Mascara has reported positive results from its solar desalination trial in Abu Dhabi and has since signed multiple international projects…

Tsinghua has had another rebuff to its attempts to put together a Chinese semiconductor industry – its proposed investment in Taiwanese test and assembly house, Powertech, has been blocked. Last year Tsinghua proposed buying 25% stakes in three of Taiwan’s assembly companies – ChipMOS, SPIL and Powertech. Though the execs of the companies were favourably …

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The Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3 has a quad core 64bit ARM Cortex-A53 processor running at up to 1.2GHz, within the original Compute Module form-factor.

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IoT security challenges – save this date in your diary: Tuesday 25 April, central London

Read full article: IoT Secure Systems Summit 2017

IQD’s rubidium oscillator, the IQRB-2, delivers low phase noise of -112dBc/Hz at 1Hz and -158dBc/Hz at 10kHz. It is housed in a 95.5 x 62.5 x 44.3mm module so can be used in a 1U rack. The electrical connections include an SMA connector for RF output, RS232 connectors RX & TX, a voltage control input …

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Here is a product that has the potential to be an industry disrupter: the ix Industrial from Hirose & Harting.

Read full article: Only Connect: The ix Industrial Ethernet connector

Crossbar is sampling embedded 40nm ReRAM from SMIC and expects to have 28nm technology available in H1.

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GSPK Design secures quality accreditation in support of its business designing and manufacturing electronic devices for the medical device market.

Read full article: Yorkshire design firm targets medical device market

UK-based internet hosting firm UKFast has made a £2.3m upgrade at its data centre in Manchester. November’s Autumn Statement saw the government pledge up to £1bn in digital infrastructure investment, with a call to private companies to match that figure with investment in their own projects. UKFast CEO Lawrence Jones, writes: “The commitment from the government is a …

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Littelfuse, the manufacturer of circuit protection devices. has appointed Anglia as UK and Ireland distributor. The distributor will stock Littelfuse cartridge and surface-mount fuses, resettable fuses and fuse holders. It will also carry suppression products such as metal oxide varistors, gas discharge tubes, TVS diodes and SIDACtors. Paul Turner, EMEA sales director at Littelfuse, writes: “We realised there …

Read full article: Littelfuse looks for growth in UK with Anglia