Q3 contract prices of PC DRAM are up 3-8% up on Q2 – less than the 25% increase of  Q2 on Q1, says TrendForce. The gradual lifting of COVID-related restrictions in Europe and the US is likely to lower the overall demand for notebook computers, thereby pulling down the overall demand for PC DRAM. TrendForce …

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A method for manufacturing electronics which prints high-performance silicon directly onto flexible materials has been described by engineers from the University of Glasgow’s Bendable Electronics and Sensing Technologies (BEST) group. The current transfer printing process has a number of limitations which have made it challenging to create more large-scale, complex flexible devices. Precisely controlling critical variables like …

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Our part-search-and-price-comparison engine, dubbed EW Compare, is powered by OEMSecrets. And the team behind the Bill of Materials tool and API are celebrating their 10th anniversary with improvements to both their website and search tools. They have launched their latest update by removing the login and opening up to the tool for free use by …

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Getting ESD protection right for CAN-FD NOVEMBER 30, 2020 By Lukas Droemer The expectations of travel and human interaction with vehicles is changing dramatically. As such, mega trends of increased connectivity, autonomous driving and electrification are pushing the evolution of automotive wiring harnesses and driving the growing demand for high-speed data transmission and bandwidth to …

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Lead times are trending up says a report from Susquehanna Financial Group. Average industry lead time is now 20.2 weeks says Susquehanna which is the longest it’s been since it began tracking chip lead times four years ago. MCU lead times increased in July and are at 26.5 weeks, says the report. However the lead …

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Tractable and Graphcore are working together to accelerate the use of AI in accident and disaster recovery. Tractable – whose technology makes assessing damage to cars and property more accurate and efficient – achieved a 5X performance improvement with its image recognition system by switching from its existing compute platform to Graphcore’s IPU. The dramatic acceleration …

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AWS Amplify Hosting now supports deploying and hosting server-side rendered (SSR) apps built with version 11 of Next.js with zero configuration. Amplify Hosting supports all the latest Next.js features including incremental static regeneration, automatic image optimization, and script optimization.

Starting today, interactive EC2 Serial Console is available in AWS GovCloud (US), us-west-1, ca-central-1, eu-west-2 , eu-west-3 , ap-northeast-2 , ap-south-1 , sa-east-1 and eu-north-1 regions.

Amazon CloudWatch Logs now supports CloudWatch usage metrics, enabling you to monitor your CloudWatch Logs API Usage. Using usage metrics, you can create alarms to be notified when you’re approaching a CloudWatch Logs API service quota and visualize your usage on CloudWatch dashboards.

Building on the Hugging Face deep learning containers released earlier this year, Amazon SageMaker is now making it even easier to deploy and fine-tune the state-of-the-art natural language processing models (NLP) with just a few clicks using Amazon SageMaker JumpStart. Amazon SageMaker JumpStart helps you quickly and easily get started with machine learning (ML). SageMaker JumpStart provides a set of solutions for the most common use cases that can be deployed readily with just a few clicks, and supports one-click deployment and fine-tuning of popular open source models such as natural language processing, object detection, and image classification models. These solutions are fully customizable and showcase the use of AWS CloudFormation templates and reference architectures so you can accelerate your ML journey. SageMaker JumpStart is also integrated in Amazon SageMaker Studio, our fully integrated development environment (IDE) for ML, making it intuitive to discover models, solutions, and more.