Hints and tips:
Related Special Reports
...The South Korean companies have been storing used machines in warehouses instead of putting them on the secondary market, three traders of second-hand chipmaking tools told the Financial Times....
...The US has also been working with the Netherlands and Japan to block China’s access to the latest chip tools, such as machines from the Dutch maker ASML....
...These qualities make CNC machine tools particularly valuable for defence manufacturing.”...
...providing the tools to make leading-edge semiconductors....
...., March 18, 2024 — The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced settled charges against two investment advisers, Delphia (USA) Inc. and Global Predictions Inc., for making false and misleading...
...In the past, machines reallocated workers from the unpleasant drudgery of agriculture, mining and manufacturing and created more rewarding jobs in management and services....
...Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co and Foxconn are not the only Taiwanese tech companies feeling compelled to expand abroad....
...China’s president has forged a close partnership with Putin, with Beijing buying Russian oil and Chinese companies selling billions of dollars of goods ranging from cars to machine tools....
...Maga Inc, a pro-Trump super Pac, has booked just $6.5mn....
...The person added the South Korean government would be reluctant to introduce the curbs, which would affect smaller producers of tools and components....
...Those rumours intensified after it granted Intel $8.5bn to beef up chip manufacturing in the country....
...The DeepMind team identified novel materials by using machine learning to first generate candidate structures and then gauge their likely stability....
...UberCheats was an algorithm-auditing tool....
...We will not hesitate to use the new tools provided to take decisive, and surgical, action against institutions that facilitate the supply of Russia’s war machine....
...On the manufacturing floor, only real shoes will do....
...(Ethan Wu) One good read More on China’s pivot to manufacturing....
...Malaysia became a well-oiled machine in the packaging assembly and testing of chips, until recently considered a fairly low-end, labour intensive but necessary part of the semiconductor manufacturing supply...
...Moreover, to produce Huawei’s chips, SMIC has used DUV lithography machines rather than more advanced EUV tools, which it is barred from buying....
...Hacking Inc....
...Shanghai Micro Electronics Equipment is China’s only producer of lithography machines used in semiconductor manufacturing. It currently makes machines capable of mass-producing 90 nanometre chips....
...Meta will launch its new tool called Llama 3 in the next few weeks, and OpenAI says its ChatGPT-5 is coming soon....
...This saves time, labour, cost and factory space, replacing multiple robots that weld car parts together with a single machine....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on February 12. ©2024 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...She accepts that the high cost of labour deters many consumers from seeking repairs for goods such as washing machines that require time-consuming visits to the home....
...The tools category in the customs data consists of equipment such as lithography and etching machines for chip production but does not include components and materials such as wafers....
International Edition