Elon Musk is betting that the next phase of his sprawling technology empire will require a building on a scale that has never existed before. SpaceX and Tesla are building Terafab, a 100-million-square-foot semiconductor manufacturing facility in Grimes County, Texas, more than five times the size of the world’s largest building. “Terafab Texas will be the
In both of his administrations, President Donald Trump has wielded tariffs as a means of discouraging trade relationships with China, as well as incentivizing American reshoring, but this strategy may be backfiring. As Trump’s import tax plan continues to fluctuate, some U.S. companies who initially moved away from China are now reinvesting in suppliers there.
India on Wednesday unveiled billions of dollars in new incentives for smartphone manufacturing and an expanded semiconductor push, seeking to build on its success in assembling Apple’s iPhones and shift more of the global electronics supply chain away from China. Called the Mobile Phone Manufacturing Scheme, the ₹625 billion (around $6.5 billion) program will run
India on Thursday approved a manufacturing joint venture between China’s Vivo and local manufacturer Dixon Technologies, a move that could mark the next phase of the country’s smartphone manufacturing boom after Apple helped turn India into a global smartphone production hub. The approval allows Vivo to continue a long-delayed manufacturing partnership first announced in December
The race to produce more chips has begun, and Europe is in it. ASML, the Dutch company that has a near monopoly on manufacturing the machines used to make chips, will soon cease to be an isolated success story. Like its American counterpart, the European Chip Law aims to encourage the semiconductor industry, partly thanks