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...“TSMC will slice those contracts very thinly for the sake of saving cost,” says Charles Lee, co-chief executive at Topco, a Taiwanese company which manages certain chemicals and parts supplies for TSMC....
...Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co, the world’s largest maker of advanced chips, stopped some chipmaking machinery and evacuated staff from facilities after the quake....
...After all, no carmaker has yet managed to achieve mass production and Nissan’s solid-state factory remains home to hopes rather than actual machinery. david.keohane@ft.com...
...John Smedley has spent upwards of £3mn to install new machinery ahead of the factory’s opening....
...TSMC has struggled to find enough skilled workers for the installation of key advanced machinery....
...It tickles the part of the brain that enjoys tinkering and experimentation, of seeing machinery come to life through human input....
...“While the requirement may apply to many countries, it will affect China the most since Chinese civil-military fusion factories had a history of buying DMG machineries,” said a former DMG China executive...
...In a move aimed more at people than machinery, Mercedes’ Brackley revamp includes pedestrianising the campus as well as adding restaurants, gyms and marketing buildings....
...Blockades often rely on the co-operation of allies. The US has every reason to want Japan and the Netherlands to join its ban on exporting advanced semiconductor machinery to China....
...I would like to support the CO₂ net zero agenda personally and through my manufacturing business....
...The company, the fourth-largest construction machinery maker in the world, now hopes to boost its presence in foreign markets....
...In January, it offloaded about half of its stake in Hitachi Construction Machinery to trading house Itochu and a Japanese investment fund....
...TSMC issued an indirect warning that the rollout of that capacity could hit further delays as new problems have appeared in the supply of crucial manufacturing machinery....
...Hong Kong university’s Jin said that, because China was slow to develop mRNA technology, its pharmaceutical companies lacked the scientific knowhow and specialised machinery to deliver the jab at scale....
...“If the company monetises some of the stakes in its remaining listed subsidiaries, Hitachi Construction Machinery and Hitachi Metals . . . it would have additional liquidity to manage its total debt and...
...That followed a Washington Post report that Chinese supercomputer maker Phytium used chips made by TSMC, which is also an important US military supplier, in machinery to test hypersonic missiles for the...
...In response, China has focused on expanding manufacturing capacity for older chip technologies and reducing its dependence on foreign software and machinery....
...The tweaks to machinery and chemicals needed to achieve this come more easily with the single-minded focus on this manufacturing technology, the large scale and broad range of applications that TSMC has...
...Other businesses — which span machinery, food and retail — have also suffered. Local consumption in Japan fell nine consecutive months to the end of June....
...A co-investor in another Greybull deal said: “They don’t have financial power when they’re proved wrong. Circumstances change. That’s why you get into big trouble.”...
...Travel bans prevented Ocme, the Italian machinery provider, from sending a team of technicians to Mexico City to carry out the work....
...As Japan enters another recession its companies, hit by plunging exports — from pharmaceutical to machinery — have turned to coronavirus treatments and vaccines to deliver growth....
...The group’s fortunes are also affected by how fast the economy recovers in China, where it has investments in coal-fired power plants, industrial machinery, cars and shipping businesses....
...Since such machinery is very expensive, industry experts believe those changes would spell an end to supplies to Huawei altogether....
...The Suzuki car will be made using the machinery and equipment already installed in the factory, so requires no additional spending, the company said on Wednesday....
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