Poseidon Water’s proposed mega desalination plant at Huntington Beach, California, has been named as one of US President Trump’s top 50 priority infrastructure projects in a document purportedly leaked by Trump’s transition team.
Escondida mega plant poised to produce water in March
Mining giant BHP Billiton has reported the “mechanical completion” of Escondida Water Supply project, Chile, with the first water expected in March 2017.
MWRD of Chicago, citizens orgs announce collaborative resolution to lawsuits concerning the total phosphorus discharge
The parties’ settlement agreement maps out a long-term plan to gather essential data and, in cooperation with the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (IEPA), address any phosphorus related adverse conditions in the region’s waterways.
Gradiant Energy Services appoints Jimenez as CEO
Gradiant Energy Services (GES) has appointed Danny Jimenez as chief executive with a brief to oversee strategic direction and growth, including expanding its offer to oil and gas operators.
Gartner forecasts 7.2% semi growth
Gartner forecasts 7.2 % semi growth this year taking the industry to $364.1 billion. “The worst is now over with a positive outlook emerging for 2017 driven by inventory replenishment and increasing ASPs)p in select markets, particularly commodity memory and application-specific standard products,” says Gartner vo,Ganesh Ramamoorthy, “the turnaround that started at the end of …
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Designing smart tech lowers mental anxiety
An imaginative smart textiles design workshop has shown that involvement in new technologies can benefit people with mental health issues, writes Richard Wilson A research project involving technology product design using smart textiles has been used to help people with mental health conditions by lowering levels of anxiety. Dr Sarah Kettley, a reader in product …
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Imec, EVG demo superior overlay accuracy for wafer-to-wafer bonding
Imec and EVG have demonstrated 1.8µm pitch overlay accuracy for wafer-to-wafer bonding. Wafer-to-wafer bonding is a promising technique for enabling high-density integration of future ICs through 3D integration. This is achieved by aligning top and bottom wafers that are then bonded, thus creating a stacked IC. An important advantage is that wafers/ICs with different technologies …
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Silicon Labs buys Zentri
Silicon Labs of Austin Texas has bought three year-old Los Gatos IoT specialist Zentri which helps people connect things to each other and to the internet. Zentri’ combination of modules, embedded and cloud software, APIs and tools enables rapid development of secure IoT end node products. Zentri has raised $3.4 million in venture capital since …
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Distributor rates suppliers and delivery performance
Anglia provides analysis of forward, current and historical orders and enquiries. It’s also giving a vendor rating based on delivery performance.
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Asus’s 1.8GHz 32bit quad core Raspberry Pi clone
PC giant Asus has jumped on the Raspberry Pi bandwagon with Tinker Board. According to Farnell, which is stocking it, it has a Quad core 1.8GHz ARM Cortex-A17 CPU from Rockchip – faster than Raspberry Pi 3, but 32bit compared to Raspberry Pi’s 64bit. Tinker Board also has more memory – 2GB dual channel LPDDR3. Tinker Board is …
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