Twenty drinking water,wastewater and non-point source projects across 14 counties will receive funding through the Pennsylvania Infrastructure Investment Authority.
Partnership between Chicago’s MWRD and Cook County Sheriff leads to safer streets, cleaner waters
Expansion of the drug take back program will encourage proper disposal of unused and expired medicines, keeping them out of the local water supply.
Discovery means robot centipedes go fast and turn quickly
Deepening understanding of centipede walking could improve robot locomotion, according to the University of Kyoto, which has been studying centipede movement for years. Its latest finding is that being on the point of instability balances straight-line and turning performance in multi-legged robots. The questions the researchers set themselves was: with all the friction created by …
I have no idea how this TV works
Sometime (most of the time?) marketing gets so overbearing that I can’t tell what something is. Take Sony’s ZD9 televisions. They have “Direct LED (Backlight Master Drive)” screens, according to the firm. Does that mean they are LCD with lots of little backlights, are they a huge RGB array of conventional leds, oleds, or what? …
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UV led replaces mercury lamps for medical and more
Vishay has introduced a 365nm wavelength leds in a 1.6 x 1.6 mm x 1.4mm surface-mount package, intending it to compete with mercury lamps in medical, industrial, and printing applications. Output of the InGaN VLMU1610-365-135 is typically 18mW at 20mA and 50mW at 60mA within 362.5 to 370nm. Life time is “up to 25,000h”, said the firm, which …
Sensor sales soar but ASPs sink
Sensor unit sales keep hitting new records but price erosion is curbing dollar growth, says IC Insights. Despite double-digit percentage increases in annual unit shipments, semiconductor sensor sales growth has become uncharacteristically lethargic because of steep price erosion in several major product categories. Strong unit demand is being fueled by new wearable systems, greater automation …
SEMI book-to-bill at parity
The SEMI book-to-bill for June was at parity – the lowest b-to-b ratio of the year. June bookings were $1.71 billion – down 2.1% on May’s 2016 $1.75 billion, but up12.9% on the June 2015 order level of $1.52 billion. June billings were $1.71 billion – up 7% on May’s $1.6 billion, and 10.2% higher …
VC funding up but deals down
Q2 VC funding moved higher but the number of deals dropped, says a report from KPMG and CB Insights, at the current rate, 2016 deal activity will barely top 2013’s numbers. The reason funding moved higher while deal activity dropped is that some larger startups such as those of Snapchat, Didi Chuxing, and Uber all …
Memories Are Made Of What?
3D X-Point is being sampled, according to Intel CEO Brian Krzanich, who says that SSD modules using the chips will be shipped this year. Called Optane, the SSDs appear to be aimed at a wide field of applications from servers to games machines. 3D X-Point was announced this time last year and declared to be …
MLCC sits between NP0/C0G and X7R in size and stability
Kemet is aiming at timing, filtering and phase-locked loops (PLLs) with a ceramic capacitor that has double the capacitance of CoG/NP0 types. Made to meet the U2J specification, the family has a linear -750±120ppm/ºC temperature coefficient – compared to zero for C0G/NP0 and non-linear for X7R – and works from -55 to +125ºC. “It also provides …