White Marsh Environmental Systems, a Middlesex Water affiliate, awarded 5-year contract to operate the Lewes, DE Water Reclamation Facility. 

 

TE Connectivity has added to its portfolio of Kilovac current-sensing high-voltage contactors. KCS01 has an integrated current sensor and current trip, and is intended harsh military and commercial electric vehicles, as well as power distribution, energy storage and battery storage. “At 145g, KCS01 contactors are among the smallest 100A contactors in the industry,” said TE …

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Xiaomi has entered the exclusive club of smartphone vendors who make their own chipsets. The seven year-old Xiaomi is member No.4 after Apple, Samsung and Huawei. LG is expected to be entering the club this year with its own chipset made on Intel’s 10nm process, and Sony may be on the verge of joining the …

Read full article: Xiaomi Joins The AP Owners Club

There was once a CEO of a top ten semiconductor company who blamed the closure of a nearly-new fab on Korea, the EU and IMF prompting an official complaint from Korea’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. ‘I’m very disappointed by the actions of the EU,” he said after closing the plant, “I blame the Koreans, and …

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Solid glass electrolytes could be the key to improving battery performance, according to a team at the University of Texas at Austin

Read full article: Glass electrolyte opens door to alkali metal batteries for electrc vehicles

Imec has a patterning  solution for a 42nm-pitch M1 layer and a 32nm-pitch M2 layer in logic design compatible with the foundry N5 requirements. The approach includes two scenarios for EUVL insertion that, when combined with an array of scaling boosters, serve as a basis of the industry requirements for power, performance, area and cost. …

Read full article: Imec solution for EUV patterning

Foxconn is, apparently, quite serious about buying Toshiba Semiconductor. Having taken over Sharp, and currently in the process of building display factories in China, Foxconn boss Terry Gou sees the chance of doing the same thing with memory. In fact Foxconn sees Toshiba’s memory business as an opportunity to bring together display and memory fabrication …

Read full article: Gou serious about Tosh

  Mobile network operators may not be investing in 5G anytime soon, it was revealed in Barcelona yesterday. “I don’t see 5G becoming reality very soon because 4G hasn’t yet to be penetrated at a meaningful level, it hasn’t been scaled,” said Mike Fries CEO of Liberty Global owner of Virgin Media speaking at MWC, …

Read full article: Operators may say No to 5G

Adding a small amount of lithium hexafluorophosphate to a iTFSI–LiBOB dual-salt carbonate solvent-based electrolyte can make rechargeable lithium-metal batteries more stable, charge quickly and have a high voltage, cliams the US government’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). “A good lithium-metal battery will have the same lifespan as the lithium-ion batteries that power today’s electric cars …

Read full article: Improved electrolyte blocks lithium-metal cell dendrites

Intel’s EUV manager told this week’s SPIE Advanced Lithography Conference that EUV may not be ready for 7nm. Dr. Britt Turkoff pointed to a number of potential show-stoppers. The old bug-bear of light-source power is still with us with 250W needed and not much more than 150W attainable. Photoresist and pellicles are also in need …

Read full article: EUV may not be ready for 7nm