Starting today AWS Mobile Hub has added a new feature making it easier for GitHub community developers to directly deploy AWS cloud resources from GitHub with a click of a button and build cloud-enabled mobile, web or hybrid applications.
Singapore’s Choa Chu Kang upgrade to ship in Granular Activated Carbon
US company Calgon Carbon will provide 2.9 million pounds of Granular Activated Carbon (GAC) for the upgrade of the Choa Chu Kang Waterworks in Singapore…
LG Chem to supply RO membranes for Metito’s Egypt project
LG Chem will supply its reverse osmosis membranes to a desalination plant being built by Metito in El Galalah, Egypt…
Bahamas desalination deal helps GE strike project quartet in Eleuthera
The Water and Sewerage Corporation of the Bahamas has awarded GE a contract to build a fourth seawater reverse osmosis desalination plant on the Caribbean island of Eleuthera…
ADI 6GHz radio platform leads way to 5G
Analog Devices is addressing the migration of 4G mobile radio design to pre-massive MIMO systems through is wireless basestation development platform called RadioVerse. Additions to RadioVerse now include a new focus on lower power radio development with new radio transceiver hardware and software tools. According to ADI, this will support the development of radio designs …
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LTC buck-boost charge pump integrates watchdog timer
The LTC3246 is a compact, low noise buck-boost charge pump with integrated watchdog timer capable of up to 500mA of output current. The LTC3246 uses multimode switched capacitor conversion to maintain regulation over a wide 2.7V to 38V input voltage range and produces a regulated 3.3V, 5V, or externally adjustable (2.5V to 5V) output. Internal …
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Penny-Pinching UK Space Effort
Penny per head on space research MP’s told. was the headline, 57 years ago, on a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of March 29th 1961. The story opens: THE Americans are spending £3 10s a year per head of population on space development and the Russians an equivalent amount, but the British, the most inventive, …
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Portable scope + data recorder has vast array of input options
Yokogawa’s portable DL350 ‘ScopeCorder’ combines general-purpose oscilloscope features with a high-performance data recorder. “Unlike alternative portable measuring solutions such as oscilloscopes and combined oscilloscope/multimeters, it adds high levels of precision and accuracy to field measurements, isolated inputs for measurements at high voltage levels, and long-memory capabilities that allow recording for many hours or days,” said …
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TSMC and UMC May revenues down y-o-y
TSMC had May revenues of $2.4 billion – up 28% on April but down 1.1% on May 2016. TSMC’s January to May revenues were $12 billion – up 5.7% on Jan-May 2016 UMC had May revenues of $413 million – down 1.5% on May 2016. UMC’s January to May revenues were $2 billion – up …
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Rohm aims artificial intelligence chip at factory automation
Rohm and Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*Star) are to develop an artificial intelligence (AI) chip for predictive maintenance in smart factories. The aim is to predict machine failures in by analysing information from sensors in real-time. “AI is becoming a key enabler for predictive maintenance and performance improvement, because of its cognitive …
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