Antenova, the Hatfield antenna specialist, has expanded its design and development facility in Taipei’s technology quarter Nei Hu District, Taiwan. This is in response to the increasing demand from customers for antennas for M2M and IoT applications. Antenova’s engineering resources cover the USA, Europe and Asia, with a specialist RF team in Taipei leading the …
Tsinghua buys stake in Lattice
Acquisitive Chinese investor Tsinghua Unigroup has bought 6% of Lattice. Lattice was rumoured as being a takeover target of Tsinghua earlier this year. Lattice’s shares rose 15.5% on news of the deal. The speculation is that Tsinghua wants Lattice for the same reason as Intel bought Altera, to.provide FPGA acceleration in server SoCs. The effect …
Picosecond lasers target electronics production
Coherent of Santa Clara has introduced a range of picosecond lasers for use in microelectronics, display and solar cell fabrication. HyperRapid NX product range includes 1064nm output models with pulse energies as high as 250μJ (10ps pulse typical at repetition rates up to 2MHz. “This enables high throughput processes, including enough power for the beam to …
Artificial intelligence will do the teaching in 2041
Researchers at New York University are looking 25 years ahead to predict the role artificial intelligence will play in living, learning and research. “Advanced cyber-learning environments that involve virtual reality and artificial intelligence innovations are becoming powerful tools that can facilitate the explorations and conversations needed to solve society’s challenges,” said NYU engineer Dr Winslow …
Elektra Industry Awards 2016 open for entries
It is time to enter the industry’s largest technology and business awards: the Elektra European Electronics Industry Awards 2016. You could see your company’s technical and business achievements recognised and presented to an international audience at a Gala Dinner which takes place on 1 December 2016 at the Grosvenor House Hotel, Park Lane, London. The …
Princeton suggests fermion transistor
Researchers at Princeton University are predicting a state of matter in which current flows only through surface channels over an insulator. These channels are created through the action of the ‘hourglass fermion’, a theorised particle which arises due to a special property of the material. “The tuning of this property can sequentially create and destroy …
Major League Baseball opens with LED sports lighting in San Diego and Arlington
New LED sports lighting projects extend the energy savings, control, and special effects capabilities of SSL to America’s Pastime.
Water reclamation facility in Montana completed with Sionix Corporation
The plant, located in Culbertson, Montana, employs Sionix’s proprietary patented Dissolved Air Flotation technology.
SoCal Waterworks nabs NorCal Delta Islands for $175M
The agency has been in negotiations for months to purchase 20,370 acres of property owned by Delta Wetlands Properties in Contra Costa, San Joaquin, and Solano counties.
Global desalination plant investment to grow 17% a year
Market analyst BCC Research has forecast in a recent report that global cumulative investments
in desalination facilities will hit close to US$ 48.2 billion by 2020, from some US$ 21.4 billion
in 2015 – a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 17.6%.