Following the announcement of updates to the PostgreSQL database by the open source community, we have updated Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition to support PostgreSQL versions 9.6.22, 10.17, 11.12, and 12.7 in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. These releases contain bug fixes and improvements by the PostgreSQL community. As a reminder, Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL 9.6 will reach end of life on January 31, 2022. Minor version 9.6.22 is limited to upgrades for clusters already running Aurora PostgreSQL 9.6.

Amazon Neptune now supports searching on new data types, such as numbers and dates, in addition to strings when using the full-text search integration with Elasticsearch. This improvement allows Neptune customers to replicate non-string values into an Elasticsearch cluster, such as provided by the Amazon Elasticsearch Service, to run Gremlin or SPARQL queries searching on these values.

Amazon EventBridge schema registry now supports discovery of cross-account events published to an event bus. The EventBridge schema registry stores event structure – or schema – in a shared central location and maps those schemas to code for Java, Python, and Typescript to use events as objects in your code. Schemas from your event bus are automatically added to the registry when you turn on the schema discovery feature. You can connect to and interact with the schema registry from the AWS console, APIs, or through the SDK Toolkits for Jetbrains (Intellij, PyCharm, Webstorm, Rider) and VS Code.

What are the topics covered this week? There’s the MOSFET market, Tim Cook’s performance at Apple, The U.S. Space Force activating its third and final field command, a dilemma for Kioxia, and a big question: is this the worst semi shortage in the industry’s history? 

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Why do people buy smartwatches? Actually not many do – 18 million did in Q2 which was up nearly 50% y-o-y but pretty piddling compared to the 328 million smartphones sold in the quarter. Since, presumably, no one has just a smartwatch without also owning a smartphone, and since a smartphone does everything a smartwatch …

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74 years ago, Motorola introduced a line of Golden View 7 inch vacuum tube-based televisions in 1947, the year the transistor was invented, beginning with the VK101 Consolette model. The Golden View VT71 table model television was designed to be affordable and more than 100,000 units sold in one year. The company’s first transistor-based portable …

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Wirepas,  the Finnish non-cellular 5G specialist, has raised €10 million from previous investors Karma and Tesi. “Thanks to the great market interest and lead customers’ fast time to market targets, we have decided to accelerate the first non-cellular 5G product development,” says CEO Teppo Hemiä, “we knew our solution was special and the need has …

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Q2 foundry revenue grew 6.2% q-o-q to reach $24.407 billion, reports TrendForce. TSMC had revenue of  $13.3 billion, a 3.1% q-o-q  increase. TSMC’s relatively muted growth was mostly caused by a power outage that occurred in TSMC’s Fab14 P7, located in the Southern Taiwan Science Park, in April. The power outage subsequently caused some wafers …

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The James Webb Space Telescope has successfully completed its final tests and is being prepared for shipment ahead of its launch into space. Specifically, the replacement for the Hubble Telescope – a joint NASA, European Space Agency (ESA) and Canada Space Agency (CSA) – will now be shipped to its launch site at Europe’s Spaceport …

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Tower Semiconductor and silicon photonics specialist Quintessent are collaborating to create a Silicon Photonics (SiPho) process with integrated quantum dot lasers to deliver optical connectivity for AL, ML and disaggregated computing (datacentre) markets. The process will build on Tower’s  PH18 production silicon photonics platform and add Quintessent’s III-V quantum dot-based lasers and optical amplifiers to enable a …

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