Water Planet has launched its new membrane filtration product, PolyCera, which it claims outpaces the current range of polymeric membranes, and costs less.

The midstream division of Holland Services oversaw all aspects of the pipeline from design, engineering, right of way, environmental, construction, and testing.

Craig Frendewey, Senior Vice President, will take full responsibility of its North American operations.

Mediatek will be in volume production on TSMC’s 10nm process in Q1 2017, reports DigiTimes. Three clients have taped out on 10nm according to TSMC and TSMC says it expects to get its first 10nm revenues in Q1. One of these three tape-outs could be from Apple which will be going into 10nm production at …

Read full article: MediaTek in 10nm volume production in Q1

MIT researchers have fabricated an ion trap and optical waveguide together in a standard lithographic process creating a path for trapped-ion quantum computing. “Experiments so far have employed optical systems that are cumbersome to scale to even a few tens of qubits, ” say the researchers, “here we demonstrate lithographically defined nanophotonic waveguide devices for …

Read full article: MIT integrates ion trap and wave guide for quantum computing

Global Android smartphone shipments grew 5% from 552.2 million units in H1 2015 to 577.3 million in H1 2016, says Strategy Analytics.

Read full article: Android outstripping iOS

miDiagnostics aims to develop IC-based diagnostic tests which use drops of blood to detect cells, proteins, nucleic acids, and/or small molecules.

Read full article: Imec’s miDiagnostics joint venture does blood tests from blood-drop

Samsung, TSMC and Intel are all expected to be in 10nm production in Q1 2017. Mind you, the 10nm node doesn’t mean what a process node number used to mean – the minimum feature size on TSMC’s 10nm process will be 20nm. Mediatek will be in volume production on TSMC’s 10nm process in Q1 2017, …

Read full article: 10nm Lines Up For Q1.

Intel is said to be paying over $350 million for a two-year-old 48-person start-up called Nervana, which is involved in deep learning and AI

Read full article: Intel pays $350m for two-year-old AI company

Thanks to Bloomberg and SWF Investment for this one – the eight biggest sovereign wealth funds: $bn Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund 2000 Norway 850 Abu Dhabi 800 China Investment Corp 750 Saudi Arabia Monetary Agency 600 Kuwait 600 SAFE Investment China 475 Hong Kong 450

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