DC Water’s capital improvement program is a $1.3 billion water and wastewater infrastructure program focused on repair and replacement.

UK leading luxury Scottish country clothing specialist – The House of Bruar – has upgraded its wastewater treatment capacity to cope with increasing numbers of visitors…

Thanks to Gartner for this one – the top seven shippers of PCs in Q2 Millions of units Lenovo 13.2 HP 12.3 Dell 9.8 Asustek 4.7 Apple 4.6 Aver 4.4 Others 15.4 Total 64.3

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For automotive leds arrays, Allegro MicroSystems Europe has announced two adjustable linear current regulators.

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When is a driverless taxi not a driverless taxi? When it’s got a driver. This simple logic escaped the world’s media when reporting the Silly Season story that Uber will put 100 driverless (but with drivers) Volvo-made taxis on the streets of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania later this year. It’s a good story for Uber’s PR team …

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IQD has launched a range of AEC-Q200 qualified clock oscillators released to TS16949 for industrial and automotive applications.

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Goggle is beginning to roll out Android 7.0, recently named as Nougat, to Nexus devices.

Read full article: Google starts roll out of Android 7.0 Nougat

The pure-play foundry market is expected to jump 9% this year, up from 6% growth in 2015, says IC Insights.

Read full article: Foundry to grow 9%, says IC Insights

Movidius will incorporate UltraSoC’s semiconductor IP into its next-generation low-power machine vision systems-on-chip (SoCs).

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SEMI’s July book-to-bill was 1.05. July bookings were $1.79 billion – 4.7% higher than June’s $1.71 billion, and 13.1% higher than the July 2015 order level of $1.59 billion. July billings were $1.71 billion – 0.6% lower than June’s $1.72 billion, and is 9.6% higher than the July 2015 billings level of $1.56 billion. “Monthly …

Read full article: SEMI’s July book-to-bill was 1.05