The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Institute for Water Resources has awarded the Company a five-year multiple-award task order contract to support the USACE’s water resources management programs.
Water Treatment Plant on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, employs GE technology
Prior to the opening of the new plant, the city had experienced boil water advisories due to elevated turbidity.
Desert water line project uses McElroy fusion machine
Materials are part of an effort to replace aged and leaking concrete water delivery structures were delivered in March near the Mexico border in San Luis, Ariz.
Water groups testify at Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
The hearing was titled “The Federal Role in Keeping Water and Wastewater Infrastructure Affordable.”
Robotics for trenchless sewer rehabilitation to be distributed by LMK
For 8 years, LMK has been selling, servicing and maintaining Schwalm robots from its Ottawa, Illinois corporate headquarters.
Nvidia sues Qualcomm for Icera demise
Nvidia is suing Qualcomm in London for killing Icera – the Bristol wireless start-up bought by Nvidia for $352 million. Four years after buying Icera, Nvidia closed it down. Nvidia alleges that the Icera closure was brought about by Qualcomm’s illegal practices which amounted to an abuse of a dominant market position. Qualcomm’s practices led, …
Xilinx and IBM put big data FPGA design in the cloud
Cloud-based FPGA design is the focus of a tie-up between Xilinx and IBM. IBM’s cloud service will host the Xilinx SDAccel development environment which will allow developers to describe their algorithms in OpenCL, C, and C++ and then compile directly to Xilinx FPGA-based acceleration boards. This is an open access cloud service, called SuperVessel, which can …
Fable: Failing Memory
The dream of the universal memory – a memory that is dense, fast to read, fast to write, non-volatile, low power, enduring and fits all memory applications – has eluded the industry for 50 years. In the late 60s such a memory was developed by Bell Labs. It was as dense as hard disc and …
3D printer makes PCBs
DragonFly 2020 is a 3D printer that can print PCBs, including flexies, from Israel-based Nano Dimension. Due to be available later this year, the printer uses a combination of nano-particle conductive and dielectric inks and can print multi-layer PCBs. Most recently, it filed a patent on a way of printing conductors with printed shields to cut …
Leti signs deal to bring medical device tech to market
Leti, the French semiconductor tech centre, is working with ARaymondlife, a device manufacturer for the IVD industry, to develop medical devices, especially in the field of microfluidic cartridge analysis. The aim is to create portable bio-med systems which can reduced the cost of sample analysis. Leti CEO Marie Semeria, writes: “This partnership combines our competencies …