A transcript of the WaterWorld Weekly Newscast for October 30, 2017.

EPA awards over $282,000 to tribe.

WEF’s Executive Director urged congress to protect federal funding for water research in a letter.

Despite Brexit, Silicon Valley VCs are pumping money into UK tech start-ups, report London & Partners, the Mayor of London’s promotional agency. UK start-ups received £884.8m from Bay Area VCs in the first nine months of this year, compared to £342m in the whole of 2016, says the agency. Major deals include Andreessen Horowitz’s investment …

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TrendForce has produced its forecasts for 2018: 1. Tight supply, high prices to continue in DRAM market 2. AI’s influence on the semiconductor industry will expand 3. Numerous fabs in China will come on-stream. 4. OLED penetration in smartphones will increase from 28% to 33% 5. 5G deployment begins 6. Voice-based personal assistants will drive …

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Despite the rising financial fortunes of ST, there are staff shortages at Isère and Crolles with difficulty in hiring and retaining staff

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With President Trump denying China access to Lattice’s technology, the nascent China FPGA industry is looking to develop home-grown programmable logic. Digitimes reports that Shanghai Anlogic Information Technology vp Chen Li-guang says that China will have to develop the technology by themselves while concentrating on expanding their market share by focussing on entry-level products. Chen …

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Mouser has signed connectivity specialist Helium to a global distribution agreement. Helium says its products reduce IoT cost of operation. Their product line features Atom Modules, starter kits, and adapters plus Element Access Points The Atom Modules,  available in surface-mount and prototyping versions, are  dual-band RF communication modules for IoT-enabled wireless products. The Atom incorporates a …

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UR5641 is transparent and flame retardant ideally suited to the protection of LEDs.

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Green Hills Software is supporting secure system development on the Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC from Xilinx with its Integrity real-time operating system (RTOS) and supporting tools. Zynq UltraScale+ integrates 64-bit ARM Cortex-A53 processor cores and an FPGA fabric which is being used in applications for automotive intelligence, industrial vision and defence. The secure RTOS allows software of different levels of …

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