Snehal Desai from Dow discusses the company’s strategy for the China market and opportunities for membranes…

Aproximately 50,000 gallons of “mostly treated” wastewater overflowed at St. Petersburg’s Southwest Water Reclamation Facility Wednesday night.

The EU FP7 Si photonics supply chain development project PLAT4M has now been completed, says Leti. Si photonics has long been expected to bring substantial breakthroughs in very high speed data communications, telecommunications and supercomputing. In addition, it is one of the most promising industrial-production candidates because of its potential for large-scale and low-cost production …

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Morris Chang, one of the great semiconductor CEOs, has become a billionaire, reports Bloomberg. Thanks to TSMC’s booming production for iPhone 8, the company’s market cap has soared 25% in the past year to over $182 billion. Chang’s stake  is 0.5%. Presumably Bloomberg assumes that Chang has another $100 million or so in non-TSMC stock …

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Car manufacturers’ trade associations have asked the China government to relax some of its EV regulations. The request has come from the American Automotive Policy Council (AAPC), the European Automobile Manufacturers Association (ACEA), the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association (JAMA) and the Korea Automobile Manufacturers Association (KAMA). China says it wants one fifth of all cars …

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The Raspberry Pi Foundation and UK Government code breaking facility GCHQ have got together to create a public key encryption teaching resource. Find it here and a blog introducing it here. Be warned, if you want to finish the whole educational unit, you will need to build yourself an eight-Raspberry Pi (32 core) mini-supercomputing cluster.

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In Q4, Globalfoundries and VeriSilicon intend to tape out a cellular modem test chip for low-power wide area (LPWA) networks which integrates baseband, power management, RF radio and front-end, combining both Narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) and LTE-M capabilities and fabbed  on a  22nm FD-SOI process. LPWA technology takes advantage of the existing LTE spectrum and mobile infrastructure, …

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These days we’re becoming familiar with new special purpose microprocessor architectures like Google’s 45TFlops TPU2 and Nvidia’s 5,000 core Volta GPU but, 11 years ago, the world seemed stuck. “There really is a technology issue now,” Transputer architect David May told me in 2006, “there’ve been no fundamental architectural enhancements for a long time. Some of this …

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Samsung is recycling some of the Note 7s it recalled after some of the originals caught fire – aside from catching fire, the original phones were well received and popular. The recycled phones are called Galaxy Note Fan Edition, and are recalled phones with a new battery. iFixIt has published a tear-down of the Fan …

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Vodafone will work with Lime Microsystems to develop software-defined cellular radio platforms.

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