There is a big shift going on in the water sector, and it’s exemplified by the Suez-GE deal. While the focus of services offered by engineers has always ebbed and flowed along a spectrum of consultancy, design work, systems integration, and delivery, nowadays customers’ decision-making processes are pushing at the boundaries of these traditional project service offerings.
CH2M hosts water sector leaders to showcase a new vision for water infrastructure investment
How water utilities can meet aging water infrastructure challenges by adopting new investment practices.
Canada, Prince Edward Island fund 26 projects to improve water and wastewater infrastructure
More than $29.8 million has been designated for 26 water infrastructure projects across the Island.
Test and Treat campaign provides solution to lead in drinking water at Minnesota schools
Great Water Tech announces program featuring Folmar Pipe Protection.
U.S. organizations seek to improve water infrastructure, grow local economies
EPA received over 40 letters of interest from prospective WIFIA borrowers.
Keysight has a PXIe signal generator to cover 5G
Keysight Technologies has introduced a PXIe microwave signal generator with frequency coverage up to 44GHz and modulation bandwidth up to 1GHz. This means the generator is suitbale for creating waveforms used in emerging 5G and aerospace and defense DVT applications. Its phase noise spec means that the M9383A PXIe signal generator delivers 1% EVM, an …
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55Tbit/s transmitted using optical solitons
European researchers have used silicon nitride optical resonators on a chip to transmit data on 179 individual optical carriers, completely covering the optical telecoms C and L bands (centred near 1.55μm), and offering a transmission rate of 55Tbit/s over 75km. “This is equivalent to more than five billion phone calls or more than two million …
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Bitcoin Miners Herald New Foundry Business Model
Bitcoin may have created a precedent for non-traditional customers to go to silicon foundries. Digitimes reports that people wanting ICs to perform Bitcoin mining functions have been the among the first customers for new TSMC process nodes for the last three nodes 28nm – 16nm. The Bitcoin miners are a new breed of client for …
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Last men standing in Tosh bid
Last men standing in the marathon Toshiba auction are Western Digital and Broadcom, reports Reuters. This means Hon Hai and Hynix are out of the running. It may also mean that Broadcom has raised its $18 billion bid to match Hon Hai’s $20 billion. Though Western Digital’s bid is lower, it owns jv assets with Toshiba. All will …
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Arrow backs student Formula-E teams
Arrow is sponsoring Formula-E racing car projects in Norway and Germany, working with universities that are participating in Formula Student, a global automotive engineering competition. Some 3,500 students across Europe participate in the programme each year, producing more than 100 custom vehicles. In Norway, Arrow is partnering with Revolve NTNU, which is representing the Norwegian University …
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