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...For now, the lithium-ion cells packing the batteries are shipped in from Asia. But that will change when South Korea’s LG Energy opens a new battery plant in Arizona....
...South Korea and Taiwan are home to Samsung and TSMC, companies that dominate semiconductor manufacturing, while Japanese groups play a critical role in the chip supply chain....
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...When packing more transistors ran into problems, they started stacking them on top of each other....
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...But Follmann worries about the fate of Germany’s chemical industry, which eats up roughly a third of the gas consumed by the country’s manufacturing base....
...At Amazon, robots do everything from lifting heavy loads to fast and accurate picking and packing....
...At the same time, we face manufacturing cost challenges due to increasing process complexity at leading node, new investment in mature nodes, expansion of our global manufacturing footprint and rising materials...
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