Temporary desalination facilities will begin supplying Cape Town by December or January, city mayor Patricia de Lille confirmed in a briefing on Wednesday 4 October 2017.

Samtec has introduced a low-profile PCI Express Gen 4 edge card connector which its says has good signal integrity because of its design of contact. The contact system is designed to minimise the effects of broadside coupling, which decreases crosstalk which improves signal integrity and impedance control. The supplier says the contact system is also …

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UK-based military electronics specialist Ultra Electronics has won a $16.2m extension to a security technology contract with the US Navy.

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Intel’s fifth CEO, Paul Otellini, who led the company between 2005 and 2012, has died at the age of 66. The chip giant announced yesterday that Otellini died in his sleep on Monday (2 October). Otellini became Intel’s fifth CEO in 2005, a position he held until 2012. Under his leadership the company grew its …

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With Europe having designated the millimetre-wave (mmWave) around 26GHz as a ‘Pioneer Band’ for developing 5G mobile systems, UK microwave specialist Plextek RFI has developed a mmWave front-end module. The band 24.25 to 27.5GHz was designated at the end of last year by the EU Radio Spectrum Policy Group (RSPG) as the preferred band for …

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Cambridge Consultants is shaping the future of deliveries with precision location and identification technology. Reimagining the future of on-demand deliveries, product design and development firm Cambridge Consultants has developed DelivAir, a drone delivery concept that can deliver a package straight to the hands of its recipient, no matter their location. Drone delivery systems have been …

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Today, the EC is launching a draft document proposing that VAT on cross-border sales will be levied on the location of the buyer, not the residency of the seller. The move is clearly designed to thwart the tax machinations of companies like Apple which, by using techniques like the ‘Double Irish’ and the ‘Dutch Sandwich’ …

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Imec has fabricated a demonstrator of a neural probe with unprecedented electrode density within the framework of the  Neuroseeker EU-project. Designed and fabricated in silicon technology, the probe is suitable for breakthrough bio-interfaces and implants that will shape the future of neuroscience. With hundreds of electrodes capable of contacting and reading out single neurons, this …

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Creating embedded platforms for integrated automotive infotainment creates challenges of design and scale, writes Andrew Patterson of Mentor.

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Xilinx is sampling its Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoC family, an architecture integrating the RF signal chain into an SoC for 5G wireless, cable Remote-PHY, and radar. Based on 16nm UltraScale+ MPSoC architecture, the All Programmable RFSoCs monolithically integrate RF data converters for up to 50-75 percent system power and footprint reduction, and soft-decision Forward Error Correction …

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