Absolics, a subsidiary of SKC, broke ground in November on a planned $600 million investment in Covington, Ga., for a new manufacturing facility that will supply advanced materials to the US semiconductor industry.

During the CES 2023 show, electric vehicles and robotic tractors take center stage.

China's abrupt reversal of its Covid Zero policy pushed economic activity - its service sector in particular - to the slowest pace since February 2020, as the virus swept through major cities and prompted people to stay home and businesses to shut.

A third of the global economy will be in recession this year, the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned.

ByteDance, the Chinese parent company of video app TikTok, has laid off hundreds of employees across multiple departments at the end of 2022 as part of a cost-cutting measure, the South China Morning Post reported on Tuesday.

The company's move is in sharp contrast to those of its rivals such as TSMC, Intel, Micron Technology, and SK Hynix, which all declared a reduction of their investments.

South Korea's LG Group, whose businesses span consumer electronics companies to an electric vehicle battery maker, would make a good partner for Apple as the US tech giant endeavors to make a clean, smart car of its own, an analyst at KB Securities wrote in a note Friday.

China's largest chip maker SMIC is ramping up production of a decade-old chip technology, key to many industries' supply chains, setting off alarm bells in the United States and prompting some lawmakers to try to stop them.

VinFast, an electric carmaker backed by Vietnam's richest man, has received permission to sell EVs in the U.S. ahead of its planned initial public offering.

PepsiCo plans to roll out 100 heavy-duty Tesla Semis in 2023, when it will start using the electric trucks to make deliveries to customers like Walmart and Kroger, the soda maker's top fleet official told Reuters on Friday.

Redwood Materials is the latest company to set up shop in South Carolina's growing community of electric vehicle and battery manufacturers, the Carson City, Nevada-based firm said on Wednesday. Redwood said it will build a $3.5 billion battery materials campus in Ridgefield, about 30 miles (48.28 km) northwest of Charleston, that will recycle, refine and remanufacture cathode and anode materials such as nickel, cobalt, lithium and copper.

Sony Group is considering building a new factory to make smartphone image sensors in the Kumamoto prefecture of Japan and sourcing chips from TSMC's planned chip plant in the area.

According to a single report from the Kommersant, the Chinese government has decided to stop the supply of locally manufactured Loongson chips to Russia.

Chinese tech giant Alibaba Group cannot buy some of the most advanced chip designs after the SoftBank-owned British chip tech firm Arm determined that US and Britain would not approve licenses to export technology to China, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday.

The US carmaker announced the shift at Halewood from making gearboxes for petrol and diesel cars to producing the drive units, which include electric motors and power electronics, in October last year. The additional investment means Ford will spend £380m on upgrading Halewood and the van design centre in Dunton, Essex, for electric vehicles (EVs).

China filed a dispute with the World Trade Organization trying to overturn US-imposed export controls, which aim to limit the Asian nation's ability to develop a domestic semiconductor industry and equip its military.

IBM and Rapidus, a newly formed chip maker backed by the Japanese government, on Tuesday announced a partnership that aims to manufacture the world's most advanced chips in Japan by the second half of the decade.

Microsoft is to take a 4% equity stake in London Stock Exchange Group as part of a 10-year commercial deal to migrate the exchange operator's data platform into the cloud, the British company said on Monday.

SK On, a leading electric vehicle (EV) battery manufacturer, announced that its joint venture (JV) with American auto giant Ford Motor Company held a groundbreaking ceremony for an EV battery manufacturing mega campus in the United States as it embarks on steps to expand leadership in the global EV market.

The Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment (Menko Marves) Luhut Binsar Panjaitan revealed that the government plans to subsidize the purchase of electric vehicles next year. This is done in order to encourage people's purchasing power to own cars and electric motorbikes. According to Luhut, currently the government is finalizing a subsidy scheme of IDR 6.5 million per purchase of an electric motorbike. (Translated by Google)

Vietnam's electric-vehicle maker VinFast said on Tuesday it has filed for an initial public offering (IPO) in the United States to list on the Nasdaq under ticker symbol "VFS" to fund its expansion with a planned plant in North Carolina.

"As part of a recent all-employee meeting, we shared the cost saving actions we are taking across our business in response to the current macroeconomic environment including reducing corporate and manufacturing overhead costs as well as selectively reducing our workforce by less than 800 employees globally before the end of the year," said Julie Moynehan, a spokesperson for GF.

Global economic turbulence has hit technology companies this year, leading to slowing revenue growth and widespread layoffs, even as some segments of enterprise spending on IT seem to be holding steady.

During Saturday night's protest in Shanghai - China's biggest city and a global financial hub in the east of the country - people were heard openly shouting slogans such as "Xi Jinping, step down" and "Communist party, step down."

The Biden administration has banned approvals of new telecommunications equipment from China's Huawei Technologies and ZTE because they pose "an unacceptable risk" to US national security.

A weak memory market and US sanctions on China semiconductor producers are driving factors behind the expected 19% drop in semiconductor capital spending in 2023.

Hikvision, a leading Chinese surveillance company, has denied suggestions that it poses a threat to Britain's national security after the UK government banned the use of its camera systems at "sensitive" sites.

In a recent interview with the Barron's Tech newsletter, the Tufts history professor argued that American policy makers are still underestimating the significant risks of a possible disastrous outcome over Taiwan.

CEO Pat Gelsinger told employees that Thakur will continue lead Intel's foundry unit through the first quarter of 2023 to ensure 'a smooth transition.'

Chinese authorities are recruiting workers from villages and moving them to Foxconn's iPhone assembly lines after the Apple partner suffered a mass exodus.

Including Hong Kong and Macao, China had 59 papers accepted by the ISSCC.

Samsung Electronics said the global technology industry is in search of alternative sources for advanced semiconductors given rising political risks.

Amazon.com is planning to lay off around 10,000 employees in corporate and technology roles beginning this week, a person familiar with the matter said on Monday, in what would amount to its biggest such reduction to date.

Embattled cryptocurrency exchange FTX has filed for bankruptcy in the US, seeking court protection as it looks for a way to return money to users.

The growth is expected to temper in 2023 due to challenging macroeconomic conditions but is forecast to rebound in the years that follow on strong demand for semiconductors used in data center, automotive and industrial applications.

"I think that Elon Musk's cooperation and or technical relationships with other countries is worthy of being looked at," Biden told reporters Wednesday while speaking about the midterm election results.

Tech leaders who spent years eagerly adding to their staffs are now lining up to deliver a different message: Sorry, we grew too fast.

Apple has announced it will invest $450 million from its Advanced Manufacturing Fund to develop the infrastructure that allows off-grid backpackers to call for help when outside mobile coverage.

Toshiba, which is exploring options for a buyout, cut its profit forecast for the year ending March to 125 billion yen from 170 billion yen.

Meta Platforms is planning to begin large-scale layoffs this week, according to people familiar with the matter, in what could be the largest round in a recent spate of tech job cuts after the industry's rapid growth during the pandemic.