I love this time in a new government when there’s loads of ministers in new jobs who know nothing about their ministries and realise they’ve only got  about 18 months […]

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DAC 2026: Siemens has added new Nvidia AI software to its Intelligence Center X, creating a characterisation AI agent for self-verifying semiconductor and PCB design workflows. The autonomous and long-running […]

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Lockheed Martin is expanding its venture capital fund – Lockheed Martin Ventures – for investing in promising defence technologies in British and European markets. The aerospace and defence company’s $1 […]

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The High End Router and Aggregation Switch equipment market is projected to reach $19 billion in revenue by 2030, says Dell’Oro. The primary growth driver over the next five years […]

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At an event at the weekend dubbed ‘AMD Advancing AI’, CEO Lisa Su (pictured) announced a number of launches: Launch of  Helios: AMD revealed what it claimed to be ‘the […]

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Tesla’s robotaxi initiative appears to be stalling with the number of “paid robotaxi miles” the same in Q2 as Q1 and the planned  expansion of service to seven cities  only […]

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The perennial open v closed source debate has flared up in the AI industry with industry leaders taking sides. Last week a letter stating that Open Source software is “essential […]

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Earlier today shares in CXMT, China’s biggest DRAM company, opened 472% higher in their Shanghai IPO, reaching a $487bn valuation. The company, the world’s fourth largest DRAM vendor, raised $9.8bn. […]

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In 1999 the prospect of Wireless Internet access devices was exciting some people, but leaving others cold. Brian Halla, National Semiconductor’s CEO, said the industry was “undergoing a shift in […]

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Amazon Web Services (AWS) announces the availability of Amazon EC2 I8ge instances in AWS Europe (London) and Canada (Central)  regions. I8ge instances are powered by AWS Graviton4 processors and deliver up to 60% better compute performance compared to previous generation Graviton2-based storage optimized Amazon EC2 instances. I8ge instances use the third generation AWS Nitro SSDs, local NVMe storage, and deliver up to 55% better real-time storage performance per TB compared to previous generation Amazon EC2 Im4gn instances . They offer up to 60% lower storage I/O latency and up to 75% lower storage I/O latency variability compared to Im4gn instances.

I8ge instances are storage-optimized instances, and offer up to 120TB of local NVMe storage. They are ideal for workloads that demand rapid local storage with high random read/write performance and consistently low latency for accessing large datasets. These versatile instances are offered in eleven different sizes including two metal sizes, providing flexibility to match customers’ computational needs. They deliver up to 180 Gbps of network performance bandwidth and 60 Gbps of dedicated bandwidth for Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), ensuring fast and efficient data transfer for the most demanding applications.

To begin your Graviton journey, visit the Level up your compute with AWS Graviton page . To get started, see AWS Management Console , AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) , and AWS SDKs . To learn more, visit the I8ge instances page.