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| Boeing preparing St. Louis plant for renew government order of lagacy F-15 |
4/24/2019 |
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The Chicago-based company began ramping up its F-15 production line near St. Louis after the Air Force submitted a nearly $8 billion budget request last month that included eight F-15s next year and 72 in the following four years. The request came as a surprise to many since the U.S. military has moved toward stealth fighters, such as Lockheed Martin's F-35, in recent years.
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| GlobalFoundries to transfer East Fishkill fab to ON Semiconductor |
4/23/2019 |
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Less than four years after GlobalFoundries assumed ownership of IBM’s East Fishkill plant, ON Semiconductor, a technology company that supplies semiconductor products, is purchasing the East Fishkill site in a $430 million deal that comes with a $720 million investment into the site over the next 10 years.
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| Federal judge halted Trump's plan to renew coal mining |
4/23/2019 |
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U.S. District Judge Brian Morris in Montana said Interior Department officials had wrongly avoided an environmental review of their action by describing it "as a mere policy shift." In so doing, officials ignored the environmental effects of selling huge volumes of coal from public lands, the judge said.
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| Chinese car buyers are attracted to new generation of Electric SUVs |
4/23/2019 |
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Two of China's biggest state-owned automakers unveiled models they said can travel 600 kilometers (370 miles) on one charge, or nearly double the range of global competitors. If that can be achieved, it would raise the standard for an industry trying to compete with gasoline models by defusing "range anxiety" or fear of being stranded with a dead battery.
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| U.S. will not renew sanction waivers to countries importing oil from Iran |
4/23/2019 |
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Mike Pompeo plans to announce that the administration will not renew sanctions waivers for the five countries when they expire on May 2, three U.S. officials said. It was not immediately clear if any of the five would be given additional time to wind down their purchases or if they would be subject to U.S. sanctions on May 3 if they do not immediately halt imports of Iranian oil.
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| Technology worker shortage hits Europe |
4/22/2019 |
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A shortage of skilled workers is the industry’s top business concern, according to IPC President and CEO John Mitchell. More than two-thirds of IPC companies indicate that a lack of skilled workers is constraining their ability to grow.
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| Semiconductor equipment sales expected to retreat |
4/19/2019 |
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After consecutive record-sales years in 2017 and 2018, SEMI expects the equipment market to come back to earth in 2019 as the end of the memory chip boom puts a damper on new equipment purchases. SEMI forecasts that chip equipment sales will decrease about 14% this year.
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| Qualcomm to set up 5G engineering test center |
4/18/2019 |
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KYEC will rent its existing clean-room site to Qualcomm to house the planned engineering test center and will offer related manpower and R&D resources, while Qualcomm will provide most of high-end testing facilities.
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| The head of Foxconn Technology to run for president of Taiwan |
4/17/2019 |
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Terry Gou said he would make a decision "in a day or two" on a possible presidential bid, according to Taiwan's official Central News Agency. He said that if he decided to run, he would take part in the opposition Nationalist Party primary rather than mount an independent bid.
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| Samsung's EUV setup ready for 5nm production |
4/17/2019 |
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The Korean giant aims to steal some thunder from larger rival TSMC, which is scheduled to give an update on its work on a 5nm node next week. The two are racing to capture a lucrative but shrinking market for leading-edge process technology at a time when it’s becoming more complex and costly to make chips smaller and fasterT
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| Apple Qualcomm settles |
4/17/2019 |
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Apple and Qualcomm announced they have dropped all litigation in a multi-billion-dollar patent licensing dispute that has dragged on for more than two years across courts in China, Germany and the U.S..
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