SoftBank, which paid $32 billion for ARM last year, has paid $3.3 billion for a US private equity company called Fortress Investment Group.

Read full article: SoftBank diversifies into private equity

The DRAM market grew 18.2% Q4 on Q3 with contract prices for supply-squeezed PC DRAM growing 30% in Q4 and expected to grow another 40% in Q1

Read full article: DRAM price going through the roof

The Indigo methodology for determining the future potential of countries has come up with its annual ranking. The methodology looks at five indices: . Stability & Legal Framework . Creativity & Innovation . Economic Diversity . Digital Economy . Freedom The top 25 countries with the most positive future potential are:

Read full article: Top Ten (+15) Countries With Good Future Potential

Singapore engineering firm Hyflux will design and build three small scale desalination plants along the Red Sea coast in the western region of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia…

 

A transcript of the WaterWorld  Weekly Newscast for the week of February 13, 2017.

 

Beaufort-Jasper Water & Sewer Authority receives top honor.

Canonical, openHAB Foundation and Azul Systems have launched the snap packaging of openHAB 2.0, a free open smart home platform that acts as a control hub for home IoT setups. The smart home software can be used with different hardware ranging from a PC to Raspberry Pi. It can be used to control, automate and …

Read full article: Ubuntu smart home platform for Raspberry Pi

Imagination Technologies is back on track, and focusing on intellectual property licencing, according to CEO Andrew Heath.

Read full article: Profile: Restructured Imagination focuses on PowerVR, MIPS and wireless IP

Coventor, the supplier of virtual fabrication technology for ICs and MEMS, works with a team from Imec to compare the effects of variability on different semiconductor fab processes.

Read full article: Coventor and Imec link on virtual fabrication

Gaggione has created a range of colour-mixing 45mm collimators. Using a patented technology, according to the firm, it is achieves the narrowest available beams combined with state of the art colour mixing capabilities. “Designed to match most demanding RGBW or human-centric light applications, it also provides a significant breakthrough with single or multi-chip white LEDS,” …

Read full article: Colour-mixing collimators with narrow beams