Rebate program garners district honors from SustainOC for efforts to mitigate urban runoff.

Funding awarded to Vermont, New York, and New England Interstate Water Pollution Control Commission on behalf of the Lake Champlain Basin Program.

Mid Basin Centennial Park Injection Project will inject purified water into the principal aquifer of the Orange County Groundwater Basin.

Mediatek is to hand out $5.3 million in bonuses to its 16,000 employees at its 20th anniversary company sports day, Those hired before May last year get $400. Those hired before September get $330. Mediatek’s Q3 profit was $168 million, up 129% on Q2 but 35% down on Q3 2016.

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The Chancellor of the Exchequer is set to announce financial support for a raft of technology projects in the Autumn Budget on Wednesday: £75m for artificial intelligence £400m for electric car charge points £100m to boost clean car purchases £160m for next-generation 5G mobile networks across the UK £100m for an additional 8,000 fully-qualified computer science …

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Synapse Design has bought IC design house Tech Vulcan of San Diego which gives Syynapse 45 engineers and a second design center in California. Tech Vulcan provides SOC VLSI design services ranging from RTL design, functional verification, physical design, test vector development to ATE testing and product commercialization. Pradeep Mishra, Tech Vulcan, CEO, says Synapse …

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It was common to refer to conspiracy theorists who were paranoid about interference in their private lives as “the tin foil hat brigade”…

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ARM had a Q3 EBITDA profit of £73 million down from the £82 million of Q2, the £216 million of Q1 and the £133 million of Q4 2016. 26 licences were signed in Q3, down from 41 in Q2 Licensing revenues slipped from £112 million in Q2 to £91.2 million in Q3. Royalty income rose …

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Is an IDM Commune an idea whose time has come? Richard Chang thinks it is.   20 years as a TI-er, the experience of founding WSMC which was sold to TSMC for half a billion dollars and his credentials as the founding CEO of SMIC give Chang’s judgment authority. Chang’s vision is a variation on …

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China’s production of electronics equipment has grown 13.8% so far this year, says Bill Jewell’s Semiconductor Intelligence, which is heading to be the largest annual growth for six years. Last year China’s electronics production increased by 10%. In the USA, year-to-date electronics production is up 5% – the strongest growth in 11 years. China’s electronic …

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