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...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on April 19 2024. ©2024 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...It is building a facility in Penang, but some US lawmakers already want to restrict American companies from collaborating on RISC-V projects....
...He drives a Tesla model S (with the paint stripped off to reveal the bare metal) and sails an 82ft Mark V special operations craft, a $3mn camouflaged Navy Seal vessel mounted with decommissioned machine...
...Yuzawa said: “Gigacasting is going to reshape the whole underbody supply chain network.”...
...Indonesia is the world’s largest producer of nickel, a crucial ingredient that Korea’s leading EV battery companies need for the multibillion-dollar factories they are building in the US....
...The London Metal Exchange also reported in February that Russian metal was building up in its warehouses, with 41 per cent of primary aluminium stocks and 95 per cent of copper stocks being of Russian origin...
...Billions have gone into building capacity and supply of many parts customised for Tesla. Market expectations are correspondingly high for battery makers....
...As dawn breaks across Canchungo, it casts a soft glow on the red earth and blue-rendered buildings....
...“It’s the product of Apple going in there and building the tech competence.”...
...Tata Steel’s chief executive, T V Narendran, warned that time was running short to make the business sustainable given high energy prices....
...Fibre accounts for between 5 and 20 per cent of the cost of building a terrestrial network....
...Security of supply is a looming problem for the years ahead, as are environmental concerns around the dirty business of digging these metals out of the ground....
...These cleaned and processed metals, minerals and derivatives make their way into products worldwide — and there are no back-up sources.”...
...Metal barriers have been erected around the campus. Workers must take daily Covid tests and have been restricted to the factory floor and their dorms....
...But amid all the EV excitement — and anxiety about the alarmingly limited supply of battery metals — many investors and industrial groups are now looking more closely at hydrogen too....
...A $20bn tech vision India’s metals giant Vedanta is close to finalising the location for a massive tech project that could be worth as much as $20bn and help the country cut its reliance on foreign supply...
...Governments so far have promised to pour more than $100bn into subsidising the building of local chip supply chains....
...It will rise 7ft taller than the Empire State Building....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on August 25 2022. ©2022 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...Wind and sun are free but actually, you need an enormous amount of metals to move to a net-zero world. And so that means mines, and there’s controversy about mines....
...The boss of Siemens, Europe’s largest industrial manufacturer, has likened global supply chains to a “rollercoaster” as prices of materials such as metals and resins whipsaw because of an uneven economic...
...If this wasn’t complex enough, buyers and vendors are clear that input costs are increasing and order backlogs are building up....
...But Tesla does not just bash metal, however elegantly....
...And those refined metals are what we then can sell back into the supply chain to offset the need for a mined material. So fast forward... I don't know if I'm giving you enough time. 10 years?...
...And it would look a lot like a metal cloth fence. And it would be essentially transparent to sunlight....
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