Cavium and China Unicom are to collaborate on the development of Virtualised BBU, looking to provide a path for 5G adoption.

Read full article: Cavium joins China Unicom for vBBU development

Imec shows a silicon-passivated germanium nMOS gate stack with dramatically reduced interface defect density reaching the same level as a Si gate stack and with high mobility and reduced positive bias temperature instability.

Read full article: Imec shows Si-passivated Ge nMOS gate stack

A group of MPs in the the British Infrastructure Group (BIG) have proposed compulsory roaming on mobile operators, as a means of improving rural coverage.

Read full article: Compulsory roaming is not the best way to improve mobile coverage

Digi-Key is now offering a range of DoE Level VI and CoC Tier 2-compliant external AC-DC adapters from power firm CUI.

Read full article: Digi-Key offers DoE Level VI and CoC Tier 2 power supplies

3D-imaging sensor company Vayyar Imaging is launching  a maker design contest with Hackster to create apps with its fully programmable 3D sensor, Walabot, used with Raspberry Pi. Open to participants in US, Europe and China, they can choose from 40 different applications on the Walabot App List — or start from scratch and build their own. The …

Read full article: 3D imaging on Raspberry Pi – design competition

Despite a contraction in the number of early stage start-up deals in the US, some of the deals happening are large by historical standards, reports CB Insights. A few large deals are pulling up average sizes and there were five $30M+ Series A rounds in Q3’16. In 2016, early-stage US tech funding saw $6.9 billion …

Read full article: Fewer But Bigger US Early- Stage VC Funding Deals

The founder of Sprague Electric, Robert Sprague, had a brother, Julian, who was made vp of sales. Unlike his visionary, risk-taker brother who wanted to grow the company, Julian was a risk-averse, profit-oriented person. He hated his brother’s foray into semiconductors when Sprague licensed Bell’s point contact transistor in 1952. So Julian hired Arthur D …

Read full article: Transistor-Making Best Left To Jewellers

AWS is excited to announce immediate availability of the new Canada (Central) Region. Canada joins Northern Virginia, Ohio, Oregon, Northern California, and AWS GovCloud as the sixth AWS Region in North America and as the fifteenth worldwide, bringing the total number of AWS Availability Zones to 40 globally.

In the wake of unprecedented water crises in America, a new report from the US Water Alliance outlines multi-pronged strategies for building a more sustainable water future

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