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...“Once they receive US subsidies, they will come under stronger US control for their decision-making and business activities, which will restrict their investment and production in China,” said Lee....
...Research from the Rocky Mountain Institute published yesterday argues “there is a clear exponential growth pattern for electric vehicle sales”....
...South Korean chipmakers are heavily reliant on their Chinese plants for a substantial part of their D-Ram and Nand flash memory chip production....
...Nikkei Inc....
...Its software combs through data, aggregates information, finds patterns and presents them in ways that are intended to be useful and easy to understand....
...Samsung is building a $17bn foundry in Taylor, Texas, while SK Hynix is planning to build an advanced chip packaging plant in the US. “We’re perplexed by these unexpected conditions....
...The Philippine government has announced it will hand out 12.7bn pesos of financial aid to about 2.3mn rice farmers, to help them deal with the effects of the El Niño weather pattern and rising production...
...Koh Dong-jin, co-chief executive and head of Samsung’s mobile business, has warned of possible problems in the second quarter because of the chip shortage....
...To that end, the company is setting up one production site each in the Taiwanese cities of Hsinchu and Tainan. From the perspective of Apple and other clients, TSMC has significant advantages....
...The company last month began mass production of 3-nanometer chips, that are more powerful and efficient than predecessors, to take on TSMC in the battle to dominate the high end chip market....
...The crisis has prompted European leaders to seek to avoid being overly reliant on chip production from Asia, such as industry leader Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co....
...Fumiaki Sato, co-founder of Sangyo Sosei Advisory, a boutique investment banking company, aims to establish a chip foundry that would provide manufacturing services for any and all of Japan’s power chipmakers...
...in movement”, says Sheep Inc co-founder Edzard van der Wyck....
...A collaboration between traceable knitwear brand Sheep Inc and the Yawanawá people themselves, the collection uses fine merino wool and geometric patterns inspired by traditional drawings. sheepinc.com...
...Access to basic materials, a smooth-running supply chain, production scaling and advanced processes and designs are all of vital importance....
...The EUV machine is indispensable in the production of cutting-edge chips of 7 nm and below, helping project the complicated patterns of integrated circuits on a microscale....
...The $17bn factory is intended to help boost production of advanced logic chips used in smartphones, high-performance computing and for artificial intelligence....
...A Peloton deal could bolster Amazon’s broad ambitions in healthcare and wellness. In 2020 Amazon launched a fitness band, Halo, that monitors activity and sleep patterns....
...A natural to play Hamlet on stage, he did, in 1979, and among his 1980s movies, he also appeared in three off-Broadway Shakespeare productions, Henry V, Richard II and A Midsummer Night’s Dream....
...But on the Peloton, “there’s ‘us’ and then there’s ‘them’, the non-Peloton people. We are something special because we are together, pushing each other and co-operating.”...
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...Tesla needs the newest generation mass-production chips, which are made mainly in Taiwan and South Korea....
...Peter Hanbury, a partner specialising in chip and tech supply chain at Bain & Co, told Nikkei chip prices will probably rise into next year because of the time it takes to expand production capacity....
...We made changes to our production line and shift patterns to enable social distancing, reopened the factory in April and took everyone off furlough....
...“Its foundry business suffered losses due to a power failure in the Austin plant. But chip prices began to rise in March and will increase further in the second quarter.”...
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