The 14,000 feet of new pipe replaces water main that was installed as far back as the early 1900s.

The worldwide semiconductor market is forecasted to be $335 billion in 2016 – virtually unchanged from 2015 – and to grow 3% in 2017 and 2% in 2018 to reach $354 billion in 2018, reports WSTS. For 2016, growth in Discretes (4.2%), Sensors (22.6%), Analog (4.8%) and Microprocessors is expected to be offset by declines …

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EEV CLAIM ‘FIRST’ FOR HIGH-POWER KLYSTRON. This, 56 years ago, was the headline of a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of September 28th 1960. The story continues: A HIGH-POWER klystron claimed to be the first of its kind designed specifically for commercial radar is now being ordered for 50-cm radar equipments in Denmark , Great …

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At the CES 2017 exhibition in Las Vegas next month, German printed electronics firm Heliatek is presenting its HeliaFilm technology for building integrated organic photovoltaic cells for widespread urban installations. The significance of HeliaFilm is that it integrates the PV panels as part of the building. In this way the energy generation can be distributed around industrial and commercial buildings which will be smartly connected with …

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Nearly 3 million VR devices will be shipped this year and 5 million next year, says TrendForce. Biggest seller is Play Station VR followed by Facebook’s Oculus Rift and HTC’s Vie. All three devices have been hit by low production yields and component shortages, says TrendForce which estimates that 2.91 million units will ship this …

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Qualcomm has joined the Xen Project which promotes ARM-based server technologies. “Qualcomm Technologies is committed to supporting many open source communities that power the foundation of hyperscale cloud computing, including Xen Project,” says Qualcomm’s Elsie Wahlig, “as an advisory board member and through our code contributions, we are working to continue to make the Xen …

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Indigo Diabetes, a spin-off from Ghent University (UGent) and Imec, has raised a €7 million series-A financing round. The funding is provided by an international investment syndicate led by Thuja Capital Healthcare Fund II (The Netherlands) and PMV (Belgium), and includes Sensinnovat, Parana Management Corp, Qbic Arkiv Fund, Fidimec, SOFI, Manuardeo and Capricorn ICT Arkiv …

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With China supposed to be about to flood the world with NAND, this looks like an extraordnarily bad time to invest in a NAND fab. But this is what Seagate is said to be about to do. Apparently encouraged by the example of its storage rival Western Digital, which bought SanDisk to secure NAND supplies …

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From a roughly 6-mm light emitting surface, Cree’s newest LEDs deliver more than 2500 lm and come in 6V and 12V configurations.

Amazon WorkMail interoperability with Microsoft Exchange Server now allows you to use a unified global address book. A unified global address book allows all your users to access the same user information, groups, and resources, regardless of which email platform they are part of. With this capability, you can now seamlessly use both Amazon WorkMail and Microsoft Exchange Server in your organization, making it easy to start migrating your email to AWS.