New water mains including 11,000 feet of new pipe will replace existing infrastructure in some service areas.

New project could save nearly 1 billion gallons a year.

China will deploy 14nm technology next year, says Ye Tianchun, director of the Institute of Microelectronics at the Chinese Academy of Science (pictured). However Ye did not say where the process or processes would be installed. China imported chips worth $227 billion last year and exported chips worth $61.4 billion. The deficit is due mainly …

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Today, the government sets out its plans to ensure personal data would continue to move back and forth between the UK and the EU in a safe, properly regulated way. In the latest of a series of papers looking at the UK’s future partnership with the EU after we have left, the Government will consider …

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Moortec Semiconductor, the Plymouth-based IP  specialists for on-chip monitors and sensors, have brought out an embedded monitoring subsystem for TSMC’s 7nm FinFET (FF) process. Within the subsystem the 7nm Temperature Sensor is a high precision low power junction temperature sensor that has been developed to be embedded into ASIC designs. It can be used for …

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The July SEMI billings figure was $2.27 billion  – 1.4% down on June’s $2.3 billion and 32.8% higher than the $1.71 billion of July 2016. “We observed softening in the equipment billings in July following the strong surge in the first half of the year,” says SEMI CEO  Ajit Manocha. “However, overall, equipment billings remain …

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The 2017 semiconductor market will stop a whisker short of $400 billion, says the World Semiconductor Trade Statistics, but will break through that barrier for the first time next year. According to the WSTS, the semiconductor market will grow 17% to $397 billion in 2017. Memory will grow 50%. In 2018, WSTS is forecasting a …

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Zumtobel supplied luminaires from the Supersystem II SSL product family to the UNESCO World Heritage Site to improve the visitor experience, deliver energy savings, and enable flexibility for new exhibits.

Sensors and software from Tvilight should reduce energy and maintenance costs. Technology specialist Dynniq looks to tie lights to other systems such as traffic.

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