Five municipalities to supply rehab services and screw pump replacements to improve performance and save maintenance costs.

Carve-out of HD Supply’s Waterworks Division valued at $2.5 Billion.

The bonding of difficult materials can be improved by plasma treatment, according to PVA TePla – silicone and PTFE are amongst the firm’s specialities.

Read full article: Plasma treatment improves silicone coating adhesion

24.7 million wearables shipped in Q1, says IDC, up nearly 18% on Q1 2016. Xiaomi and Apple each shipped 3.6 million devices taking a collective 29.3% of the market. Fitbit came in 3rd with 3 million units and 12.3% market share. Samsung, shipping 1.4 million wearables, came in No.4 with 5.5% share and Garmin, shipping 1.1 …

Read full article: Wearables market still in first stage of development

Q1 semiconductor manufacturing equipment billings were 14% up on Q4 and 58% up onQ1 2016, reportsv SEMI. Q1 billings reached $13.1 billion with March billings reaching $5.6 billion – an all-time monthly record. Quarterly billings of $13.1 billion also represent the first time quarterly billings exceeded the record quarterly high set in the third quarter of …

Read full article: SEMI sales soar

Roy Rubenstein publishes an interesting interview with Tom Conte about the work of the ITRS successor IRDM

Read full article: The Future Of Semiconductors

Imec demonstrates a plastic 12-bit RFID tag and read-out system with screen-printed circuitry.

Read full article: Imec makes plastic 12-bit RFID tag with screen printed circuit

Tektronix is offering up to eight 2GHz analogue channels and a 15.6inch touch screen display on its latest mixed signal oscilloscopes (MSOs), which also include test functions such as signal generation (see below). Called ‘5 Series’ MSO, analogue resolution is 12bit, and the analogue channels can be traded for up to 64 digital channels via …

Read full article: Tektronix announces 8 channel 2GHz scope with big screen and up to 64 digital channels

The only headline of note is continuing progress of Nougat (Android version 7.x), which almost reaches a 10% share.

Read full article: Android platform stats: June sees Nougat gain some traction

According to the Economic Daily News, TSMC will be offering embedded MRAM in 2018 and embedded RRAM in 2019. Both technologies will be for the 22nm finfet process node. Last month Samsung announced that foundry customers can have embedded MRAM in their 28nm FD-SOI SoCs. NXP is the first customer. Samsung’s MRAM is said to …

Read full article: TSMC to have eMRAM in 2018 and eRRAM in 2019