Nordic Semiconductor is aiming at Bluetooth LE and Matter applications with a wireless microcontroller equipped with 2Mbyte if non-volatile memory and 512kbyte of ram. Made on a 22nm process, nRF54LM20A, …

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Mouser has signed a global distribution agreement with Quantic Evans, the high-energy density capacitor specialist for mission-critical applications. Quantic Evans’ hybrid capacitors, known as EVANSCAPS, serve diverse markets, including aerospace, …

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Apex, a startup satellite manufacturer, has raised $200 million in Series D funding. It brings the company valuation to $1 billion, reports Reuters. The Los Angeles-based company said the funding …

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The automotive semiconductor market will grow from $68bn in 2024 to $132bn in 2030 – at a 10% CAGR – five times faster than the automotive market, says Yole. The …

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Alphawave Semi, the silicon connectivity specialist, has taped out a 64Gbps UCIe die-to-die (D2D) IP subsystem on TSMC’s 3nm process technology. Building on its 36Gbps Gen2 silicon success, this third-generation …

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Amazon GameLift Servers now supports a new AWS Local Zone in Dallas, Texas (us-east-1-dfw-2). You can use this Local Zone to deploy GameLift Fleets with EC2 C6gn, C6i, C6in, M6g, M6i, M6in, M8g, and R6i instances. Local Zones place AWS services closer to major player population and IT centers where no AWS region exists. From the Amazon GameLift Servers Console, you can enable the Dallas Local Zone and add it to your fleets, just as you would with any other Region or Local Zone.

With this launch, game studios can run latency-sensitive workloads such as real-time multiplayer gaming, responsive AR/VR experiences, and competitive tournaments closer to players in the Dallas metro area. Local Zones help deliver single-digit millisecond latency, giving players a smoother, more responsive experience by reducing network distance between your servers and players.

For more information on AWS Local Zones, please see here . To see a complete list of supported regions and local zones for Amazon GameLift Servers, visit the Amazon GameLift Servers documentation . For pricing, please visit the Amazon GameLift Servers Instance Pricing page .

Today, AWS eliminated the networking bandwidth burst duration limitations for Amazon EC2 I7i and I8g instances on sizes larger than 4xlarge. This update doubles the Network Bandwidth available at all times for i7i and i8g instances on sizes larger than 4xlarge. Previously, these instance sizes had a baseline bandwidth and used a network I/O credit mechanism to burst beyond their baseline bandwidth on a best effort basis. Today these instance sizes can sustain their maximum performance indefinitely. With this improvement, customers running memory and network intensive workloads on larger instance sizes can now consistently maintain their maximum network bandwidth without interruption, delivering more predictable performance for applications that require sustained high-throughput network connectivity. This change applies only to instance sizes larger than 4xlarge, while smaller instances will continue to operate with their existing baseline and burst bandwidth configurations.

Amazon EC2 I7i and I8g instances are designed for I/O intensive workloads that require rapid data access and real-time latency from storage. These instances excel at handling transactional, real-time, distributed databases, including MySQL, PostgreSQL, Hbase and NoSQL solutions like Aerospike, MongoDB, ClickHouse, and Apache Druid. They’re also optimized for real-time analytics platforms such as Apache Spark, data lakehouse, and AI LLM pre-processing for training. These instances have up to 1.5 TiB of memory, and 45 TB local instance storage. They deliver up to 100 Gbps of network performance bandwidth, and 60 Gbps of dedicated bandwidth for Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS).

To learn more, see Amazon EC2 I7i and I8g instances. To get started, see AWS Management Console , AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) , and AWS SDKs .

Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling now enables customers to force cancel instance refreshes immediately, without waiting for in-progress instance launches or terminations to complete. This enhancement provides greater control over Auto Scaling group (ASG) updates, especially during emergency situations such as when needing to rapidly roll forward to a new application deployment when the current deployment is causing service disruptions. Customers can now quickly abort ongoing deployments and immediately start new instance refreshes when needed.

Instance refreshes are used to update instances within an ASG, typically when configuration changes require instance replacement. To use this feature, set the WaitForTransitioningInstances to false when calling the CancelInstanceRefresh API. This enables faster cancellation of the instance refresh, bypassing the wait for any pending instance activities such as instance lifecycle hooks.

This feature is available in all AWS regions, including AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. To get started, please visit Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling user guide .

Today, we are announcing the availability of Route 53 Resolver Query Logging in Asia Pacific (New Zealand), enabling you to log DNS queries that originate in your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC). With query logging enabled, you can see which domain names have been queried, the AWS resources from which the queries originated – including source IP and instance ID – and the responses that were received. 

Route 53 Resolver is the Amazon provided DNS server that is available by default in all Amazon VPCs. Route 53 Resolver responds to DNS queries from AWS resources within a VPC for public DNS records, Amazon VPC-specific DNS names, and Amazon Route 53 private hosted zones. With Route 53 Resolver Query Logging, customers can log DNS queries and responses for queries originating from within their VPCs, whether those queries are answered locally by Route 53 Resolver, or are resolved over the public internet, or are forwarded to on-premises DNS servers via Resolver Endpoints . You can share your query logging configurations across multiple accounts using AWS Resource Access Manager (RAM) . You can also choose to send your query logs to Amazon S3, Amazon CloudWatch Logs, or Amazon Data Firehose. 

There is no additional charge to use Route 53 Resolver Query Logging, although you may incur usage charges from Amazon S3, Amazon CloudWatch, or Amazon Data Firehose. To learn more about Route 53 Resolver Query Logging or to get started, visit the Route 53 Resolver product page  or the Route 53 documentation .

Region switch in Amazon Application Recovery Controller (ARC) is now available in the Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region. Region switch allows you to orchestrate the specific steps to operate your cross-AWS account application resources out of another AWS Region. It provides dashboards for real-time visibility into the recovery process and gathers data from across resources and accounts required for reporting to regulators and compliance teams. Region switch supports failover and failback for active/passive multi-Region approaches, and shift-away and return for active/active multi-Region approaches. When you create a Region switch plan, it is replicated to all the Regions your application operates in. This removes dependencies on the Region you are leaving for your recovery.

To get started, build a Region switch plan using the ARC console, API, or CLI. To learn more, visit the ARC Region switch documentation and pricing page .