Tesla’s bottlenecks and hand grenades

The saying “Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades” was brought to mind in the third bullet point that heads the Tesla third-quarter 2017 update letter signed by Elon Musk, chairman and CEO, and Deepak Ahuja, CFO. The letter contains enough information about the Dante-esque undertaking known as “producing the Model 3” to add […]

Pushback: Tesla Provides Details on Model 3 Production Delays and “Bottlenecks”

-Tesla CEO Elon Musk, at various times, has pointed to the adoption of an unprecedented level of assembly automation—an alien dreadnought, he called it—as one of the reasons his company continues to claim it can ramp up its production of its more affordable sedan, the Model 3, so quickly and how it intends to produce more […]

Prototype ‘3D’ chip from MIT could eliminate memory bottlenecks

Future CPUs will have to deal with growing amounts of data, but all too often they are slowed down by bandwidth issues between the processor and RAM. A prototype chip built by researchers at Stanford and MIT can solve the problem by sandwiching the memory, processor and even sensors all into one unit. While current […]