Contract will support Water and Wastewater Technical Center of Expertise in the U.S and additional areas.
Ambient Water partners with breweries to produce beer from condensation
Ballast Point Brewing Company, Stone Brewery, and Rock Bottom Brewery will employ technology for special craft brews.
Samsung to offer foundry customers 28nm FD-SOI embedded MRAM
In May Samsung is expected to announce that foundry customers can have embeded MRAM in their SoCs. Samsung’s MRAM is said to be 1000 times faster than NAND with unlimited endurace and will be offered with Samsung’s 28nm FD-SOI process. Samsung says that embedding MRAM only takes four mask-steps compared to 20 masks for embedded …
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3D NAND will become the dominant flash memory in Q3
Q3 will see 3D NAND take over 50% of the NAND market for the first time, says DRAMeXchange. In terms of bits shipped, 3D NAND already represents over half Samsung’s output and represented over half Micron’s shipments as early as February. Samsung is in volume production of 48-layer NAND and expects to start producing 64-layer …
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TSMC looks at e-beam as possible alternative to EUV
TSMC is looking at an e-beam lithography tool made by the Dutch firm Mapper as a possible alternative to EUV. The Mapper tool uses 110 e-beams and could, according to TSMC’s Burn Lin, process 150 wafers an hour which is the same rate as ASML’s latest EUV machine. According to Lin, who is vp for …
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Software algorithms secure embedded designs
Segger has introduced a library of cryptographic algorithms written entirely in C. Called emCrypt, it includes block ciphers, hashes, MACs, and digital signatures required to meet the demanding cryptographic needs of embedded devices. Having been designed from the ground up for use in memory-constrained embedded systems, emCrypt uses minimal resources in respect of memory footprint …
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5G is a car-crash in the making
The first operational 5G network could be working in time for the 2018 Winter Olympics, perhaps two years ahead of the anticipated launch date for the next generation mobile communications technology. The core technologies for 5G wireless networks – millimetre-wave transmission and massive MIMO radio transmission – are coming to fruition faster than was anticipated …
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Brexit will only make tech skills shortage worse
Recruiters in the electronics industry will need new talent management strategies to avoid a skills shortage, writes Ben Hall
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RISC-V Foundation replies on Princeton bugs
Princeton University found problems with the memory consistency model (MCM) in more complex implementations of the open source RISC-V. The University works with the RISC-V Foundation, so there was no conflict, and the Foundation is already on the case. However, the Foundation desires to set the record straight in detail, and its chairman Krste Asanović has written the following (reproduced in …
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Do We Want 5G?
Governments want 5G because they can have spectrum auctions for it raising huge amounts of cash. The EU has it high on their list of tech priorities. The UK is putting £200 million into 5G research this year, but many people think that a more pressing priority for government is to find a way to …
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