Starting today, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) customers can now create their own Prefix List in the AWS Asia Pacific (Osaka) region. A prefix list is a collection of CIDR blocks that can be used to configure VPC security groups and route tables and share it with other AWS accounts using Resource Access Manager (RAM). Customers can easily audit and apply prefix lists across all their accounts to have a consistent security posture and routing behavior.

The AWS Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) Scholarship program, in collaboration with Intel and Udacity, opens applications for underserved and underrepresented students in tech globally to gain hands on learning, tailored mentoring, and up to two of 2,500 Udacity Nanodegree scholarships awarded annually.

Amazon WorkSpaces is introducing two new graphics bundles based on the EC2 G4dn family: Graphics.g4dn and GraphicsPro.g4dn. These bundles allow you to run graphics- and compute-intensive workloads on desktops in the cloud as cost-effective solutions for graphics applications that are optimized for NVIDIA GPUs using NVIDIA libraries such as CUDA, CuDNN, OptiX, and Video Codec SDK. They come with the NVIDIA T4 Tensor Core GPU that features multi-precision Turing Tensor Cores and RT Cores, AWS custom second generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable (Cascade Lake) processors, and the local NVMe storage designed for applications that require fast access to locally stored data.

I’ve fallen in love, Ed confides to his diary, with the Lord Lieutenant’s wife. Every little breeze whispers Fiona – the most adorable, bewitching woman alive –  she wants to move in with me. My butler approaches: “The Lord Lieutenant is on the line, my Lord.” OMG. Trouble ahead. “You silly sod,” says the Lord …

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You may not be familiar with the Apple Mac Studio a (very expensive, circa £2K) larger update of the (already expensive, £1K) Mac Mini – but here comes iFixit, the repair specialists, to expertly tear the new kit down… The Mac Studio is basically the stand alone computer unit, sans, display, keyboard, mouse and any …

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There’s RISC-V and AI, Spain investing in semiconductors via the EU, Nexperia buying the Newport Wafer Fab and, finally, Intel, Micron, ADI and MITRE Engenuity forming an alliance for ‘American Growth’…

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24 years ago, after their success in DRAM,  the Japanese chip industry had to look for a new mainstream product. “In 1985 the US moved to microprocessors and logic and their choice proved to be very right,” Dr Tsugio Makimoto, president of Hitachi Semiconductor, told me in 1998. “Now it’s our turn,” added Makimoto, “the DRAM …

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Spectrolab has been selected to provide approximately 4,000 XTJ Prime solar cells for NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. The Boeing company – which is based in Sylmar, California – will manufacture, integrate and test the cells under the terms of the agreement with NASA. They will provide power to both the telescope and the …

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February chip sales of $52.5 billion were up 3.4% on January’s $50.7 billion and up 32.4% on the $39.6 billion of February 2021, reports the SIA. “Global semiconductor sales remained strong in February, increasing by more than 20% for the eleventh consecutive month on a year-to-year basis,” says SIA CEO John Neuffer, “sales into the …

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At the end of 2021, 57% of the industry’s total monthly wafer capacity was owned by the top five companies, according to Knometa Research’s Global Wafer Capacity 2022 report. One year earlier the share was 56% and back in 2018 it was 53%. A decade ago, the share held by the top five was about …

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