Manufacturing

Politicos: 'There is a good strong case for government intervention' on JLR cyberattack

Covid-style financial support? Nothing to confirm yet, say MPs

Cyber-crime24 Sep 2025 | 23

Workers fear for their jobs as JLR's latest shutdown extended

With no idea when engines restart, families gear down on spending ahead of Christmas

Cyber-crime23 Sep 2025 | 31

JLR stuck in neutral as losses skyrocket amid cyberattack cleanup

Latest extension to factory closures takes incident response into fourth week

Cyber-crime16 Sep 2025 | 59

Intel shuffles executive deckchairs, tosses 30-year veteran chief overboard

Michelle Johnston Holthaus' tenure as Intel Products CEO lasted just ten months

Systems08 Sep 2025 | 11

Absolutely fabless: Trump derails TSMC's China chip-building effort

World's largest foundry operator joins Samsung and SK Hynix, which recently lost their validated end-user status

Systems03 Sep 2025 | 16

Foundry competition heats up as Japan’s Rapidus says 2nm chip tech on track for 2027

That's just... checks notes... two years behind everyone else

Systems18 Jul 2025 | 8

TSMC aims to make 30% of high-end chips in US with Arizona fab build out

Shovels in the dirt at Fab 3 as Fab 2’s 3nm ramp charges in several quarters early

On-Prem17 Jul 2025 | 21

Intel's leaders have stopped pretending – and it's about time

Comment Not even in the top 10, CEO Lip-Bu Tan reportedly tells employees

CxO10 Jul 2025 | 75

Space manufacturing company Varda gets clearance to launch more uncrewed capsules

UPDATED Startup has already shown how to make drugs in space

Science19 Jun 2025 | 2

GlobalFoundries commits $3B more to US fabs in Trump tariff flex

Silicon photonics and gallium nitride a major focus

Systems04 Jun 2025 | 11

Trump can bluster and bluff all he wants, but iPhone manufacturing isn't coming to the US

He'll need to be way more aggressive than a 25% tariff, say analysts, and even then it would take years

Public Sector27 May 2025 | 45

Foxconn chairman predicts AI will end manufacturers' search for cheap labor

Computex Urges world leaders to pay attention because he’s already building factories in which GenAI is acing scutwork

AI + ML20 May 2025 | 14

Intel tweaks its 18A process with variants tailored to mass-market chips, big AI brains

Direct Connect If Lip Bu Tan can't sell you his LLM accelerator, he's more than willing to build yours

On-Prem30 Apr 2025 | 1

Avnet accuses Arm chip slinger Ampere of screwing it over on server deal

Sales backstop deal? More like ... Sales? Back, stop! Deal!

Systems14 Apr 2025 | 2

PIRG's 'Electronic Waste Graveyard' lists 100+ gadgets dumped after support vanished

Consumer campaign group says 'we need lifetime transparency for tech

Personal Tech11 Apr 2025 | 46

Intel wins something: Judge tosses out shareholder lawsuit over foundry losses

If you find Chipzilla's financial figures hard to parse, don't worry, it stumped these folks, too

On-Prem06 Mar 2025 | 1

Intel slows its roll on $28B Ohio fab expansion, pushing production to 2030s

x86 giant still expects to ramp 18A process tech this year

On-Prem28 Feb 2025 | 8

DARPA skips the lab, will head to orbit to test space manufacturing tech

Previous NOM4D experiments have gone so well, says project leader, that it's time to get real

Science12 Feb 2025 | 5

Intel sinks $19B into the red, kills Falcon Shores GPUs, delays Clearwater Forest Xeons

Imagine burning through $72B in one year. Did it make Sam Altman the CEO already?

On-Prem31 Jan 2025 | 52

Anduril picks Ohio for 5 million square foot autonomous weapon factory

The hyperscale plant is designed to produce tens of thousands of AVs a year

Offbeat16 Jan 2025 | 26

Intel execs discuss the possibility of spinning off foundry

'Does it ever fully separate? I think that's an open question for another day,' interim co-CEO says

Systems13 Dec 2024 | 11

Cost of Gelsinger's ambition proves too much for Intel

Comment At least he'll have company as he joins 15K colleagues headed for the door

Systems02 Dec 2024 | 46

Intel losses hit $16.6B in Q3 and Wall Street is … loving it?

Improving revenue outlook has Chipzilla's shares back on a positive trajectory – for the moment anyway.

On-Prem01 Nov 2024 | 24

Uncle Sam lays out plans for $825M EUV R&D site in New York

Given the cost of EUV litho machines, the Netherlands' ASML might be the real winner here

Systems31 Oct 2024 | 22

Ex-Intel board members make an ill-conceived case for spinning off Foundry

Comment Save America’s most important manufacturer? More like save our portfolio and let Uncle Sam pick up the pieces

Systems23 Oct 2024 | 34

Uncle Sam extends 25% CHIPS Act tax credit to wafer, solar panel manufacturing

Meanwhile, Infinera snags up to $93M of the dwindling subsidies

Public Sector22 Oct 2024 |

Not just AI datacenters needing own power: Taiwanese server-maker Quanta has bought microgrids

California utilities couldn't deliver for hyperscalers' favorite hardware slinger

Systems04 Oct 2024 | 5

Fire halts production at Indian iPhone factory

Tata was about to double the workforce at the plant

Personal Tech01 Oct 2024 | 4

Vietnam finds a formula – C = SET + 1 – to grow its semiconductor industry to $100bn

It only adds up to being as big as Nvidia today, in 2050

Public Sector24 Sep 2024 | 1

Intel has officially entered the grin and bear it phase of its recovery

Comment Gelsinger sold the world on his foundry vision. Walking away won't be easy

Systems22 Sep 2024 | 29

Intel frees its Foundry biz – and that's just one of many major shake-ups today

Pauses European fabs, scores secret US gig, teams up with Amazon, re-orgs its innards, and more!

On-Prem17 Sep 2024 | 30

South Korean lithium battery plant blaze kills at least 23

National Fire Agency responds with inspection of 213 batt-related workplaces

On-Prem25 Jun 2024 | 16

DARPA awards in-orbit manufacturing contract to Momentus

In the not too distant future agency wants to found factories in the sky

Science02 Jun 2024 | 3

Malaysia stakes claim to become semiconductor superpower by luring $100B investment from … somewhere

Suggests itself as the place to do high-end manufacturing without upsetting anyone

Public Sector30 May 2024 | 3

Apple on track for quarter of all iPhones to be made in India by 2028

IT minister boasts of tech titan building network of local vendors

Personal Tech16 May 2024 | 21

From chips to cloud, tech titans continue to splash cash across APAC

Intel and pals automate manufacturing in Japan while AWS pledges billions to Singapore

PaaS + IaaS09 May 2024 | 1

Miles of optical fiber crafted aboard ISS marks manufacturing first

ZBLAN fibers made in space hopefully don't crystallize and are far less brittle, opening the path to faster photonics

Networks23 Apr 2024 | 20

Intel's effort to build a foundry biz is costing far more – and taking longer – than expected

Analysis If you wanna make money you've gotta spend money. And against Samsung it's gonna cost a lot

On-Prem16 Apr 2024 | 13

Vigorous US lobbying reportedly reversed India PC import license scheme

Washington was most displeased and New Delhi knew it made a mistake

Personal Tech22 Mar 2024 | 5

Biden's State of the Union included a battle cry against AI mimicry

Lots of pats on the back for the CHIPS Act too

AI + ML09 Mar 2024 | 16

Intel inches closer to $3.5B contract to build secret fabs for Uncle Sam

They can't have x86 goliath building military chips out in the open now can they?

Systems07 Mar 2024 | 3

Belgian ale legend Duvel's brewery borked as ransomware halts production

Biz reassures quaffers it has enough beer, expects quick recovery before weekend

Cyber-crime07 Mar 2024 | 40

Chip lobby group SEMI to EU: Export restrictions should only be used in self-defense

Please don't scare away foreign investors - who do you think pays for this stuff?

Public Sector06 Mar 2024 | 5

Cybercrims: When we hit IT, they sometimes pay, but when we hit OT... jackpot

Analysis Or so says opsec firm, which confirms 70% of all industrial org ransomware in 2023 targeted manufacturers

Cyber-crime27 Feb 2024 | 19

Gelsinger splits Intel in two to advance foundry vision

FDC Separation of church and state? More like separation of Product and Foundry

Systems22 Feb 2024 | 13

India won't become a semiconductor superpower anytime soon, says think tank

$10 billion subsidies predicted to deliver just five modest fabs by 2029

Systems16 Feb 2024 | 3

India again backs down on its controversial PC import restrictions

Desktops escape regulations, laptops and servers don't, no reasons explained

Legal16 Jan 2024 | 6

White House hopes to power up American battery factories with $3.5B fund

Now that's the kind of current affairs we're into

Public Sector16 Nov 2023 | 18

Banned US chipmaking equipment still ending up in China, says report

Plus: US execs line up to dine with President Xi

Systems15 Nov 2023 | 6

Vietnam becomes latest nation to pitch itself as a chip biz hub

50,000-strong alt.China talent pool promised, with Google, Samsung, SpaceX, and Intel interested

On-Prem31 Oct 2023 |

Bezos' engineers dream of Blue Ring space platform in orbit by 2025

A little optimistic, given Blue Origin can't even deliver it themselves yet

Science17 Oct 2023 | 19

3D printer purchases could require background checks under proposed law

Bill in New York aims to stop spread of ghost guns, but fails to address existing kit or private sales

Legal17 Oct 2023 | 38

Japan's PM hints at semiconductor subsidies as part of wider growth plan

Updated Digital transformation and startups at center of stimulus package

Public Sector26 Sep 2023 | 1

China to set standards for the metaverse because it's not sure what one is

Beijing reckons they could be handy for manufacturing, but for now they're just a mess

Software19 Sep 2023 | 5

After failed takeover, Intel and Tower Semi aren't giving up on the relationship

Meanwhile, Arm suffers IPO financial muscle loss with low valuation

On-Prem05 Sep 2023 | 1

The semiconductor biz is sick, but demand for SiC chips that improve EVs is accelerating

Onsemi CEO says demand for silicon carbide surged – as investors pile in

Personal Tech01 Aug 2023 | 2