Mmusi Maimane, leader of South Africa’s opposition party the Democratic Alliance, has slammed the national ministry of water and sanitation for failing in its duties, pointing out the high cost of building desalination plants.

Veolia has investment capacity of $200 million for power and water projects across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) for 2018, regional chief executive Xavier Joseph has told Emirati news outlet The National.

 Israeli startup, Kado and South Korea’s Dongyang have teamed up to develop the world’s thinnest laptop charger. Kado is contributing its thin charging technology and collaborating with Dongyang to complete the development of laptop chargers, which will also become the world’s first foldable charger for laptops, says Kado. The joint work will take place at …

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TSMC is expected to break ground this week for the construction of its $15.7 billion 5nm fab in the Southern Taiwan Science Park (STSP), reports Digitimes. TSMC plans to run trial 5nm silicon in Q1 2019 and start volume production in 2020. In 2020, TSMC intends to break ground on a $25 billion 3nm fab, …

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Qualcomm has filed an application with Taiwan’s Fair Trade Commission (FTC) to pay its $782 million fine in instalments. The Taiwan FTC  imposed the fine on Qualcomm in October  for anti-trust violations aimed at preventing competition in the smartphone market. In what is seen as a quid pro quo for the fine, Qualcomm has broken off …

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Research by ABI Research predicts the spread of smart city technology will more than double from $25 billion in 2017 to $62 billion in 2026 and at an average growth rate of 11%. ABI Research identifies 12 key smart city technologies and verticals, led by smart meters and video surveillance and EV charging stations, micro-grids, …

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Littelfuse has completed its acquisition of IXYS, bringing SiC expertise to the company. The deal, said to be valued at $750 million is the most recent, and largest made by the company, which acquired the TE Connectivity’s circuit protection business in 2015, for $350 million. “As the largest acquisition in our 90-year history, this is …

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The campus at Keele University will become Europe’s first facility for an at-scale, living research laboratory to research, develop and demonstrate smart energy technologies and services. The integrated electricity, gas and heat Smart Energy Network Demonstrator (SEND) will be in partnership with Siemens and will include the digitalisation of 24 substations, the installation over 1,500 …

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Montana is leading the fight by states in the USA against the FCC’s decision to kill net neutrality. Last week 21 states filed a legal challenge to the FCC’s ruling, this week the Governor of Montana, Steve Bullock, said that Montana will only sign contracts with ISPs who retain net neutrality. Last week’s legal action …

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Lumileds has up-graded its Luxeon 5050, reaching flux levels of 350 lm and 175 lm/W at 2W LED drive conditions (4,000K, 70CRI at 85°C). “That sets the standard for high lumen per watt for high bay and street lighting applications,” claimed the firm. “With newly released LM-80 reliability data, the product also meets DLC Premium …

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