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ProLogium to build €5.2B gigafactory for solid-state batteries in France

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Taiwan-based ProLogium has chosen France as the location for its first large-scale solid-state battery manufacturing facility outside of Taiwan. From recovery to reuse, the entire recycling process will help build up a sustainable circular economy for the local battery industry. ProLogium will invest a total of €5.2

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Pegatron Will Build A Tesla Parts Plant In Texas

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Pegatron, a company based out of Taiwan, will build a plant in El Paso, Texas, that will provide components for Tesla, Reuters reports. Pegatron officials said that the details of its overseas plant investments are still in the planning stages. Back in November, the company said it would set up a factory in the U.S. […].

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TSMC to Build Chip Fab in Japan

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After a week of media rumor, leaks and speculation, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. TSMC), the world's largest contract chip manufacturer, announced in an online earnings briefing Thursday that it would build a semiconductor plant in Japan. TSMC gains fundamental science knowledge to help it build more advanced chips.

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U.S. Universities Are Building a New Semiconductor Workforce

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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing C o. TSMC), which was already building a $12 billion fab in Arizona , upped the investment to $40 billion with a second plant. economy, there’s a potential problem: Where will the industry find the qualified workforce needed to run these plants and design the chips they’ll make?

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India Injects $15 Billion Into Semiconductors

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“On one end India has a large and growing domestic demand and on the other end global customers are looking at India for supply chain resilience,” Frank Hong, chairman of Taiwan-based foundry Powerchip Semiconductor (PSMC) , a partner in the new fab, said in a press release. Tata Electronics will build a $3.25

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TSMC R&D Chief: There’s Light at the End of the Chip Shortage

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Yuh-Jier Mii started on the ground floor of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Growing up in Taiwan, the environment encouraged people to become scientists or engineers.”. Mii earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University , and his master’s and Ph.D.,

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Why Silicon Valley Cares About Silicon Again

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That's when the battle with Japan put Silicon Valley on the map as a crucial part of the American economy" But then times changed, thanks to the increasing importance of software. Eighty percent of the world's chips are made in Taiwan, and China has found the choke point of the world economy—those fabs.

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