Shanghai Huali Microelectronics (HLMC), the foundry company majority-owned by Shanghai’s local government, is to build a second fab, reports Digitimes. The fab is expected to start running 28nm wafers in 2018 and be capable, when fully equipped, of running 40k wpm. HLMC’s Fab 1 is a 35k wpm fab running 65nm, 55nm, 40nm and 28nm …

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Lumileds has delivered new high- and mid-power LEDs for horticultural lighting including a phosphor-converted purple LED that mixes the blue and red wavelengths critical for photosynthesis in a single emitter.

A five year Groundwater Quality report has been used to show Hawke’s Bay aquifer systems are suitable for drinking water supply…

French company SUEZ Ventures has acquired a 22% minority share in biogas recovery firm Prodeval…

The Thomaston plant was presented this award for successfully completing the self-assessment and peer review phase of the Partnership program.

Want a teardown of the new Apple Watch Series 2 and Apple iPhone 7? Step forward iFixit.

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I could have sworn I had put this circuit on the blog before, but having failed to find it, here it is, possibly again. I have combined op-amps and mosfets to make high-current sinks, and had mixed results, sometimes making oscillators. The error I have discovered (see diagram below), is to simply connect the op-amp …

Read full article: The right way to do a current sink

We are excited to announce two new edge locations in Frankfurt, Germany for Amazon CloudFront. Frankfurt city now have five edge locations which brings the total number of worldwide edge locations to 63.  

A public-private partnership including SUEZ, NSC Water and NuWater will finance, build and operate the new 190,000 m3/day desalination plant in Playas de Rosarito…

H₂Oil & Gas has been awarded a contract to design and supply equipment for a produced water treatment plant in Malaysia…