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Back to news homeBosch to invest another $467 million to boost chipmaking capacity
German technology and parts supplier Robert Bosch GmbH will invest another 400 million euros ($467 million) to expand its chip manufacturing facilities in response to the ongoing semiconductor shortage that […]
US government bans sale of hacking tools to China and Russia
The U.S. Department of Commerce has announced that it will ban the export of hacking tools to authoritarian governments in an effort to curb violations of human rights and other […]
Everything is accelerating in the exponential age
Buckle up, it’s going to be a wild ride. The pace of change over the last few decades is only set to accelerate in the coming years, as improvements in […]
Applied Materials, ASML and Lam Research list over 19,000 jobs in 2021 amid semiconductor crisis, finds GlobalData
The global chip shortage has necessitated semiconductor companies to boost production capacity. Leading data and analytics company GlobalData’s Job Analytics database shows that three NASDAQ-listed wafer fabrication equipment (WFE) manufacturers […]
Top four highlights of Elon Musk’s Tesla AI Day
Elon Musk wants Tesla to be seen as “much more than an electric car company.” On Thursday’s Tesla AI Day, the CEO described Tesla as a company with “deep AI […]
China roundup: Keep down internet upstarts, cultivate hard tech
Hello and welcome back to TechCrunch’s China roundup, a digest of recent events shaping the Chinese tech landscape and what they mean to people in the rest of the world. […]
Bosch opens $1.2 billion chip plant in Germany
Germany technology and parts supplier Robert Bosch opened a €1 billion ($1.2 billion) chip factory in Dresden, Germany on Monday, the single largest investment in the company’s history. The plant, […]