Q2 PC shipments of over 63 million units were up 4.4% YoY, says Gartner. “In the second quarter of 2025, enterprise demand outpaced consumer demand, underpinned by Windows 11 migrations …

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The datacentre processor market will grow from $147 billion in 2024 to $372 billion by 2030, reflecting the expansion of generative AI, says Yole. The server GPU market is driving …

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The University of California Santa Barbara has improved the integration of monolithic III-V lasers on silicon substrates. What has emerged from the research are narrow-band well-behaved lasers that are compatible …

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Toshiba has picked its 4.9 x 6.1 x 1mm ‘SOP Advance(E)’ package for a pair of industrial n-channel mosfets: TPM1R908QM 80V 238A 1.68mΩ max TPM7R10CQ5 150V 120A 7.1mΩ max Maximum …

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Irncore has introduced a series of 49 x 40mm 1kW planar transformers, designed for military, aerospace, automotive and industrial applications. Called the PL105xx family, there are designed to run at …

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HPE has been awarded £740 million by the High Court in London following its case against the CEO and CFO of Autonomy, Mike Lynch and Sushovan Hussain. HP had asked for …

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Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) now supports up to 5x more partitions per Express Broker, improving price-performance by up to 50% for partition-bound workloads. Express Brokers are a broker type in Amazon MSK that provide up to 3x more throughput, up to 20x faster scaling, and up to 90% faster recovery compared to Standard Apache Kafka brokers. With this launch, partition-bound workloads can be hosted on fewer brokers. For example, m7g.16xlarge instances now support up to 20,000 partitions per broker vs 4,000 partitions previously. To further improve the resilience of your clusters, Amazon MSK now also now limits the maximum number of partitions that can be created per Express Broker. These quotas help maintain cluster stability by preventing partition counts from exceeding safe thresholds at these higher limits.

The increased partition support is particularly valuable for streaming applications requiring numerous topics, micro-service architectures with many small topics, and data ingestion pipelines supporting multiple data sources among others. These improvements are now available across all AWS regions where Amazon MSK Express Brokers are offered, at no additional cost. To learn more about partition limits for different instance types and best practices for scaling your Apache Kafka workloads, visit our documentation .

AWS Graviton4-based R8g database instances are now generally available for Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility and Amazon Aurora with MySQL compatibility in the AWS US West (N. California) region. R8g instances offer larger instance sizes, up to 48xlarge and features an 8:1 ratio of memory to vCPU, and the latest DDR5 memory. Graviton4-based instances provide up to a 40% performance improvement and up to 29% price/performance improvement for on-demand pricing over Graviton3-based instances of equivalent sizes on Amazon Aurora databases, depending on database engine, version, and workload.

AWS Graviton4 processors are the latest generation of custom-designed AWS Graviton processors built on the AWS Nitro System. R8g DB instances are available with new 24xlarge and 48xlarge sizes. With these new sizes, R8g DB instances offer up to 192 vCPU, up to 50Gbps enhanced networking bandwidth, and up to 40Gbps of bandwidth to the Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS).

You can launch Gravitona4 R8g database instances in the Amazon RDS Management Console or using the AWS CLI . Upgrading a database instance to Graviton4 requires a simple instance type modification . For more details, refer to the Aurora documentation .

Amazon Aurora is designed for unparalleled high performance and availability at global scale with full MySQL and PostgreSQL compatibility. It provides built-in security, continuous backups, serverless compute, up to 15 read replicas, automated multi-Region replication, and integrations with other AWS services. To get started with Amazon Aurora, take a look at our getting started page .

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB now supports AWS Graviton4-based M8g database instances in Asia Pacific (Hyderabad) and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) regions and R8g database instances in AWS US West (N. California) regions. For complete information on pricing and regional availability, please refer to the Amazon RDS pricing page .

Graviton4-based instances provide up to a 40% performance improvement and up to 29% price/performance improvement for on-demand pricing over Graviton3-based instances of equivalent sizes on Amazon RDS open source databases, depending on database engine, version, and workload.

M8g and R8g database instances are available on Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL version 17.1 and higher, 16.1 and higher, 15.2 and higher, 14.5 and higher, and 13.8 and higher. M8g and R8g database instances are available on Amazon RDS for MySQL version 8.0.32 and higher, and Amazon RDS for MariaDB version 11.4.3 and higher, 10.11.7 and higher, 10.6.13 and higher, 10.5.20 and higher, and 10.4.29 and higher. For more details on these instances and supported versions for each region, refer to the Amazon RDS User Guide . Get started by creating a fully managed M8g or R8g database instance using the Amazon RDS Management Console .

For complete information on pricing and regional availability, please refer to the Amazon RDS pricing page . For information on specific engine versions that support these DB instance types, please see the Amazon RDS documentation .

AWS Graviton3-based R7g database instances are now generally available for Amazon Aurora with PostgreSQL compatibility and Amazon Aurora with MySQL compatibility in Asia Pacific (Osaka), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Canada West (Calgary), Europe (Zurich), Europe (Paris), Israel (Tel Aviv), Middle East (UAE) and AWS GovCloud (US-East) regions. Graviton3 instances provide up to 30% performance improvement over Graviton2 instances for Aurora depending on database engine, version, and workload.

Graviton3 processors offer several improvements over Graviton2 processors. Graviton3-based R7g are the first AWS database instances to feature the latest DDR5 memory, which provides 50% more memory bandwidth compared to DDR4, enabling high-speed access to data in memory. R7g database instances offer up to 30Gbps enhanced networking bandwidth and up to 20 Gbps of bandwidth to the Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS).

You can launch Graviton3 R7g database instances in the Amazon RDS Management Console or using the AWS CLI . Graviton3 is supported by Aurora MySQL version 3.03.1 and higher, and Aurora PostgreSQL version 13.10 and higher, Aurora PostgreSQL 14.7 and higher, and Aurora PostgreSQL 15.2 and higher. Upgrading a database instance to Graviton3 requires a simple instance type modification . For more details, refer to the Aurora documentation .

Amazon Aurora is designed for unparalleled high performance and availability at global scale with full MySQL and PostgreSQL compatibility. It provides built-in security, continuous backups, serverless compute, up to 15 read replicas, automated multi-Region replication, and integrations with other AWS services. To get started with Amazon Aurora, take a look at our getting started page .