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The Type 26 frigates, also known as the City-class frigates, are a series of new multirole warships being built for the UK Royal Navy.

Microchip has just announced the PIC18-Q20 family of 8-bit microcontrollers (MCUs) that feature larger program and data spaces, an I2C peripheral block and one or two I3C peripheral blocks, very low pin counts, and packages as small as 3x3 mm. These devices are available in 14- and 20-pin packages with 16 to 64 Kbytes of…

Increasing Use of Level Gauge to Measure Water Level to Provide Growth Opportunities for Level Gauge Market During 2022-2028

Last November, we celebrated the 75th anniversary of the announcement by Bell Telephone Labs (BTL) of the transistor’s birth. Many articles about the early transistor developments have appeared, but I started to wonder about the earliest commercial transistor vendors. In Part 1 of this article, I discussed an incomplete list of attendees at a transistor…

Gary Boone, who worked in the Texas Instruments (TI) MOS Department, devised the first chip that can be called a microcontroller because he was becoming bored with his job and in trouble with his family. He’d joined TI in 1969 just when calculator chips were getting to be big business. During the 1960s, electronic calculators…

Ray Holt was a most unlikely candidate to develop a microprocessor chip set for the US Navy’s new F-14 variable-wing fighter jet. From an early age, Holt was a lackluster student, fully committed to a planned career as a professional baseball player. In 1962, as a senior at Dominguez High School in Compton, California, career…

With all the talk about 8-bit, 16-bit, 32-bit, and 64-bit processors that is constantly swirling around us, I’m not sure how many of today’s younger engineers are aware that the first commercial microprocessor, the Intel 4004, was a 4-bit machine (although, in hindsight -- which is the one true science -- the part number is…

/PRNewswire/ -- Nikola Corporation (Nasdaq: NKLA), a global leader in zero-emission transportation and energy infrastructure solutions, today announced that it...

/PRNewswire/ -- Nikola Corporation (Nasdaq: NKLA), a global leader in zero-emission transportation and energy infrastructure solutions, today announced that it...

PHOENIX, Feb. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Nikola Corporation (Nasdaq: NKLA), a global leader in zero-emission transportation and energy infrastructur...