Drought-hit Cuba is to build five desalination plants, according to reports in several Vietnamese news outlets, including vietnambreakingnews.com.

Italian water treatment firm Culligan has introduced a new skid-mounted seawater RO desalination solution, SW Evo, and a containerised membrane bio reactor system.

The share price of AquaVenture Holdings has been steadily increasing following an initial public offering earlier this month…

Alliance provides flexible financing for organizations interested in acquiring the company’s water and wastewater transport and treatment solutions.

I have has a mini-struggle getting my computer back to Windows 7. I trans-graded to Windows 10 on one of my home computers, only to find that it would no-longer communicate via its Wi-Fi adaptor. Rather than fiddle around with it then and there, I left it. The other night, I was looking for something …

Read full article: Reinstalling Windows 7, then getting ‘update’ to work

Goepel Electronic will use next month’s Electronica exhibition in Munich to present a 2D/3D camera module for optically inspecting PCBs and ball grid-array chip packages. 3-D imaging is now making its impact on automated optical inspection (AOI) and the key feature, says Goepel, is providing shadow-free 3D measurement. What it has done with the 3D·ViewZ module is …

Read full article: 3-D imaging makes an impact on PCB optical inspection

Silicon IP developer Ceva has come up with a slimline processor core that is optimised for running mobile baseband processing in  low data rate industrial and consumer loT devices. The CEVA-X1 IoT processor deploys a single-core processor plus DSP architecture which has been designed for implementing the latest LTE Cat-M1 (formerly eMTC) and Cat-NB1 (formerly NB-IoT) standards as well as future FeMTC …

Read full article: Ceva processor tackles IoT wireless standards

Mentor Graphics has announced in the run-up to the Electronica exhibition that it will buy Galaxy Semiconductor, defect reduction software for the semiconductor industry. According to the EDA company, Galaxy’s test data analysis tools can be used for maximising device yields, improving test quality and reducing DPM (defects per million) in semiconductor production. Joe Sawicki, general manager of Mentor …

Read full article: Mentor acquires chip defect reduction tool firm Galaxy

If you want to accelerate SoCs using FPGA cores you can pay $16.7 billion for an FPGA company – as Intel did. Or you could license an FPGA core from Achronix. What’s more, while Intel is putting Altera dies into dual-die packages containing a Xeon die and an FPGA die – while saying it “eventually” …

Read full article: Save $16.7bn – buy an Achronix eFPGA licence

NXP was showing a 1.5kW LDMOS power transistor in a plastic package at European Microwave Week in London.

Read full article: Plastic power transistor handles 1.5kW at 500MHz