A semiconductor junction with the newly-discovered material borophene might offer a route to determining if it is electronically useful.

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With new technology, imagination usually takes over from sober assessment when it comes to forecasting deployment time-tables. We saw crazily over-optimistic estimates from Google and Tesla about 2017/2018 introduction of driverless cars. Now responsible techies are saying it’ll be more like 2040 before the general public will be able to own a driverless car which …

Read full article: 5G Bollox

Infineon is offering a DC-DC regulator aimed at high density Point of Load applications

Read full article: Infineon DC-DC regulator aimed at Point of Load applications

TSMC will start risk production on 5nm in H1 2019, its co-CEO Mark,Liu told the company’s annual supply chain management forum yesterday, reports Digitimes. Risk production on 7nm starts in Q1 2017 with volume production in 2018 10nm production shipments will expand rapidly in H2 2017, said Liu. EUV will start being used at 7nm …

Read full article: 5nm for 2019, says TSMC

Imec has its funding from the Flanders government increased to $108 million a year for the next five years.

Read full article: Flanders ups Imec grant

Google’s spun off driverless car unit Waymo is suing Uber’s driverless truck subsidiary Otto for stealing its technology.

Read full article: Waymo sues Uber

AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory (Enterprise Edition), known as AWS Microsoft AD, is now available in the EU (London) Region. 

Amazon EC2 I3 instances are the latest generation of Storage Optimized High-I/O instances, designed for the most demanding High I/O workloads, featuring low-latency Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) based SSDs. I3 instances are ideal for workloads like transactional processing systems, relational and NoSQL databases, data warehousing applications, analytics workloads and Elasticsearch workloads. 

Veolia has been appointed project manager for the construction of five new water treatment plants in the Greater Matale agricultural region of Sri Lanka…

 

Singapore membrane technology company De.mem hopes to expand sales of its membrane technology across Asia after an initial public offering…