The U.S. Steel facility in Portage reported a wastewater discharge Tuesday morning to the Burns Waterway, and EPA determined the wastewater contained hexavalent chromium.

 

Qualcomm has accused Apple of deliberately failing to use the full power of its chips in iPhones and encouraging regulatory attacks on Qualcomm as part of a wide-ranging series of counterclaims to Apple’s lawsuit against the chipmaker.

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Western Digital (WD) has thrown a spanner in the works of Toshiba’s sale of its chip business. It has told Toshiba it has breached its jv obligations with WD to put the business up for sale. WD bought out SanDisk’s share in the FlashAlliance last year. The FlashAlliance is a jv to build and equip …

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Dialog Semiconductor has announced a 10A switched-capacitor voltage divide-by-two, that operates at up to 98% efficiency, hitting or exceeding 95% at 10A. Called DA9313, it can deliver over 50W from less than in less than 10mm2 of board area. Applications are expected when systems are powered from two Li-ion cells connected in series, such as notebook PCs, …

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Cadence Design Systems is offering semiconductor IC design verification which makes use of parallel computing resources in the cloud. Called  Pegasus, the verification tool has the capability to offer fast design rule check (DRC) performance on hundreds of CPUs while also reducing turnaround time from days to hours versus the previous-generation Cadence verification tool. “Engineers have experienced increasing …

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Ultrahaptics has signed a distributor deal with Cornes Technologies. Ultrahaptics’ technology uses ultrasound to project sensations through the air, directly onto a user’s hand. This enables users to receive tactile feedback without coming into contact with a solid surface of any kind. Users are able to ‘feel’ buttons and interact with virtual objects in mid-air, …

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RS Components is now selling the FPGA and microcontroller development boards of Digilent, a National Instruments company specialising in development tools and test and measurement devices for prototyping and engineering education. Digilent supplies a range of FPGA and microcontroller development boards, JTAG programmers and a range of microcontroller peripheral application boards and portable instruments. Jon Boxall, head of semiconductors at …

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Infineon has added to its StrongIRFET family with a 40 V MOSFET packaged in D²PAK 7pin+.

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Osram is the official lighting partner for this year’s Eurovision Song Contest in Kiev – as it was in Vienna (2015) and Stockholm (2016). With more than 200 million viewers, the Eurovision Song Contest is the world’s largest TV entertainment event. Spoiler alert – there follows no led talk The highlight, says Osram, will be …

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The green light for a national strategy to develop cyber security techniques for the testing and commercialisation of connected autonomous vehicles.

Read full article: UK government sets connected vehicle security plan in motion