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...China, the dominant solar equipment supplier, doubled production capacity last year to more than 1tn watts and now produces nearly three times more panels than global demand, according to the International...
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on January 26. ©2024 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...The one-time smartphone powerhouse is working with top Chinese chipmaker Semiconductor Manufacturing International Company — which is also on the US trade blacklist — to mass-produce mobile chips using the...
...But for a lot of Chinese companies, Chan says, the IRA is an opportunity to start manufacturing products in the US....
...So Leo, do you think Japan Inc, despite all this demographic stuff, has reason to be cautiously optimistic?...
...Over the past decade and a half, Apple has been sending its top product designers and manufacturing design engineers to China, embedding them into suppliers’ facilities for months at a time....
...Top chipmakers such as Yangtze Memory Technologies Co. in Wuhan and Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. facilities in Beijing entered closed-loop management last week....
...Smaller rivals such as United Microelectronics and Semiconductor Manufacturing International Co raised prices several times last year and in some cases actually charge more than TSMC....
...In the sweltering Asia summertime of mid-June, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co urgently dispatched a team to Japan to visit some of the company’s equipment suppliers....
...Companies including Nike and H&M previously faced questions about Xinjiang cotton used in their products....
...Washington has slowed the advance of China’s semiconductor industry by adding the country’s top chipmaker, Semiconductor Manufacturing International Co, and the telecom equipment group Huawei, to a trade...
...However, the country still plays a pivotal role in the manufacturing of semiconductor equipment and materials....
...Manufacturing shortfalls have affected economic growth, while product shortages have sent inflation soaring in many countries....
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...The power management business recently appointed new chief digital and technology officers as it moves from traditional manufacturing of products to servicing smart homes and data centres....
...However, some analysts worry that Korea Inc risks veering back down the value chain into commoditised component production and lower-margin manufacturing....
...This was followed by sanctions on several other big Chinese technology companies, from its top contract chipmaker, Semiconductor Manufacturing International Co, to Hikvision, the world’s biggest surveillance...
...The latter is based on the open-source Risc-V architecture....
...Automation an automatic choiceJapan Inc has found a new purpose for automation: business continuity in the uncertain era of Covid-19....
...“For years, we . . . put all our emphasis on designing and manufacturing the product,” he told Harvard Business Review in 1992....
...That would then restrict the ability of US companies to export products to the plane maker....
...Smaller rival Semiconductor Manufacturing International Co, China’s biggest contract chipmaker, is looking at building similarly advanced chip packaging capacity and has ordered equipment from some of TSMC...
...VnExpress International reported in March....
...Finished products are often assembled outside China, but many parts are dependent on the country, leading to concerns about the future of product supply....
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