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How and When the Chip Shortage Will End, in 4 Charts

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considered getting into the chip-stimulus game as well. To reduce cost, the industry began moving to 300-mm wafers in 2000, but much of the old 200-mm infrastructure continued and even expanded. Despite the auto industry’s desperation, there’s no great rush to build new 200-mm fabs. In March of 2023, the U.S.

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Why Warren Buffett is investing in electric car company BYD - Apr. 13, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The first buyers will be fleet users, which will build central fast-charging facilities. By about 2000, BYD had become one of the worlds largest manufacturers of cellphone batteries. Wang entered the automobile business in 2003 by buying a Chinese state-owned car company that was all but defunct.

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