Gartner and IC Insights have looked at the foundry industry which grows whatever happens to the rest of the semiconductor industry: The IC Insights view: The Gartner view:

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Adesto Technologies, the CBRAM developer, has teamed with board supplier Embedded Masters to help developers of Adesto-based products get products to market faster. Adesto and Embedded Masters wrote and tested native low‐level Flash firmware drivers and application programming interface (API) software routines for a range of Adesto memory IC breakout boards with the Silicon Labs …

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Nano Dimension, the Israeli 3D printer specialist, has supplied the first DragonFly 2020 system designated for 3D circuitry and PCBs to a leading defense company in Israel. To date, Nano Dimension has proven its capabilities of printing multilayer electric circuits in lab conditions. With the first supply of the DragonFly 2020 system for testing, Nano …

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After Uber announced it would launch driverless taxis in Pittsburgh by the end of the year, a start-up called nuTonomy has said has launched a driverless taxi service in Singapore. The only snag is that the driverless taxis require both a computer-watcher and a back-up driver. The Lidar-equipped cars will be provided by Renault and …

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Following an earlier framework focusing on luminaires for street and roadway applications, the Scotland Excel program has now moved to preselect firms that can perform installations thus simplifying the SSL transition process for councils across the country.

Six major luminaire series from various Philips Lighting brands offer support for the new tunable-white SSL platform that relies on the company’s Dynalite network control platform.

You can now run Tomcat applications with an Nginx proxy server in your AWS Elastic Beanstalk environments. Previously, you could only run an Apache proxy server with Tomcat.  

Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has unveiled details of a contract handed to an unnamed company to develop a new desalination facility at Jebel Ali power station.

Oman increased the amount of water it produces by 6 per cent to 300 million m3 in 2015, the Omani Public Authority for Electricity and Water’s (PAEW) annual report shows.

The plant received the prestigious Phase IV 5-Year Excellence in Water Treatment Award from the Partnership for Safe Water.