The acquisition of RMC expands Woodard & Curran’s national footprint to 26 offices in 12 states, and 48 clean water facilities across the country.

More than $2.7M in combined funding has been designated for critical water and storm infrastructure upgrades in the area

A former US naval officer worked at Sylvania, Transitron and Fairchild and invented TTL before founding his own semiconductor company, He first described TTL at the 1962 Weston. Sylvania’s first TTL ICs were launched in 1963, Sylvania integrated 500 of them on a one inch diameter wafer and sold them for $200 apiece. The TTL …

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What is the future of cars? Many and varied is the answer delivered by IDTechEx. Will China flood the planet with basic cheapo electric cars? Will private cars be banned from cities in favour of driverless, taxis and rentals? Will sunny countries want solar-powered cars? Will Japan go for hydrogen-powered cars which can be used …

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The Elektra European Electronics Industry Awards 2016 – find out the winners from the gala evening at the Grosvenor House Hotel, Park Lane.

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A student engineer from the University of Sussex has won the ‘Autocar-Courland Next Generation Award’ for designing a vehicle battery that charges quickly. Josh de Wit, a second-year mechanical engineering student, exploited the qualities of graphene. A car battery made with stacked graphene, according to de Wit, would take far less time to charge, store …

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3D XPoint, Intel’s ‘new class of memory’, will finally hit the street in Q2 2017 in the form of an SSD reports Digitimes. Engineering samples of the SSD which is branded Optane, have been given to selected customers, it is reported. Mass production is planned in Q2 for the technology which was launched in June …

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3D XPoint, Intel’s ‘new class of memory’, will finally hit the street in Q2 2017 in the form of an SSD reports Digitimes.

Read full article: 3D XPoint SSDs due for volume production in Q2

Synthetic diamond made from carbon-14 could become a long-term electrical power source, according to a team at the University of Bristol.

Read full article: Updated: Diamond nuclear battery could generate 100μW for 5,000 years

The Elektra European Electronics Industry Awards 2015 were presented last night, and here are the pictures of all the winners. You can read the full list of winners, with details of the awards – see Elektra Awards 2016: The Winners – but pictures from the Gala Dinner last night, at the Grosvenor House Hotel, follow below …

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