The Manfouha sewage treatment plant in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia is being expanded to help reuse wastewater for irrigation and agriculture in the region…

UAE company Utico Middle East is to invest $185 million to more than double its desalination capacity over two years, reports Reuters.

The SIA reports that semi sales for June 2016 reached $26.4 billion, up 1.1% over May’s $26.1 billion, but down 5.8% on June 2015 Q2 sales of semiconductors reached $79.1 billion during Q2 2016, up 1% on May and down 5.8% from Q2 2015. H1 sales were 5.8% lower than H1 2015 “Global semiconductor sales …

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Consumer and mobile MEMS sensor revenue declined by 3.4% in 2015 with slow growth expected to start from 2017, according to IHS Markit. While microphones and other MEMS categories grew, other categories declined – most notably, motion sensors. The three leading consumer and mobile MEMS sensor suppliers globally, based on 2015 revenue, were ST at …

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IBM has micro-machined a structure which separates biological particles between 20 and 140nm into different size categories. Known as exosomes, these fragments of life are found in bodily fluids such as blood, saliva or urine. Determining the size (this IBM work), surface proteins and nucleic acid cargo of exosomes can indicate the presence and state of developing cancer …

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Skeleton Technologies, the ultracapacitor specialist, has received €13 million in new investment led by FirstFloor Capital, a Malaysian venture capital investment firm specialising in funding high-growth technology companies. The Round C investment, which also includes existing Skeleton Technologies’ investors UP Invest and Harju Elekter, brings total financing to €26.7 million and will support Skeleton Technologies …

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There was a time when phone competition was all about process nodes, processor speeds, battery life and memory capacity. Now it’s about beauty. Samsung has reported successful Q2 sales of its S7 model – launched in February – and what appears to be attracting buyers are its curved edges, its OLED display which allows the …

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Linear Technology has introduces a precision 32bit successive approximation register (SAR) analog-to-digital converter (ADC), which also offers a 14bit 1Msample/s low latency output. “Many high performance applications, including data acquisition, industrial control and medical instrumentation, require both accuracy and speed,” said the firm. “This is often achieved by using a high resolution delta-sigma ADC and a …

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If you ask Bob Dobkin which analogue companies he admires, the list is short: “ADI”. That helps explain why he is selling the company he co-founded 35 years ago to ADI. In 1981, Bob Swanson, Bob Widlar and Bob Dobkin left National to found Linear Tech. Widlar was the greatest IC designer the industry ever …

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Planar-lighting-enabled parking-area lighting combined with linear surface-mount LED fixtures and traditional LED area lights to deliver an 81% reduction in energy usage for a hospital parking lot.