ML) inference, and ad serving.

Starting today, the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) G5 instances powered by NVIDIA A10G Tensor Core GPUs are now available in Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Tokyo), Europe (Frankfurt, London), and Canada (Central). G5 instances can be used for a wide range of graphics intensive and machine learning use cases. They deliver up to 3x higher performance for graphics-intensive applications and machine learning inference, and up to 3.3x higher performance for training simple to moderately complex machine learning models when compared to Amazon EC2 G4dn instances.

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling  now supports a higher default limit for Auto Scaling groups per account. Customers can now create up to 500 Auto Scaling Groups per account, an increase from 200. The limit increase enables customers to provision, manage, and scale EC2 instances for more applications per account.

AWS Fargate for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) is now available in the Amazon Web Services China Beijing Region, operated by Sinnet, and the Amazon Web Services China Ningxia Region, operated by NWCD. AWS Fargate is a serverless, pay-as-you-go compute engine that lets you focus on building applications without managing servers. Amazon EKS is a managed container service to run and scale Kubernetes applications. Using AWS Fargate serverless compute in your Amazon EKS clusters removes the need to provision and manage servers, lets you specify and pay for resources per application, and improves security through application isolation by design.

Among got the 300 job vacancies being advertised at Imec is one for a ‘Talent Recruiter’. The ad is headed: Talent recruiter (temporary assignment) Human Resources – Leuven | Just now “Do you have a nose for talent?” runs the job spec, “Can you help us track the smart creatives, deep thinkers, technical wizards, and …

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In 1968 an inventor applied for a patent on the microprocessor before Intel and TI filed their applications. In 1990  the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office granted the patent. In 1991 the inventor licensed the patent to Philips. The inventor is said to have received $150 million in revenues for the patent. In June 2021 …

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The UK’s Defence and Security Accelerator has launched a new competition, involving blood, sweat, tears, saliva: Generation-after-next Wearable Technologies. As the name suggests, the aim is to encourage and find “innovative wearable technologies that focus on biocompatible materials that access information present within an individual’s bodily fluids”. Body fluids Up to £750k of funding will …

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IQE, the compound semiconductor wafer supplier, has signed a multi-year agreement with its long-term partner, photonics specialist Lumentum, for the supply of epiwafers supporting 3D Sensing, LiDAR for automotive and optical networking applications. Effective immediately, the multi-year agreement is focused on high volume production of epiwafers which will be used across Lumentum’s portfolio of  laser products, …

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AWS has set up a  Centre for Quantum Networking (CQN), focused on how to build a “scalable, commercial quantum network.” “To unlock the full potential of quantum devices, they need to be connected together into a quantum network, similar to the way today’s devices are connected via the internet,” says AWS, “despite not receiving the …

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As Republicans and Democrats argue how to reconcile the two versions of the Chips Act which were separately passed by the Senate and House of Representatives, a cut-off moment aporoaches after which the bill could be lost. Congress breaks for its summer recess in August and, when it comes back, the US will be into …

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