In his book SPINOFF, Charlie Sporck asked Gordon Moore: “When you started Intel, how was the financing done? “Bob and I had enough money out of Fairchild, about a quarter of a million dollars each,” replied Moore, Art got good numbers for the money, and we put in $245,000 each. Art put in $10,000 to …

This story continues at The $3m which grew into $200bn

Or just read more coverage at Electronics Weekly

My mind got boggled again yesterday – someone had found a mineral enclosed in a diamond that bought it up from the Earth’s lower mantle – amazing. I just looked it up – the mineral was our new friend a perovskite – in this case calcium silicate (CaSiO3) and not the Pb-halide type appearing in solar cells. …

This story continues at Diamond carries stuff up from 660km underground

Or just read more coverage at Electronics Weekly

Astroscale Holdings – which specialises in satellite servicing and space debris removal – has announced it will partner with the New Zealand government on matters relating to space safety, debris mitigation and on-orbit servicing in general. The Japanese company has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with New Zealand’s Ministry of Business Innovation & Employment (“MBIE”). …

This story continues at Astroscale and New Zealand partner on space sustainability

Or just read more coverage at Electronics Weekly

Teledyne e2v HiRel has introduced pair of isolated 650V 4A gate drivers aimed at GaN power transistors, offering 2.5kVrms isolation and 100% ac-dc testing at -55 to 125°C. TDGD271 is a single channel driver in 8pad SOIC, while TDGD274 is a dual channel driver in 16pad SOIC. “The TDGD27x family devices are ideal for isolated mosfet, …

This story continues at GaN power transistor drivers for military and high-rel

Or just read more coverage at Electronics Weekly

Amazon QuickSight now only refreshes visuals when switching sheets if required, such as when a parameter filter change is made. This creates a seamless sheet change experience for users by further enhancing QuickSight visual load time performance.

Today, we are excited to announce NVIDIA Triton™ Inference Server  on Amazon SageMaker, enabling customers who choose NVIDIA Triton as their model server to bring their containers and deploy them at scale in SageMaker. 

Amazon SageMaker Autopilot automatically builds, trains, and tunes the best machine learning models based on your data, while allowing you to maintain full control and visibility. As a part of building models, SageMaker Autopilot automatically cleans, prepares and preprocesses data to optimize performance of machine learning models. Starting today, Autopilot generates several additional data insights that can help you improve the quality of data and thereby build higher quality models that better meet your business needs.

Today we are announcing the general availability of Amazon EC2 G5 instances powered by NVIDIA A10G Tensor Core GPUs. 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.

We are excited to announce that blogs, knowledge articles, events, and tutorials are available in Unified Search to enable users to easily search and discover information in the AWS Management Console. AWS users can now search for blogs (e.g., Implementing Auto Scaling for EC2 Mac Instances), knowledge articles (e.g., Set Your Preferences for AWS Emails), tutorials (e.g., Remotely Run Commands on an EC2 Instance), and events (e.g., AWS Container Day) without leaving the AWS Management Console.

Amazon Connect now allows customers to create and orchestrate tasks directly from contact flows based on customer input (e.g., Dual tone multi frequency (DTMF)) or call, chat, and task information (e.g., type, priority/urgency, category, schedule data/time) without any coding required. For example, when a customer reaches out after office hours, you can automatically create a task for an agent to follow with them when available. Amazon Connect Tasks empowers contact center managers to prioritize, assign, track, and automate customer service tasks across the disparate applications used by agents. You can turn on this in a few clicks by using the Create tasks flow block in your contact flows.