The Taiwanese government granted chip giant Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) permission to start using a more advanced chip technology at a factory in Shanghai, the first time the government has allowed a Taiwanese company to do so.
In an office building near Portland, Oregon, in a room next to a massive bank of cubicles, hums one of a group of small Intel data centers known collectively as the Cloud Builders Factory.
Intel on Friday announced the opening of a massive US$1 billion chip testing and assembly facility in Vietnam, the biggest such facility for Intel anywhere in the world.
Students & Scholars Against Corporate Misbehavior (SACOM) has objected to the arrest earlier this month of about 319 workers of Foxconn International Holdings at a factory in Chennai, south India. The workers were striking for a wage increase among other demands.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) plans to break ground on its first solar cell factory before the end of this year, a company representative said Wednesday.
Foxconn, the Taiwanese assembler of iPhones and other gadgets for many major electronics companies, has signed an agreement to turn over management of dorms used to house workers at massive factory campuses in Shenzhen, China, to two Chinese firms, it said Sunday.
GlobalFoundries on Tuesday followed several other chip makers in announcing new plans to expand factory spending amid a global chip industry boom. GlobalFoundries will spend an additional US$3 billion, it said.
Foxconn Technology Group suffered its 12th suicide attempt so far this year late Wednesday night, on the heels of a media tour to the company's main factory in China and pledges by customers Apple, Dell and Hewlett-Packard to investigate the issue.
The sale of advanced chip factory equipment at the final plant run by bankrupt DRAM maker Qimonda AG has started on the Web site of auctioneer GoIndustry DoveBid Group.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) broke ground Friday on the third and final phase of its "Fab 15" chip factory, with the newest phase geared to make power-efficient and high-performance microprocessors using 20-nanometer production technology.
Employees at Nokia's mobile handset manufacturing plant in Chennai are protesting and disrupting work, after the company suspended some staff pending an inquiry, the company said on Thursday.
A robotic forklift picks up a sheet of glass thinner than a credit card and as big as two table-tennis tables, and effortlessly swings it 90 degrees before gently placing it into an oven where it will bake at 200 degrees Celsius. It's a graceful and finely engineered process and one of several that takes place minute after minute, hour after hour, day after day in Sharp's LCD factory in Sakai, western Japan.
Cryptic comments by Sony's CEO have sparked rumors that iPhone 5 will upgrade to an 8-megapixel camera from Sony, but also might be delayed due to earthquake damage at the Sony factory that makes the components.
The story of this Sony factory, which took the full brunt of a powerful tsunami that washed through a year ago, reflects that of much of Japan's northeastern coast - abrupt tragedy, battled with ingenuity and stoic resolve, and now grim economic reality.
Just under two years after the start of construction, Sharp is ready to begin production at a cutting-edge LCD plant in Japan next month, it said on Thursday. The factory, in Sakai City in western Japan, is the world's most advanced LCD manufacturing base and it should help Sharp reduce the cost of making big-screen LCDs.
A watchdog group has slammed Apple and its supplier Foxconn for failing to take corrective action on the plight of factory workers in China, saying the companies continue to abuse employees while providing poor working conditions.
Boston-Power Inc. CEO Christina Lampe-Onnerud is ready to build a laptop battery factory in China. The plans are already drawn. But if her firm can get several hundred million dollars out of the recently approved US$787 billion federal stimulus bill, she will take those plans and instead build the factory somewhere in the U.S.
In the early days of automobile manufacturing, some cars coming off the factory line just weren't up to snuff-but were sold to consumers anyway. They simply didn't perform as well as others or more easily broke down. Lights flickered and hinges squeaked. They were called lemons.
LG Electronics plans to reorganize its factories in Mexico, closing one LCD TV factory and ending mobile phone production in the nation, the company said late Monday.
Apple supplier Foxlink, a maker of iPhone cable connectors, disputed claims on Friday that a company worker committed suicide after being denied a leave of absence, instead suggesting that drug use may have played a role in the worker's death.
Electronics manufacturer Foxconn Technology Group said on Tuesday that students as young as 14, below the legal working age, were found employed at a company factory in China that has been said to make products for Japanese gaming firm Nintendo.
Thousands of workers went on strike at a Foxconn factory in China on Friday, bringing some iPhone 5 production lines to a halt, a labor rights group said.
Nintendo said on Thursday the company was investigating how underage interns were employed at a Foxconn factory in China, which assembles products for the Japanese gaming company.