America’s WateReuse Association has unveiled the winners of this year’s awards for leadership in water reuse.

OPWP has announced a tender to provide “Technical Advisory Services” for its plans to increase water and power supply…

Emergency repairs are underway at Pt Lisas Desalination Plant in Trinidad and Tobago, after part of a pipeline collapsed leaving residents without water, reports the Trinidad Express.

Microchip has announced Explorer 16/32, a development board for 16 and 32bit PIC microcontrollers that is backwards compatible with the Explorer 16 Board

Read full article: Microchip dev board covers 16 and 32bit PICs

Can Apple justify dropping the headphone jack from its latest, iPhone 7, smartphones? Let us know what you think.

Read full article: Poll: Apple drops the headphone jack

In H1 IQE, the Cardiff compound semiconductor wafer specialist, saw double digit growth in revenues, profits and cash generation. Revenues were up 18% reflecting increasing revenues in all markets; cash generated from operations increased 176%; debt was reduced by 28% to £35.4 million and photonics sales grew 45% y-o-y; The company earned licensing income of …

Read full article: IQE sparkles

Q2 worldwide semiconductor billings were $10.5 billion – 26% up on Q1 and 11% up on Q2 2015, says SEMI. Q2 worldwide semiconductor equipment bookings were $11.9 billion up 27% on Q1 and up 17% on Q2 2015. The quarterly billings data by region in billions of U.S. dollars, quarter-over-quarter growth and year-over-year rates by …

Read full article: Q2 bookings up 26%, says SEMI

This was the headline, 55 years ago, on a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of February 1st 1961. The story opens: An off-the-shelf delivery service is now available for STC tunnel diodes. They were introduced early last yea r in development form to enable engineers to gain experience in the use of them Since then …

Read full article: Tunnel Diodes ‘Off the Shelf’.

Renesas Electronics has agreed a deal to acquire Intersil for around $3.2bn.

Read full article: Renesas agrees $3.2bn buyout of Intersil

Just a quick post to flag an interesting article about Project Fi – Goggle’s experimental wireless service (in the US).

Read full article: Project Fi, data-only SIMs, and second phones…