Evoqua was selected to support this project with a boiler feedwater make-up system. 

After raising 3.25x its crowdfunding target, FTDI Chip has now announced the full availability of the CleO product (and accompanying accessories) through its distribution partners, as well as directly via the company’s website. FTDI Chip will also give engineers complete access to a comprehensive development resource, which has step-by-step tutorials and projects, plus a series …

FTDI Chip launches Cle0

5G is hovering on the doorstep. There will be one 5G capable city in every EU country by 2020, say the operators. But what will EU 5G be like? 16 years after the 3G auction most people are relieved to get a 3G signal. As for 4G, to call it elusive would be flattering it. …

Blackmail

There was once a company founder who was most embarrassed when the US House Ways and Means Committee reported that he was the best paid man in the USA. The Committee quoted other notable earners like Walter Chrysler founder of Chrysler, Sam Goldwyn, the cowboy comedian Will Rogers and Alfred Sloan. But the company founder …

Fable: The Man Who Was Embarrassed By The Size Of His Pay Packet

Infineon has bought the Wolfspeed Power and RF division of Cree for $850 million. The deal also includes the related SiC wafer substrate business for power and RF power. “Joining forces with Wolfspeed represents a unique growth opportunity, says Infineon CEO Reinhard Ploss, “Wolfspeed’s and Infineon’s businesses and expertise are highly complementary, bringing together industry …

Infineon buys Wolfspeed

There is plenty of talk about IoT in general, but case studies of real-world implementations are less common. You may want to check out this free Intel whitepaper about using a single board computer to speed up DNA Sequencing.

Real world IoT implementations – Single Board Computer speeding up DNA Sequencing

An encrypted key technology used to make hardware like mobile phones secure may not be as hackable as first thought. A team of researchers from semiconductor developer NXP have shown that in fact it can be much easier than thought to extract the keys from a white-box environment. Cryptographic keys protected by white-box software implementations are …

NXP warns cryptographic keys can be hacked

Today, Leti and the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) announced an agreement to jointly explore a variety of technologies, including monolithic 3D, neuromorphic architectures, non-volatile 3D memory, spintronics and ultra-low power semiconductors. The five-year joint project also will focus on creating a broad network to foster international collaboration on ultra-low power semiconductors, which …

LETI and KIST link for advanced projects

Researchers in the US have shown that 3D printed heatsinks could be lighter, smaller or better than conventional heatsinks. False-colour image of a heatsink genetically designed to cool a module dissipating 2kW The conclusion comes from two linked projects at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee Knoxville: One proves printed aluminium can …

More on: 3D printing could make better heatsinks

Hamma Water Desalination facility in Algeria, the first reverse osmosis seawater plant in Africa to be funded by public-private investment, has scooped OPIC’s Impact Award for Critical Infrastructure, for effectiveness in public-private partnerships in major infrastructure projects.