M&G Chemicals is to sell a desalination facility at its unfinished resins factory in Corpus Christi, Texas, as part of a wider divestiture, reports ICIS.

Muscat City Desalination Company (MCDC), the joint venture set up to run Al Ghubra desalination plant, Oman, is publicly offering its shares for sale.

The LT3964, a dual channel, 36V, high efficiency, synchronous, step-down LED driver with internal 40V, 1.6A power switches and an I2C interface that simplifies LED dimming control. The chip operates with a 4V to 36V input range, and features two independently controlled LED drivers that switch at up to 2MHz, resulting in a highly integrated, …

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China is five years away from overtaking the USA in AI says a report today from the US Center for New American Security (CNAS).   “China is no longer in a position of technological inferiority relative to the United States but rather has become a true peer that may have the capability to overtake the …

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New conductive polymer aluminium solid capacitors from Panasonic benefit from high ripple current and low ESR values Panasonic has introduced smoothing capacitors featuring a high ripple current of 5.8Amps and enabling miniaturization of switching power supplies. The SEPG series of radial lead type conductive polymer aluminium solid capacitors also benefits from very low ESR values …

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What’s with Japan Inc? It seems to be falling apart at the seams. We’ve seen Sharp fall to Foxconn, Toshiba fiddle its figures and make an almighty cock-up of its nuclear business and the sale of its memory business. Last week Mitsubishi Materials announced it had shipped sub-standard products; Kobe Steel, Nissan and Subaru have …

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Toshiba is sampling 3.5inch HDDs with up to 10TB capacity which support up to 64 camera streams. The MD06ACA-V Series is designed for 24/7 streaming operation scenarios and is typically used for surveillance digital video recorders (SDVR), surveillance network video recorders (SNVR) and Hybrid SDVR. The HDDs have 7,200 rpm access performance. The 10TB model delivers …

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TI has added Ethernet connectivity to its SimpleLink microcontroller (MCU). The SimpleLink MSP43 Ethernet MCUs are based on a 120-MHz Arm Cortex-M4F core with an integrated MAC and PHY, helping accelerate time to market for grid infrastructure and industrial automation gateway applications. They offer: · MCUs which integrate an Ethernet MAC and PHY, USB, Controller …

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Do you want $20 million? If so, waltz into those plushy, deep-carpeted VC habitats and say: “We enable: AI-infused blockchain IoT blockchains AI-driven IoT Edge computing AI Blockchain in Edge computing Edge computing using AI-infused blockchain AI-infused big data analytics Neural computing on the IoT Quantum computing for blockchain Neural acceleration for AI-infused quantum computing …

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ARM is under notice that RISC-V is coming for it in high-end products as Esperanto Technologies announces that its developing high-end products with a 64-bit RISC-V family including: An AI “supercomputer-on-a-chip” made on TSMC’s 7-nm process. A 16-core “ET-Maxion” targeting highest single-thread performance A 4,096-core “ET-Minion” targeting performance-per-watt with a vector floating-point unit in each …

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