Well it’s Referendum Week. The level of debate has been deplorable. Lies, appeals to emotion, patriotic slogans and slander have been the currency of the discussion. Out of all our hundreds of publicly-funded politicians not one has been prepared to give an even-handed account of the pros and cons. All have been partisan and that …

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The SEMI book-to-bill continues positive with 1.09 for May in line with April’s 1.09 though slightly down from March’s 1.15. May bookings totalled $1.75 – 9.6% higher than April’s $1.60 billion, and is 13.1% higher than the May 2015 order level of $1.55 billion. may billings were $1.60 billion – 9.6 p% higher than April’s …

SEMI book-to-bill continues positive

Insight SIP l, the wireless RF module specialist, has packaged the nRF51822 chip from Nordic Semiconductor (running Bluetooth 4.1), a 32-bit ARM Cortex CPU, 128 kB flash memory, analogue and digital peripherals SPI, I2C and GPIO, a 16 MHz crystal, an RF antenna and matching circuit to form a standalone Bluetooth Low Energy node. Called …

Insight SIP launches low cost BLE module

To house small PCBs using USB as the external power and signal interconnect, Hammond Electronics has extended its 1551 miniature enclosure family with three new sizes, all 15.5mm high: 35 x 20mm 50 x 25mm 65 x 30mm “The sizes have been chosen after customer consultation to provide prototype builders and small volume OEMs generous …

Small enclosures for USB dongles, Arduino and BeagleBone

A lot of people see this as a bit of a facer for the Yanks – China has built the world’s fastest computer using China-designed microprocessors. Its processor is a 260-core chip developed by the Jiangnan Computing Lab called the ShenWei SW26010 running army 1.45GHz delivering 3 Teraflops. The ShenWei processors were said to have …

A Tin Crown

AWS Competency Program & Government Partners

The AWS Partner Network (APN) is thrilled to announce the launch of the new AWS Government Competency. The AWS Competency Program is designed to highlight APN Partners who have demonstrated technical proficiency and proven customer success in specialized solution areas and categories.

AWS Government Competency Partners provide solutions to—and/or have deep experience working with—government customers to deliver mission-critical workloads and applications on AWS.

AdEdge will design and manufacture a biottta treatment plant rated for a maximum flow of 1.5 MGD.

The company intends to replace eight miles of water mains, as well as service lines, valves, fire hydrants and meters.

The State Water Resources Control Board ended mandatory emergency conservation in May 2016, it asked water agencies to instead demonstrate whether they have sufficient supplies for the next three years, assuming the drought continues. 

Pipeline rehabilitation projects total $21.7 Million in contracts.