Company will provide granular activated carbon and associated equipment systems for the removal of the chemicals from groundwater in the city of Chino, CA.

A Malaysian water company switched to an automated colorimetric analyzer and entirely eliminated the monthly expense of reagents, as well as reducing operation costs…

JEDEC  has formed a new  committee –  JC-70 Wide Bandgap Power Electronic Conversion Semiconductors. Led by interim chairs from Infineon, TI, and Wolfspeed, the JC-70 committee will initially have two subcommittees: GaN and SiC and focus on Reliability and Qualification Procedures; Datasheet Elements and Parameters; and Test and Characterisation Methods. JC-70’s first committee meeting will be …

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Entrepreneur First, the London-based start-up seed investor, has secured £9.5m in funding and its backers include California-based venture capital firm Greylock Partners led by LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman. Entrepreneur First (EF) was founded by Alice Bentinck and Matt Clifford in 2012, and it has helped seed over 120 technology companies. Most notably London-based artificial intelligence start-up, …

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Intersil claims to be the first to develop av 42V single-channel DC/DC step-down power module that delivers up to 15A of continuous current. The ISL8215M operates from a single wide input voltage range that includes industry standard 12V, 18V, and 24V intermediate bus power rails. The module offers adjustable output voltages from 0.6V to 12V, …

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Codeplay, the Edinburgh vision specialist, has teamed up with Renesas on driverless cars. The development will create 30 jobs in Edinburgh. “Codeplay has already worked directly with the world’s greatest processors providing advanced software solutions,” saysc Andrew Richards, founder and CEO of Codeplay Software, “we are excited to be enabling Renesas great products. It endorses …

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The various regional authorities of the Cardiff Capital Region (CCR) have signed an agreement to support the Cardiff Compound Semiconductor Cluster. The CCR regional cabinet previously agreed to contribute £37.9m from the CCR City Deal’s Wider Investment Fund towards the establishment of a facility to anchor in the region for the production of compound semiconductors. …

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Wolfspeed has introduced 28V GaN HEMT RF power devices  capable of higher frequency operation to 8GHz. The 28V GaN HEMT devices are made on Wolfspeed’s 0.25µm GaN-on-SiC process, and are designed with the same package footprint as the previous generation of 0.4µm devices, making it possible for RF design engineers to use them as drop-in …

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Mouser  is now stocking the Feather nRF52 Bluefruit from Adafruit. The Feather nRF52 Bluefruit, part of Adafruit’s Feather line of standalone and stackable development boards, is a complete Arduino-compatible, Bluetooth low energy development board with built-in USB and battery charging. Using the onboard Nordic SoC,  engineers and makers can run code directly on the board …

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Western Digital has issued a response to Toshiba’s statement that it has signed a non-binding memorandum to agree a sale of the memory unit to the Bain/Hynix bidding condsortium. The statement reads: “We are disappointed that Toshiba would take this action despite Western Digital’s tireless efforts to reach a resolution that is in the best …

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