It may not look like a truck but this is Tesla’s electric pick-up truck announced yesterday in Los Angeles.   Called the Cybertruck it costs $40/50/70k depending on spec. The top spec model has a 500 mile range. Production is scheduled for late 2021. “The top three selling vehicles in America are pickup trucks, said ...

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Three new centres to train the next generation of engineers could be built on Hereford’s Enterprise Zone after the Marches LEP agreed a £5.66 million funding package for the city’s proposed new university.   The decision follows a submission of a business case to the LEP from the New Model in Technology and Engineering (NMiTE) ...

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It’s rare for  Intel to apologise for anything and then, like London buses, two come along in quick succession. In  October 2018 Intel’s CEO wrote to customers apologising for the shortage of  CPUs which had been getting worse all through that summer. ”We’re taking the following actions,” wrote Bob Swan, ‘we are investing a record $15 billion ...

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Renesas has developed the R-IN32M4-CL3 IC for Industrial Ethernet (IE) communication with support for CC-Link IE Time Sensitive Networking (TSN), a communication standard for Ethernet TSN technology. The chip satisfies the specifications of less than one-millionth of a second time synchronization accuracy between applications, accelerating TSN support for applications such as AC servos, actuators, and vision ...

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UltraSoC, the Cambridge on-chip analytics IP specialist, has joined the Open Hardware Group (OpenHW) to further the adoption of open source processors  for high volume SoCs. UltraSoC will contribute its experience and IP in system-level debug and processor trace. The OpenHW Group has announced a range of cores, dubbed CORE-V, based on the RISC-V open ISA. ...

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ST is sampling 4Mbit serial EEPROMs made on ST’s 110nm process. The memories can write 512 bytes in 5ms. The chips come in 8-pin SO8N and TSSOP8 packages with the option of an 8-bump WLCSP package. The EEPROMs, designated M95M04, have a supply range of 1.8V to 5.5V. Data retention is 40-years. ST sees the chips ...

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