Google engineer Benson Leung has a somewhat unusual mission-- to test the many 3rd party USB Type-C cables available on the market] in order to let people know of the risks involved with such cables.

Leung worked on Google's recent Pixel devices, and insists many recently launched USB-C cables are actually not suitable for laptop or mobile device use. How come?Such cables might not be properly wired for laptop charging or fail to accurately identify power sources, leading to laptop, USB hub or charger damage.

"USB Type-C will only be as good as its ecosystem, and more specifically, the worst of its ecosystem," Leung writes.

Comprehensive announces the CDA-HD400E-- a pro AV/IT 1x4 4K splitter with CEC system reset and EDID capability able to simultaneously distribute up to 4 HDMI outputs from a single HDMI input.

It handles 4K video with 12-bit colour capability, and also supports 3D with resolutions up to 4Kx2K at 30Hz.

Qualcomm presents an ARM-based datacentre system on a chip (SoC)-- a vigintiquattuor-core (24-core) number designed for hyper-scale applications such as IaaS, PaaS, big data and machine learning.

The SoC is built in collaboration with network chip company Mellanox and programmable chip maker Xilinx, and is the result of 2 years of work on what will ultimately be a complete server platform. Seen in pre-production form, the initial version has 24 cores, but the maker says the final version will have even more.

The cores are based on the ARM v8-A instruction set. Being 64-bit the SoC can run Linux, KVM virtualisation, OpenStack DevStack for OpenStack cloud orchestration, guest VMs running a standard Linux distribution, Apache web web server and WordPress.

Extron Electronics introduces the HD 4K 110 Series, one input, one output signal regenerators that ensure signal integrity for HDMI sources with marginal or poor quality output. The signal regenerators are HDCP compliant, and support computer and video resolutions up to 4K, including 1080p/60 with Deep Color.

Designed to recondition signals at the source, they equalize the input signal, reduce jitter and skew, and provide output signal pre-emphasis to reliably extend the signal. Video resolutions up to 4K can be extended up to 25 feet (7.6 Read more...