Desalination and Water Purification Research and Title XVI Water Reclamation and Reuse Research applications are now being accepted.

DRAM contract prices rose 20% in October, reports DRAMeXchange, as the Big Three vendors opt for profitability over market share. Samsung, Hynix and Micron are “turning away from aggressively competing for market share through price reduction and capacity expansion,” says DRAMeChange’s Avril Wu as reported by Digitimes. The October price for 4GB DRAM modules was …

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I have a considerable power of patronage as someone who can commission reports, Ed confides to his diary. It seems HMG sends about a billion and a half a year on consultants, some of them getting £1000 a day. Now public service is a precarious trade and it won’t last forever and probably not for …

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Desalination and Water Purification Research and Title XVI Water Reclamation and Reuse Research applications are now being accepted.

The annoucement was made at WWEMA’s 108th Annual Meeting in Orlando Florida.

I remember watching remote control aircraft flying near where I grew up. People (men) had made them from scratch, parts or kits, and then learned to fly them – a highly skilled operation. Then self-flying electric copter-style drones appeared, with gyros and intelligence, which essentially fly themselves and only need to be shown where you …

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Pickering Electronics will demonstrate its two pole reed relays for high density designs at the Electronica exhibition in Munich next week (8 – 11 November). The series 115, 2 Form A relays can switch up to 15W, 1A and measuring 4mm x 10mm, the two-pole relay is only 50% larger than the single pole version. Two switch types …

Read full article: Electronica 2016: Pickering switches to 2-pole reed relays

Amiho Technology has introduced its first radio module for IoT networks using the LoRa wide-area network (WAN) protocol standard. Operating at 868MHz and with a range to up to 15km, it can be used in sensing and monitoring devices as part of a wide-area IoT wireless networks. An application is likely to be smart metering. Measuring 17.8 x 20.3mm, …

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ON Semiconductor has shrunk the size of its latest CMOS image sensor in the Python family. Python 480, which will be on view at Electronica in Munich next week, has the same pixel design and SVGA (800 x 600 pixel) resolution as the existing Python 500, but comes in a package which is 85% smaller …

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Powerbox added two intelligent dc-dc battery chargers to its automotive product line. Called ENA200, the chargers are small (116 x 88 x 18mm), efficienct (>95%) and include a microcontroller with switch-selectable charging algorithms for standard Pb-acid batteries as well as absorbed glass matte (AGM), gel cell and calcium types – plus application-defined profiles can be …

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