The Qatar Engineering & Construction Company has awarded a contract to Veolia Water Technologies to engineer, procure and deliver a wastewater treatment plant for Dolphin Energy’s natural gas production and processing facilities in Ras Laffan…
SUEZ bags first ZLD contract in China in triple industrial project win
SUEZ has won three new industrial service contracts in China in the Oil & Gas and Petrochemicals sectors worth 19 million euros…
Mini-ITX Skylake board runs faster than Intel Ivy Bridge
BVM has announced the LV67-S mini-ITX format industrial grade embedded board which offers a 30% performance improvement over Intel Ivy Bridge processor-based modules. It sports an Intel 6th Generation Skylake i7/i5/i3 series and Xeon E3-1200 v5 processors, running under the Intel C236 chipset and mounted into a new format LGA 1151 socket. Two DDR4 DIMM …
Synaptics touch display driver cuts borders to 4mm
Synaptics is sampling a display driver IC which it says allows designers to customise their touchscreens adding borders of less than 4mm. The R63353 driver IC supports a range of resolutions from Full HD for smartphones, to lower resolution 320×320 formats targeting smartwatches. The device has auto contrast optimisation for balancing the light and dark …
European satellites send free data for farmers to monitor crops
Data from a new constellation of satellites will allow farmers to more precisely monitor land and sea to improve their farming businesses. The launch of the Sentinel satellites is part of the European Union’s Copernicus Earth observation programme. The six families of satellites provide data, free of charge, that could be used by farmers to predict the presence of disease …
European satellites send free data for farmers to monitor crops
IoT gateway is Microsoft Azure certified
An IoT gateway design kit is the result of a collaboration between Advantech, Intel and Microsoft. The pre-configured system is built around an Intel Celeron J1900 SoC and WES7E running Windows 7 Embedded with 4GB memory and 500GB HDD. The kit’s two two gateways have been verified through the Microsoft Azure Certified for IoT programme. The networking modules are the …
Cree beats 200lm/W in lighting LED
Cree has further up-graded its XP-G lighting LED, to version 3. XP-G3 delivers 31% more lumens and 8% higher lm/W that the XP-G2. “XP-G3 LED improves the lumen density, voltage characteristics and reliability of previous XP-G generations,” said Cree, claiming over 205 lm/W at 350mA and up to 863 lm at 2A will be available …
ST’s MEMS Business Keeps On Declining
ST’s declining position in MEMS, once the jewel in its crown, sees no sign of ending. According to Yole Development, ST’s MEMS revenues have declined for three years running. For ST, which had been given the No.1 position in the MEMS industry because Pasquale Pistorio had invested in MEMS development several years ahead of the …
Foundry Grew 4.4%; GloFo No.2.
The foundry market grew 4.4% in 2015 to $48.8 billion, says Gartner. “Foundry growth was only possible from the high wafer demand by Apple and the revenue conversion of a few integrated device manufacturers (IDMs) to foundries,” says Gartner’s Sam Wang. TSMC, grew 5.5% in 2015, driven by the success of 20 nm planar and …
The Two Worst Jobs In Tech
The two worst jobs in tech must be heading up Apple’s iWatch operation and heading up Intel’s IoT business. Not because these jobs are unrewarding, on the contrary they are generously rewarded, but because the holders of these jobs are on a hiding to nothing. Earlier this month it was announced that the vp in …