We’ve updated three courses designed specifically to help APN Partners identify areas of cost savings and data center economics for their customers. Partners will learn how to utilize market data, customer engagement models, and customer use cases to identify customer opportunities to move workloads to AWS. All courses have updated APN Partner tools and resources that help partners grow their business with AWS.

Amazon Managed Blockchain now supports AWS CloudFormation for creating and configuring networks, members, and peer nodes. Managed Blockchain is a fully managed service that makes it easy to create and manage scalable blockchain networks across multiple AWS accounts. CloudFormation allows you to model and provision cloud resources as code in a safe, predictable, and consistent manner. With CloudFormation support for Managed Blockchain, you can create new blockchain networks and define network configurations, create a member and join an existing network, and describe member and network details such as voting policies. You can also create and configure peer nodes for your members in the network.

AWS Step Functions now allows you to orchestrate more complex processes by composing modular, reusable workflows. 

Amazon Rekognition provides a comprehensive set of face detection, analysis, and recognition features for image and video analysis. Today, we are launching accuracy and functionality improvements to our face analysis features. Face analysis generates metadata about detected faces in the form of gender, age range, emotions, attributes such as ‘Smile’, face pose, face image quality and face landmarks. With this release, we have further improved the accuracy of gender identification. In addition, we have improved accuracy for emotion detection (for all 7 emotions: ‘Happy’, ‘Sad’, ‘Angry’, ‘Surprised’, ‘Disgusted’, ‘Calm’ and ‘Confused’) and added a new emotion: ‘Fear’. Lastly, we have improved age range estimation accuracy; you also get narrower age ranges across most age groups. 

AWS Elemental MediaConvert now supports the creation of content protected by multiple Digital Rights Management (multi-DRM) technologies using Common Media Application Format (CMAF), and has expanded the number of audio tracks supported.

Intel maintained its early egalitarian culture for several decades after it was founded. In the mid-90s, when Intel was one of the world’s ten most valuable companies measured by market cap, Gordon Moore, then chairman, observed: “We have so many people in Santa Clara that if tou leave during the day, it’s difficult to get …

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Perovskite materials could make a splash in light emission as well as solar power generation, according to researchers at Tokyo Tech who have engineered associated charge transport layers to achieved a significant performance boost. The result is a green ∼500,000cd/m2 33 lm/W perovskite (CsPbBr3) LED,  a 20,000cd/m2 CsPbBrI2 red LED and a CsPbBrCl2 blue one. A very similar …

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Arm’s Q2 revenues grew 9.7% year-on-year to $418 million for the quarter although royalty revenue fell 8% due to dampening smartphone demand. Arm Q1 2020 (quarter ending 30 June 2019) revenues (Source: SoftBank Group) Arm said it sold 28 licenses in Q1 including two licenses for unnanounced technologies. 19 Nineteen licensees were for iCortex-M. Q1 …

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Intel, which lost its industry leadership crown to Samsung in 2017, has led Samsung for the the third consecutive quarter with Q2 revenues of $15.5 billion compared with Samsung’s Q2 revenues of  just under $13 billion, reports IHS Markit. Samsung held onto the crown in 2018 but, by Q4 of 2018, Intel had taken the …

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DRAM revenue fell 9% in Q2 compared to Q1, says DRAMeXchange and the  contract price continues to fall in Q3. Server DRAM prices fell 35% in the quarter. Mobile DRAM prices fell by 10-20%. The ASP for 8GB modules hit $25 after being at $31 in Q1. Samsung’s bit shipments were up 15% q-o-q but …

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