Bills strengthen customer benefits and protections in the Water Code and Public Utilities Code.
SUEZ to build, operate desal plant in Rosarito, Mexico
Company strengthens its presence in Mexico with the contract to build and operate the largest desalination plant in the Americas.
EPA officials announce completion of drinking water system in Durham County, Atlanta
The community has relied on alternate water supplied by the state since 1992 after contamination from leaking fuel tanks was discovered in private wells.
Maxim Addresses The Big Issues
Maxim addressed a number of the industry’s big issues in its bi-annual pre-Electronica briefing in London yesterday. Like many IC vendors Maim sees auto as a big deal. “We expect the automotive market to grow at twice the rate of the overall semiconductor industry,” said Kent Robinett, Maxim’s auto vp. Since the overall semiconductor market …
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Analogix sold to China
Analogix, the HDMI connectivity specialist, has been bought by Beijing Shanhai Capital Management and the China Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund
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What the heck is: PMD9050D
I was browsing around and came across a chip with three transistors that I cannot understand. PMD9050D mosfet driver – an npn transistor and high-speed switching diode supplemented by an npn/pnp transistor pair connected as a silicon-controlled switch in a SOT457 (SC-74). Features include: General-purpose transistor and high-speed switching diode as driver Silicon-controlled switch to bypass …
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Fujitsu streamlines GPUs to double deep learning accuracy
Fujitsu Laboratories streamlines the internal memory of GPUs to support neural networks in a development which has doubled the accuracy of machine learning.
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The Device Which Improved Performance By A Factor Of A Million.
Radar was one of the UK’s saving graces in WWII and moving radar to higher frequencies, which increased range and increased resolution, became a priority. The most important technical breakthrough in achieving the move to higher frequencies was the invention of the cavity magnetron. When, in 1940, the British showed this device to the Americans …
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Amazon Lumberyard Beta 1.5 now available, adds Asset Builder SDK, OSVR support, new components, and more
We are excited to announce the release of Amazon Lumberyard Beta 1.5, which includes 210 new improvements, fixes and features to Amazon’s free, AAA game engine deeply integrated with AWS and Twitch. Lumberyard Beta 1.5 introduces an Asset Builder SDK, so game developers can track, reload, automatically rebuild, and process any asset formats their game requires. Additionally, Lumberyard Beta 1.5 adds support for OSVR virtual reality devices, new component entities so developers can build gameplay with less engineering support, distance-based particle effects optimization, and more. Read about the update in the GameDev Blog and the Lumberyard Beta 1.5 release notes .
The Amazon EMR-DynamoDB Connector for Apache Hive and Apache Spark is now open-source
Amazon Web Services has open-sourced the emr-dynamodb-connector, which enables Apache Hive and Apache Spark on Amazon EMR to access data in Amazon DynamoDB. You can process data directly in Amazon DynamoDB using these applications, or join tables in Amazon DynamoDB with external tables in Amazon S3, Amazon RDS, or other data stores that can be accessed by Amazon EMR. The connector is still included for use on each node in your Amazon EMR cluster. To learn more or contribute to the project, visit the emr-dynamodb-connector GitHub page .