Egypt is to build or upgrade 16 desalination plants across five governorates, reports Daily News Egypt.

Georgia Environmental Protection Division’s “Low-Cost Sensors for Real-Time Continuous Water Quality Monitoring” project funded.

Cape Town has outlined a “portfolio response” to its water crisis based on the work of its water resilience task team over the past 11 weeks.

Q2 shipments of mobile DRAM were up 14.8% on Q1, reports DRAMeXchange. Samsung and Micron had 10%+ growth. Samsung has over 60% of the market folloeed by Hynix with 21% and Micron with 15%. Micron’s outage at its Taiwan fab which lost 50K wafers, mainly for mobile DRAM, will affect its H2 numbers. Returning demand and higher …

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A shortage of components will hit premium smartphone sales in H2, says Gartner. “We expect a shortage of flash memory and OLED displays will affect premium smartphone supply in the second half of 2017,” says Gartner’s Anshul Gupta,  “we’ve already seen Huawei’s P10 suffer from a flash memory shortage, and smaller, traditional brands, such as …

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Three leaders have been identified for the next phase of the UK’s Supergen Programme – to design research ‘hubs’ that will investigate sustainable energy technology. They received six-month grants (see below) to build consortia, investigate research strategies, devise networking plans and device engagement plans for their fields, according to the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research …

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Rohm is claiming the smallest two-colour LED with the launch of the 1608 size (1.6 x 0.8mm) SML-D22MUW, intended for use behind seven-segment displays. “In recent years, chip LEDs are being increasingly used for numerical displays in industrial equipment and consumer devices,” said the firm. “Conventional numerical displays use a single colour to indicate numbers, …

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WR-BTB is a family of surface-mount board-to-board signal connectors from Würth Elektronik. The plugs with coded guide are available in versions with 40, 64, 80 or 100 pins. Models with 0.8 and 1mm pitch are also available in various heights. Various male and female plugs can be combined to achieve a defined spacing between two …

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BAE Systems has announced a radiation-hardened single-board space computer. Called RAD5545, it has a quad-core 32/64bit QorlQ Power Architecture processor running at 466MHz and offering 5.6 Drystone Gips of processing with 512kbyte/core L2 cache and 1Mbyte x2 L3 cache on a ANSI/VITA 78.00 SpaceVPX compliant 6U-220 board. Up to 16Gbyte of DDR3 ram can be …

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There was once a hotel credit controller in Canada who decided to go travelling in Asia. Six months later he was in Hong Kong needing to replenish his cash and took a job with a local paging company. After a year the company asked him to stay on for another year. One week before the …

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