A transcript of the WaterWorld Weekly newscast for the week of July 18, 2016.

EPA’s contractor will continue work through October 2016.

Relationship further expands Nalco Water’s total water management solutions.

Processor IP firm Ceva will unveil technology for next-generation silicon chipsets for LTE-Advanced Pro and  5G smartphones later this month at the Linley Mobile & Wearables Conference in Santa Clara, California. Linley Gwennap, principal analyst of the Linley Group, writes: “Ceva has a long and successful heritage in DSP IP for LTE, and in fact, powered …

Ceva unveils IP for first 5G smartphone chips

Cambridge Medical Robotics is developing a medical robotics system which it claims can make surgery less invasive and open the way for universal keyhole techniques. The medical device firm started first clinical cadaveric trials last month and has now secured $20.3m venture funding to help commercialise its medical robotics technology. It also plans a recruitment programme. …

Cambridge firm has medical robotics success

The most notable thing to record this month is Android Marshmallow increasing more than 30% (statistics, statistics – it’s only from 10.1% to 13.3%).

Android Marshmallow share expands slowly

The proposed $32bn ARM takeover by Japanese firm SoftBank has caught the semiconductor market by surprise. Most observers believe that the processor IP which is the main ARM business was so important to so many chip makers that ARM’s independence was too strategically important to the market to be broken. As a result it was …

Comment: IoT made ARM takeover inevitable

The next country in line for a Qualcomm pay-out is Korea. The Korea Times reports that the Korea Fair Trade Commission is looking at fining Qualcomm up to $900 million. Last year China took $975 million off Qualcomm for unfair trading practices. The Korea FTC has held a 17 month investigation into Qualcomm’s business practices. …

Korea set to fine Qualcomm

Is it sensible to pay $32 billion for a company which makes a profit of $660 million? Received wisdom was that ARM’s market cap was so big compared to its profits that no one would be crazy enough to buy it. Now someone is. It was also thought that big ARM customers like Apple and …

Is SoftBank Crazy?

ARM is to be sold to SoftBank of Japan for $32 billion – $10 billion more than the pre-offer market cap. ARM’s board is to recommend the deal to shareholders. The government may also have to approve the deal. SoftBank says it will: Keep the senior management team, business model and culture; Keep the HQ …

Softbank to buy ARM