The UK is working on alternatives to engagement in the EU scientific research programme Horizon Europe – the updated Horizon 2020 – reports the Daily Telegraph. In the Brexit withdrawal agreement the UK agreed to remain part of the Horizon programmes after Brexit and to contribute £2.1 billion a year towards the Horizon budget. However the EU …

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Advantest is aiming at software-based functional testing and USB/PCIe scan testing of ICs with USB and PCIe ‘Link Scale’ digital channel cards for its V93000 Smart Scale or V93000 EXA Scale Systems. USB version “Many of today’s complex SoCs, microprocessors, graphics processors and AI accelerators incorporate high-speed digital interfaces such as USB or PCIe.,” according to …

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NXP is aiming at 5G infrastructure with silicon-germanium transmit pre-drivers and dual-channel receive front-end modules. BTS6201U 2.3 – 4.2GHz pre-driver 3 x 3 x 0.85mm 16pad HVQFN BTS6302U 2.3 – 5GHz pre-driver 3 x 3 x 0.85mm 16pad HVQFN BTS7203H 2.3 – 2.7GHz +37dB dual LNA 5 x 5 x 0.85mm 32pad HVQFN BTS7203U 3.3 – 4.2GHz  +36dB …

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Toshiba is to restructure itself into three separate entities, reports the Nikkei. One will focus on devices e.g. HDDs, one on infrastructure, e.g. power stations, and one on semiconductor memory. However it is possible that Kioxia, the NAND business in which Toshiba has a 40% stake, may be put under the management of the devices …

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Amazon Polly, a service that turns text into speech (TTS), launches 2 new neural TTS voices. You can now use Lucia for Castilian Spanish and Bianca for Italian. With this launch, we now offer 22 neural TTS voices across 12 languages. With these voices, you can create applications that talk, and build entirely new categories of speech-enabled products.

AWS Backup announces the addition of Amazon Neptune to its portfolio of supported services. This is a new functionality in AWS Backup that allows you to create automated periodic snapshots of Amazon Neptune clusters using your centralized data protection policy across the supported AWS services for database, storage, and compute.

AWS Backup announces support for Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility), allowing you to centrally manage data protection of your DocumentDB clusters along with other supported AWS services for database, storage, and compute.

The Amazon Chime SDK now has meeting API endpoints in the US West (Oregon), Europe (Frankfurt) and Asia Pacific (Singapore) AWS Regions, providing customers a choice of which AWS Region they use to create and manage meetings which can be hosted in any of the 18 Amazon Chime media regions.

You can now create and run AWS Fault Injection Simulator (FIS) experiments that check the state of Amazon CloudWatch alarms and run AWS Systems Manager (SSM) Automations. You can also now run new FIS experiment actions that inject I/O, network black hole, and packet loss faults into your Amazon EC2 instanes using pre-configured SSM Agent documents. Because it can be difficult to predict how applications will respond to stress under real world conditions whether in testing or production environments, integrating alarm checks and automated runbooks into your FIS experiments can help you gain more confidence when injecting disruptive events such as network problems, instance termination, API throttling, or other failure conditions.

Amazon SageMaker Pipelines, a purpose-built service which enables customers to define and orchestrate their model building steps, now supports resuming execution of a failed/stopped pipeline, and retry policies for pipeline steps.