Inalca SpA significantly reduced water and energy use at its plant in Rieti, Italy, by partnering with Nalco Water, an Ecolab company.

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Imec and Pisa University have performed the first material-device-circuit level co-optimization of FETs based on 2D materials for high-performance logic applications scaled beyond the 10nm technology node. Imec also presented novel designs that would allow using mono-layer 2D materials to enable Moore’s law even below 5nm gate length. 2D materials, a family of materials that …

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Q2 PC shipments were 4.3% down y-o-y at 61.1 million units, says Gartner. It is the 11th straight quarter of declining shipments and the lowest quarter since 2007.   “Higher PC prices due to the impact of component shortages for DRAM, solid state drives (SSDs) and LCD panels had a pronounced negative impact on PC …

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Cray is providing an Urika-GX system to the Alan Turing Institute through a collaboration between Cray, Intel, and the Institute. Based at the British Library in London, the Alan Turing Institute is the UK’s national institute for data science, and brings together researchers from a range of disciplines to tackle core challenges in data science …

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The deadline for submitting entries for the Elektra Awards has been extended until Friday 21 July.

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‘Smart’ light bulbs might end up hosting 2.4GHz mesh networking relay stations, wasting who-knows-how-much power  24/7. See this Engineer in Wonderland blog

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I just learned ceiling light bulbs are now a major target for household and commercial wireless mesh networks. From one point of view, it is a great idea as the mains-powered bulbs are likely to have line-of-sight to all the battery-powered or harvesting-powered IoT nodes around them, and be able to pass the data to …

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UK defence specialist Ultra Electronics has announced a planned acquisition of US-based Sparton Corp in a deal worth $235m (£180m).

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UK Power Networks has published a free guide on the basics of installing electric vehicle charging points at your house or company – from kW to MW installations. It is called ‘Getting electric vehicles moving, all you need to know about getting an electricity connection for your fleet‘. The guide is a top-level skim over …

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