JEDEC has announced an update of the DDR5 Serial Presence Detect (SPD) Contents standard, JESD400-5D. The SPD data is used by a system’s BIOS to properly initialise and optimise memory …

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Infineon is sampling 60 GHz CMOS radar sensors for  ultra-low power IoT applications. The Infineon XENSIV BGT60CUTR13AIP aims to become a key sensor for Physical AI to increase the intelligence …

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Samsung is reported to be paying $773 million for two high-NA EUV machines – the Twinscan EXE:5200B – with one for delivery this year and one for delivery in H1 …

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The European Space Agency’s (ESA) presence in Spain is set to be strengthened. It has announced signing a dozen contracts with Spanish space industry organisations. And the country also officially …

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Starting today, AWS Global Accelerator supports application endpoints in two additional AWS Regions, Asia Pacific (Thailand) Region and Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region, expanding the number of supported AWS Regions to thirty three.

AWS Global Accelerator is a service that is designed to improve the availability, security, and performance of your internet-facing applications. By using the congestion-free AWS network, end-user traffic to your applications benefits from increased availability, DDoS protection at the edge, and higher performance relative to the public internet. Global Accelerator provides static IP addresses that act as fixed entry endpoints for your application resources in one or more AWS Regions, such as your Application Load Balancers, Network Load Balancers, Amazon EC2 instances, or Elastic IPs. Global Accelerator continually monitors the health of your application endpoints and offers deterministic fail-over for multi-region workloads without any DNS dependencies.

To get started, visit the AWS Global Accelerator website and review its documentation .

AWS Security Hub Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM ) now supports the Center for Internet Security (CIS) AWS Foundations Benchmark v5.0. This industry-standard benchmark provides security configuration best practices for AWS with clear implementation and assessment procedures. The new standard includes 40 controls that perform automated checks against AWS resources to evaluate compliance with the latest version 5.0 requirements.

The standard is now available in all AWS Regions where Security Hub CSPM is currently available, including the AWS GovCloud (US) and the China Regions. To quickly enable the standard across your AWS environment, we recommend that you use Security Hub CSPM central configuration. With this approach, you can enable the standard in all or only some of your organization’s accounts and across all AWS Regions that are linked to Security Hub CSPM with a single action.

To learn more, see CIS v5.0 in the AWS Security Hub CSPM User Guide. To receive notifications about new Security Hub CSPM features and controls, subscribe to the Security Hub CSPM SNS topic . You can also try Security Hub at no cost for 30 days with the AWS Free Tier offering.

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) now offers customers the option to use Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) addresses on new and existing clusters. Customers moving to IPv6 can simplify their network stack by running their databases on a dual-stack network that supports both IPv4 and IPv6.

IPv6 increases the number of available addresses and customers no longer need to manage overlapping IPv4 address spaces in their VPCs (Virtual Private Cloud). Customers can standardize their applications on the new version of Internet Protocol by moving to dual-stack mode (supporting both IPv4 and IPv6) with a few clicks in the AWS Management Console or directly using the AWS CLI.

Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is a fully managed, native JSON database that makes it simple and cost-effective to operate critical document workloads at virtually any scale without managing infrastructure. Amazon DocumentDB support for IPv6 is generally available on version 4.0 and 5.0 in AWS Regions listed in Dual-stack mode Region and version availability . To learn more about configuring your environment for IPv6, please refer to Amazon VPC and Amazon DocumentDB .

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C8gn instances, powered by the latest-generation AWS Graviton4 processors, are available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia, Sydney, Thailand) Region. The new instances provide up to 30% better compute performance than Graviton3-based Amazon EC2 C7gn instances. Amazon EC2 C8gn instances feature the latest 6th generation AWS Nitro Cards, and offer up to 600 Gbps network bandwidth, the highest network bandwidth among network optimized EC2 instances.

Take advantage of the enhanced networking capabilities of C8gn to scale performance and throughput, while optimizing the cost of running network-intensive workloads such as network virtual appliances, data analytics, CPU-based artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) inference.

For increased scalability, C8gn instances offer instance sizes up to 48xlarge, up to 384 GiB of memory, and up to 60 Gbps of bandwidth to Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS). C8gn instances support Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) networking on the 16xlarge, 24xlarge, 48xlarge, metal-24xl, and metal-48xl sizes, which enables lower latency and improved cluster performance for workloads deployed on tightly coupled clusters.

C8gn instances are available in the following AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon, N.California), Europe (Frankfurt, Stockholm), Asia Pacific (Singapore, Malaysia, Sydney, Thailand)

To learn more, see Amazon C8gn Instances . To begin your Graviton journey, visit the Level up your compute with AWS Graviton page . To get started, see AWS Management Console , AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) , and AWS SDKs .

Amazon EC2 now allows customers to modify an instance’s CPU options to optimize the licensing costs of Microsoft Windows license-included workloads. You can now customize the number of vCPUs and/or disable hyperthreading on Windows Server and SQL Server license-included instances to save on vCPU-based licensing costs.

This enhancement is particularly valuable for database workloads like Microsoft SQL Server that require high memory and IOPS but lower vCPU counts. By modifying CPU options, you can reduce vCPU-based licensing costs while maintaining memory and IOPS performance, achieve higher memory-to-vCPU ratios, and customize CPU settings to match your specific workload requirements. For example, on an r7i.8xlarge instance running Windows and SQL Server license included, you can turn off hyperthreading to reduce the default 32 vCPU count to 16, saving 50% on the licensing costs, while still getting the 256 GiB memory and 40,000 IOPS that come with the instance.

This feature is available in all commercial AWS Regions and the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.

To learn more, see CPU options in the Amazon EC2 User Guide and read this blog post .

Today, AWS announced enhanced map styling features for Amazon Location Service, enabling users to further customize maps with terrain visualization, contour lines, real-time traffic data, and transportation-specific routing information. Developers can create more detailed and informative maps tailored for various use cases, such as outdoor navigation, logistics planning, and traffic management, by leveraging parameters like terrain, contour-density, traffic, and travel-mode through the GetStyleDescriptor API.

With these styling capabilities, users can overlay real-time traffic conditions, visualize transportation-specific routing information such as transit and trucks, and display topographic features through elevation shading. For instance, developers can display current traffic conditions for optimized route planning, show truck-specific routing restrictions for logistics applications, or create maps that highlight physical terrain details for hiking and outdoor activities. Each feature operates seamlessly, providing enhanced map visualization and reliable performance for diverse use cases.

These new map styling features are available in the following AWS Regions: US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), Europe (London), Europe (Stockholm), Europe (Spain), and South America (São Paulo). To learn more, please visit the Developer Guide .