The business is based in Gardena, Calif., and terms were not disclosed.

A transcript of the WaterWorld Weekly Newscast for August 8, 2016.

With this approval, Phigenics can help facility managers and owners achieve compliance for New York State Department of Health and New York City Health Department regulations for “Protection Against Legionella”  for cooling towers.

More than $53.2 million in combined funding for two new wastewater treatment plants has been awarded.

ATP, the SSD module supplier, is shipping 3D NAND-based 3D NAND based SSDs including M.2, mSata, SlimSata, 2.5” SSD, eUSB and memory cards. ATP has decided to adopt 3D NAND for its next generation embedded SSDs, in order to gain early understanding on the ins & outs of 3D NAND under extreme conditions, in order …

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Has China managed to acquire 3D NAND technology and, if so, who from? Not many people have it – Intel, Micron, Toshiba/Western Digital, Samsung and Hynix. Would any of them sell the technology to a Chinese would-be competitor? Well, No. But, according to IHS analyst Hue He, China foundry XMC is readying 3D NAND chips …

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Qualcomm has signed up China’s two largest mobile phone makers, VIVO and OPPO, which were in the global top five for handset shipments in Q2. Qualcomm has had trouble getting Chinese phone makers to sign up to license agreements but it now seems to have cracked the big companies. The latest to sign is VIVO …

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Hall sensors from Infineon consume under 1.6mA, have precise switching points, stable operation, compact packaging, replace up to four passive components and come as latch and switch-type sensors. The 5-V versions consume 1.4 mA. They are currently available in high volume. All of the TLx496x Hall sensors – switches and latches – have an integrated …

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A £3,000,000 contract was signed last month in Tokyo between the Sony Corporation of Japan and Television and Electrical Distributors of Johannesburg, for the assembly and distribution of Sony transistor radios in the Union of South Africa and the Central African Federation. So, 55 years ago, started a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of January …

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China has formed the High-End Chip Alliance (HECA) to co-ordinate the country’s efforts to build a semiconductor industry. Among the 27 semiconductor-related organisations involved in HECA are: Tsinghua Unigroup, SMIC, Yangtze River Storage Technology (YRST), Lenovo, Huawei, ZTE, Beijing University, Tsinghua University, Institute of Microelectronics of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Academy of Telecommunication Research, …

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