Has Toshiba been playing a crafty game all along? The consensus view is that Toshiba has made a right balls up of its sale of its chip business – dithering, procrastinating and exasperating all the participants. But could it have played a clever game – keeping its creditors and bankers at bay with the promise of a cash bonanza – ...

Ultra Electronics, the UK military and aerospace electronics specialist, has signed an expanded agreement with a Japanese partner during Prime Minister Theresa May’s visit to the country.

 There was once a very great electrical inventor who denied the existence of electrons.  He sold a patent to Westinghouse for the equivalent of $1.5 million in today’s money.  John Jacob Astor invested the modern equivalent of $2.4 million in his inventions and John Pierpont Morgan invested the equivalent of $4.5 million.  He lived high off the hog – at one time at ...

French microelectronics research organisation, Leti will provide access to the Mentor Veloce emulator for small firms and startups following a partnership with the EDA firm. Emulation is a technique used by major chip firms in the development of complex ICs, which allows them to debug the design at early stages by validating software before committing to silicon. However, emulators are high ...

Researchers at the University of Southampton have created a robot to mimic the swimming style of a prehistoric sea creature. Luke Muscutt, a PhD student in Engineering and the Environment, lead the team which worked with partners at the University of Bristol to analyse the propulsion method of plesiosaurs –marine reptiles that lived at the same time as dinosaurs and ...

The open source design platform from TinyCircuits, which includes the TinyDuino, is now being sold by Digi-Key Electronics, following a distribution agreement between the two companies. TinyCircuits platforms are aimed at the maker market but are also used by university students. The core product is an Arduino-compatible platform. Called TinyDuino it uses electronic building blocks for adding functions, like GPS, ...

Toshiba has again missed a self-imposed deadline to pick a winning bid for its memory chip business but has said it is negotiating with three bidding groups. The group was expected to announce the winner today (Thursday 31 August) of the unit, which is expected to fetch as much as $20bn. In a statement this morning, the Japanese group said ...

Streetlight remote management firm InteliLight has used Swiss company U-blox’s Sara-N2 series of  narrowband IoT (NB‑IoT) modules to control a connected smart streelight system in Romania. InteliLight used Flashnet’s NB‑IoT connected smart street lighting control system. A pilot project is already deployed on the OTE (Telekom) network in Patras, Greece. Having identified NB‑IoT as strategically important, InteliLight chose to partner with ...

Socionext, the hardware HEVC encoding specialist, and Advantech, the video acceleration specialist, are to provide live hardware transcoding products for the datacentres supporting MPEG2, AVC (H.264) and HEVC (H.265). Socionext real time dense transcode solution, also known as the “Media Cloud”, enables advanced HEVC compression technology and real-time transcoding capabilities for OTT applications. Socionext’s partnership with Advantech includes the integration of Socionext’s ...

Renesas is sampling an  8.48 megapixel (MP) CMOS image sensor that supports 4K video cameras for security cameras and plans mass production in December. Renesas says that The sensor achieves clear, high-visibility full-color imaging even in a moonlit environment and captures clear, high-visibility images even when digital zoom is used due to its capture of high-reliability 4K video at 60 fps. It ...