Evoqua Water Technologies is upgrading its UK production facility for SeaCURE ballast water treatment systems ahead of new regulations for shipowners coming in September 2017.

Linear Technology, now part of Analog Devices, has launched the LTC2358-18, an 18-bit, 8-channel simultaneous sampling SAR ADC featuring integrated picoamp input buffers. The LTC2358-18 from Linear Technology, now part of Analog Devices, saves board space  by eliminating front end signal conditioning circuitry normally required to drive unbuffered switched-capacitor ADC inputs. The combined component savings of three amplifiers, …

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Earlier today, the chairman of the Japanese government-owned Innovation Network Corp of Japan (INCJ) Toshiyuki Shiga, said that the INCJ is looking at participating in the second round of bidding for Toshiba’s chip unit. The Japanese government is concerned about Toshiba’s technology leaking to China and the biggest bid in round one is reported to …

Read full article: INCJ may join Toshiba bidding as Apple mooted to back Hon Hai bid

The chip market will grow 12.3% this year, says Gartner, reaching $386 billion. PC DRAM pricing has doubled since the middle of 2016, said Gartner. A 4GB module that cost $12.50 has jumped to just under $25. NAND flash ASPs increased sequentially in the second half of 2016 and the first quarter of 2017. Pricing …

Read full article: 12.3% semi growth, forecasts Gartner

Apple has received an official permit to test autonomous cars on Californian roads in the first official confirmation that it is planning to enter the self-driving car market.

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Rambus and Microsoft are to extend their collaboration on new memory technologies to cryogenic memory. “With the increasing challenges in conventional approaches to improving memory capacity and power efficiency, our early research indicates that a significant change in the operating temperature of DRAM using cryogenic techniques may become essential in future memory systems,” says Rambus’ …

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Listening to the radio this morning, I heard about a bacteria called Bdellovibrio (silent ‘B’) that kills other bacteria – the programme was talking about its use as an antibiotic. It is a fast-swimming bacteria, and this reminded me reminded me that some bacteria, including this one, swim using a real rotary motor attached to a …

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Compound Semiconductor Technologies (CST) Global, the Scotland-based volume-producer of III-V compound semiconductor lasers, has been acquired by Swedish firm Sivers IMA Holdings. Targeting the high growth networking markets, Sivers IMA already supplies wireless products for WiGig and 5G wireless network applications. Its merge with CST Global will add fibre optic network products such as edge optical lasers used in data …

Read full article: Scottish III-V laser supplier bought by Swedish firm

The latest member of the Arduino MKR family is the MKRFOX1200 IoT development board with Sigfox wireless connectivity. It has a similar form factor (67 x 25mm) and a Microchip SAM D21 32-bit Cortex-M0+ microcontroller as the previous  MKR1000 and MKRZero boards. But this board has been designed for low power IoT wireless nodes and so an ATA8520 module provides long-range …

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Tektronix has introduced a 10Gsample/s 16bit eight channel arbitrary waveform generator. Called AWG 5208, it can be paralleled with an identical unit to provide 16 synchronised channels (see photo). Applications are foreseen designing and testing radar and electronic warfare equipment, as well as in research. “Engineers developing radar/EW systems and components require high-fidelity, tightly synchronised …

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