South Africa’s electricity utility Eskom is to install a desalination unit at Koeberg Nuclear Power Station, as water shortages in Cape Town hit crisis levels, reports South Africa’s News24.com.
Dais enters desalination market
Aquabaero Environment Protection LTD to use company’s patented NanoClear™ water purification system in desal projects.
Qatar and Sweden plot renewables-fuelled desalination project
A renewables-fuelled desalination project aiming to produce water for $1/m3 is to be jointly developed by Qatar and Sweden, reports The Peninsular.
Imagination sells chip design business
Imagination Technologies has agreed a deal to sell its SoC and software design business to UK-based design firm Sondrel. Design engineers employed in the IMGworks division will join with Sondrel’s existing engineering consultancy to create a combined IC design capability comprising more than 250 highly skilled employees. Imagination is in the middle of a major …
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Imec makes haptics chip for prosthetic arms
Imec has made a prototype implantable chip that gives patients more intuitive control over their arm prosthetics. The thin-silicon chip is a world’s first for electrode density and was developed in collaboration with researchers at the University of Florida, as part of the IMPRESS project funded by the DARPA’s HAPTIX program to create a closed-loop system …
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Samsung Pay mobile payments roll out in UK
Samsung is rolling out its Samsung Pay mobile payments system in the UK, following the launch of the Galaxy S8 and S8+.
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PCIM: Fast charger tech for electric vehicles
Microsemi has announced at PCIM exhibition in Nuremberg that its fast recovery DQ diode product family is now AEC-Q101 qualified for use in the automotive market. They are designed to offer higher switching speeds and lower switching loss compared to traditional diodes used as rectifiers in AC-DC/DC-DC converters. Likely automotive applications may include high frequency …
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PCIM: LEM current transducer steps up in accuracy
LEM has unveiled at PCIM in Nuremberg a new design of current transducer which is notable for its high accuracy and low noise for non-intrusive and isolated measurement of DC, AC and pulsed nominal current of 2000A. The 2000-S model transducer also has an extended operating temperature range of -40 to +85°C. Specified accuracy with …
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PCIM: half-bridge device has high and low side mosfet drivers
At the PCIM exhibition taking place in Nuremberg this week, Diodes has introduced a range of gate drivers that feature a floating high-side driver to simplify the switching of two N-channel mosfets or two IGBTs in a half-bridge configuration. Designed for motor control and power supply applications that require AC and DC motor control boards …
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Top Ten Semiconductor Manufacturing Equipment Companies
Thanks to the Information Network for this one – the ten biggest semiconductor manufacturing equipment suppliers in 2016: $bn Applied 8.1 Lam Research 5.2 ASML 5.1 Tokyo Electron 5.0 KLA-Tencor 2.2 Screen SS 1.3 Hitachi Hi-Tec 0.97 Nikon 0.82 ASM 0.54 Hitachi Kokusai 0.53
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