Most Read articles – RP2040, SpaceX satellites, automotive chips Let’s take a Friday look at the five most popular articles on ElectronicsWeekly.com that were written in the last week, using the numbers from Google Analytics. It’s a chance to see what your peers have been reading. What are the topics covered this week? There’s the new Raspberry Pi RP2040, Lockheed Martin handing over the Orion spacecraft, the head of ARM China, more SpaceX success for StarLink launches, and special pleading from the US auto industry… Farnell has today announced availability of the first product built on Raspberry Pi-designed silicon: Raspberry Pi Pico. It brings Raspberry Pi’s signature values of high performance, low cost, and ease of use to the microcontroller market, in a game-changing $4 development kit. Farnell customers will be able to purchase the Raspberry Pi Pico from the Farnell website from Monday 25 January. Raspberry Pi Pico is built around the brand-new Raspberry Pi RP2040 microcontroller, delivering a flexible, highly affordable development platform that can also be directly deployed into end products, reducing time-to-market.