You can now use AWS CloudFormation to manage Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK) cluster configurations and SASL/SCRAM secrets. To learn more about Amazon MSK support for AWS CloudFormation, refer to our AWS CloudFormation documentation .

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL and for MySQL now supports a new Multi-AZ deployment option with one primary and two readable standby database (DB) instances across three Availability Zones (AZs). This deployment option is optimized for write transactions and is ideal when your workloads require lower write latency, automated failovers, and more read capacity.

Thanks to the CIA World Factbook for this one – the top ten countries for birthrate: Births per 1000 people Niger 47 Angola 42 Mali 41 Uganda 41 Benin 41 Chad 41 Congo 40 South Sudan 38 Somalia 38 Mozambique 38 USA is on 12, UK and China each on 11    

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Intel appears to be delivering on its aim to deliver five process nodes in 4 years.  The nodes are 7nm, 4nm, 3nm, 20A and 18A. The head of Intel’s process development, evp Dr Anne Kelkeher, says Intel has delivered to a customer a test chip made on 18A – the most advanced of the processes …

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Zortrax, Polish maker of professional 3D printers, has walked away from negotiations with Rusatom Additive Technologies, which was offering to invest up to $65m in exchange for <50% of Zortrax shares. The formal end was today, when Zortrax chose not to sign an annex prolonging negotiations. “Russian aggression against Ukraine left us all shocked and outraged,” …

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At DVCon US this week, Breker Verification Systems has announced SystemUVM, a framework which simplifies specification model composition for test content synthesis. It uses a universal verification methodology (uvm) /SystemVerilog syntactic and semantic approach to drive test content synthesis and uses AI planning algorithms for deep sequential bug hunting in existing uvm environments, said the …

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Adlink has added Intel Xeon D processors to two computer-on-module form-factors: COM-HPC size-D and COM Express Type 7. They are the Ice Lake-D D-2700 and D-1700 series processors, some of which offer 8x 10Gbit Ethernet, 32 PCIe Gen4 lanes, and AI acceleration. “With industrial-grade reliability and extended temperature range make these modules especially suitable for mission-critical edge …

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Green Hills Software has teamed up with NXP to support driver assistance radar image processing. NXP is providing the hardware: the 16nm S32R45 imaging radar processor, while Green Hills is providing its Integrity real-time operating system (RTOS) and software development tools. “Common software and hardware architecture spanning the S32R45 and S32R41 radar processors enables OEMs …

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The UK Space Agency will co-host the 4th Summit for Space Sustainability, with the Secure World Foundation, in London on 22-23 June. The goal of the summit will be to agree ways of ensuring a more safe and sustainable space environment that’s also secure. It will bring together people from government, industry and civil organisations. …

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Q4 saw the biggest QoQ acceleration in smartphone production last year with 356 million units shipped – a QoQ increase of 9.5%, according to TrendForce. Apple took production leadership in 4Q21 with record high of 85.5 million units – a 66% QoQ increase. Capturing Huawei’s market share was the main factor behind Apple’s Q4 success. …

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