The move was necessitated to support the company’s growth initiatives and increase in customer demand.

The proposed reservoir will have the capacity to store up to 1.8 million acre-feet of water.

Wastewater treatment company Huber has combined laminate technology from Microdyn-Nadir into its VRM rotating membrane system…

NASA’s SpaceApps Challenge 2016 (Best Use of Hardware) has been won by a University of Surrey undergraduate student, James Lynn.

Surrey student wins NASA compo for vital signs monitoring

TSMC expects full capacity utilisation of its 16nm process for the next four months, reports Taiwan’s Central News Agency (CNA). A surge of orders for graphics chips, mobile processors and virtual reality (VR) chips from companies other than Apple means that TSMC 16nm will be fully utilised throughout Q3. This will be reflected in Q3 …

TSMC 16nm booked out till October

Rambus is to buy Semtech’s Snowbush IP for $32.5 million as well as additional payments based upon specific new product sales through the end of 2022. Snowbush IP, formerly part of Semtech’s Systems Innovation Group, provides serial link IP. The acquisition strengthens Rambus’ position in high-growth spaces and meets customer needs in the server, networking …

Rambus buys Snowbush IP

SEMI and SEAJ (Semiconductor Equipment Association of Japan) say Q1 billings were up 3% on Q4 2015 billings but down 13% on Q1 2015 billings at $8.3 billion. Q1 bookings were 2% lower than Q1 2015 and 5% higher than Q4 2015 at $9.4 billion, Q1 billings by region in $bn are: Taiwan 1.89; Korea;1.68; …

Q-on-Q bookings and billings trending positive say SEMI/SEAJ

New from Texas So started an ad 56 years ago in Electronics Weekly’s edition of December 21st 1960. The ad continued: SILICON ALLOY PNP TRANSISTORS CLOSELY CONTROLLED BETA SPREAD HIGH COLLECTOR VOLTAGE (up to 60 V) LOW SATURATION (BOTTOMING) VOLTAGE (100 mV typical) HIGH PEAK CURRENT (100 mA) LOW Ico (0-1 jiA max.) 2S301 2S302 …

New From TI

ARM has expanded its ARM DesignStart initiative to offer simplified and expedited access to EDA tooling and design environments from Cadence and Mentor Graphics. The new partnership builds on the benefits of free access to ARM Cortex-M0 processor IP offered through the DesignStart portal. The new ARM Approved Design Partner program also provides DesignStart users …

ARM expands DesignStart – 45 sample SoCs for $16k

The phone market is changing dramatically with phablets growing well but smartphone growth slowing down. In 2014 smartphones grew 27.8%. In 2015 they grew 10.8%. But this year they’ll only grow 3.1%, says analyst IDC. On the other hand phablets, defined as devices with 5.5 inch screens or bigger, are forecast to have annual double …

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