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Tencent buys 5% stake in Tesla for $1.8 billion

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In 2015, Taiwan-based Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd., In January 2016, they formed a joint venture company, Harmony Futeng Internet & Intelligent Electric Vehicle New Energy Company Limited, led by Dr. Carsten Breitfeld, formerly the VP of Engineering and Head of the i8 vehicle program at BMW.

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The Chip Shortage, Giant Chips, and the Future of Moore’s Law

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You also found that the future of Moore's Law depends as much on where you put the wires as on how small the transistors are, among many other things. GlobalFoundries has already inked agreements with both Ford and BMW. The real importance is that IBM's process is another endorsement of nanosheet transistors as the future of silicon.

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For EVs, Semi-Solid-State Batteries Offer a Step Forward

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But China’s investment in the future of batteries won’t likely speed up the timetable for mass production and use in production vehicles. None could isolate anything on the horizon indicating that solid-state technology can escape the engineering and ‘production hell’ that lies ahead.” “To So says Steve W.

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