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Today, AWS Backup announced the availability of AWS Backup Vault Lock. This new feature enhances customers’ ability to protect backups from inadvertent or malicious actions. It helps customers implement safeguards that ensure they are storing their backups using a Write-Once-Read-Many (WORM) model*.

There’s the size of the market for GaN power devices, Tesla shrugging off chip shortages, Infineon’s 50kW automotive-qualified IGBT half bridge for electric and hybrid vehicles and ReRAM technology in a 28nm process.

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I have been trying to fix a little old milling machine I bought (and here), and needed a replacement motor controller. It is a Clarke DCM10, a variant of Sieg’s X1, sometimes knows as a ‘micro mill’. Mine has a ~230V 150W brushed dc motor that needs driving from 240Vac mains power. Almost randomly, I settled …

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Submitting your resignation to Jerry Sanders III was not a painless exercise, as T. J. Rodgers recounts in his book ‘No Excuses Management’. Rodgers’ VCs, Sevin Rosen, had told him to see Sanders in person to resign when Rodgers wanted to leave AMD to found Cypress. On a Monday morning he went to see Sanders. …

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The Finalists have been announced for Euroconsult’s 5th annual Finspace competition, and they include the Glasgow-based R3-IoT. Euroconsult is a consultancy specialising in the space sector. Launched in 2017 as part of the World Satellite Business Week, its Finspace pitch initiative “recognizes and celebrates the most promising start-ups and forward-thinking innovators and disruptors across the …

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The United States Department of Defense (DoD) is seeking ideas for enabling possible government use of commercial satellite networks. Specifically, it is seeking submissions for a “hybrid space architecture” to integrate commercial space sensor and communications capabilities with U.S. Government space systems”. Commercial satellite manufacturers representing the remote sensing, communications, PNT, and integration services sectors …

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August semiconductor sales of $47.2 billion were up 29.7% y-o-y, says the SIA, and 3.3% more than the July 2021 total of $45.7 billion. “Global semiconductor sales remained strong in August, increasing year-to-year across all regional markets and major product categories,” says SIA CEO John Neuffer, “chip shipments have reached record totals in recent months …

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Marvell has announced IP cores for datacentre ICs using TSMC’s 3nm silicon process for a standards-based silicon platform with die-to-die interface IP and TSMC’s  2.5D Chip-on-Wafer-on-Substrate (CoWoS) packaging technology. The two  complementary  die-to-die interfaces are: First, a flexible extra short reach (XSR) interface for connecting multiple die on a package substrate for applications, like co-packaged …

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Zahnradfabrik Friedrichshafen (ZF) has bought 5% of Oxbotica the self-driving car company. The two companies will co-develop a Level 4 self-driving system which will initially be deployed in passenger shuttles in major cities around the world. The  system will be capable of integration  into various vehicles including Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) shuttles to provide passenger and goods transportation …

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