Apparently Toshiba feels it will get the most money if it delays the sale beyond April because the best bids may come from bidders which will require regulatory approval.

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The first HDMI Alternate Mode cable, which allows phones, cameras and set-top boxes with USB-C video outputs to connect with HDMI port-equipped displays, including HD and 4K TVs

Read full article: Cypress makes HDMI over USB-C possible

Renesas joins the Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) project, which provides a base layer Linux Civil Infrastructure Platformor industrial-grade open-source software for civil infrastructure.

Read full article: Renesas joins industrial Linux organisation

Lemo will launch the Anglissimo range of rotatable right-angled connectors at the Broadcast Video Expo 2017.

Read full article: Lemo launches right-angled broadcast connector

EasyLogix enables browser-based PCB design optimisation in version 8 of its PCB-Investigator, CAD/ CAM software for review of electronic assemblies during development.

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Large-scale distributed denial of service (DDoS) internet attacks increased 140% year-over-year from Q4 2015, according to the Q4 2016 ‘state of the internet’ security report from Massachusetts content delivery network firm Akamai Technologies, which carries a significant proportion of global web traffic. It uses data gathered by its own software to analyse threats to cloud …

Read full article: Internet attacks more than double in a year

Paul Mullen, managing director of Anders Electronics, tells Electronics Weekly how he has had to reassure his staff from the EU that Brexit will not affect their right to work for the company.

Read full article: EU staff get reassurance over Brexit

The small low-loss metallised polypropylene film capacitors for active filters, high frequency circuits and high current circuits.

Read full article: Panasonic introduces small, low-loss metallised polypropylene film capacitors

A TI-er who became a GI-er gained a fearsome reputation for spotting flaws in presentations. He came up with a new business model and, with Philips, used it to found a jv semiconductor start-up which became one of the industry’s greatest companies. The company based itself on the fundamental principle of achieving process excellence and …

Read full article: Fable: The Revolutionary

Japanese researchers have built a transmitter capable 105Gbit/s over a single 290-315GHz channel. Last year, the same group demonstrated QAM (quadrature amplitude modulation) at 300GHz to enhance data rate. “This year, they showed six times higher per-channel data rate, exceeding 100Gbit/s for the first time as an integrated-circuit-based transmitter,” said Panasonic, which worked with Hiroshima …

Read full article: ISSCC: Panasonic moots terahertz space links for satellites and aircraft