A transcript of the WaterWorld Weekly Newscast for August 22, 2016. 

LG Water Solutions, part of LG Chem has introduced an anti-fouling brackish water reverse osmosis membrane…

Semiconductor companies are expecting an average 6% growth for Q3, reports Bill Jewell’s Semiconductor Intelligence. IC Insights reported that Q2 y-o-y growth was 7% with seven top 20 companies – MediaTek, Samsung, Qualcomm, TSMC, Hynix, UMC and AMD – achieving double digit growth. For sequential growth in Q3, Intel is looking at 10%, TI, Micron …

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Tsinghua is reported to be be talking to Korean semiconductor SMEs with a view to acquisition, according to the Korean media site Biz Chosun, Tsinghua, which bid for Micron and a number of US and Taiwan companies, is looking at small and mid-sized South Korean chip firms with specialty technologies. Companies named as having been …

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A new automatic translation machine, designed to translate German and English into Japanese, has been demonstrated by its inventor Prof Katsuo Ohno of Kyushu University at the radio equipment manufacturing plant of Mitsubishi Electric Co. So, 56 years ago, started a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of September 28th 1960. The story continues: This machine, …

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A Canadian company, Allo, has created a HAT-compliant Hi-Fi audio stack for Raspberry Pi, which includes jitter re-timing, something normally found at the high-end of audio equipment.

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“Proximity payments based on NFC technology are clearly on the rise – and payment solutions with smart wearables will accelerate this trend,” says Infineon’s Thomas Rostek.

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My vision for post-Brexit UK – as an off-shore sweat-shop for non-European companies to access the Continental market without troublesome regulation, high taxes or employee protection – is coming on apace, Ed confides to his diary. Initial talks with the big US tech companies make it clear what they need from us. Amazon wants a …

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Renesas is reported by the Nikkei to be buying Intersil for $3 billion, about $1 billion more than its current market cap. The deal could be finalised in a couple of weeks. This weekend Renesas said that foreign acquisitions are one of the options it is considering. Intersil is not denying the reports, but not …

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Cambridge Innovation Capital plc (CIC), the 13 year-old Cambridge University investment initiative, has raised £75 million of new capital giving it a total fund of £95 million to invest. CIC was founded by ARM and Lansdown Partners in 2003 with an initial capital of £50 million. With Cambridge Enterprise, the commercialisation arm of the University, …

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