Manufacturing

Business 4 min Schneider Electric Will Borrow Heavily to Buy Design Software Maker PTC for $22.6 Billion The French energy-equipment group is paying US$205 a share in cash, funded largely by €16 billion to €17 billi... EV Eva Chin 8 Oct ASEAN Tech 4 min Infineon Opened a Chip Plant in Thailand. The 5,000 Jobs Depend on Four More Buildings Thai officials cite US$1.4 billion and more than 5,000 jobs. Infineon commits to one module with about 1,000 s... DA Daniel Koh 5 Oct ASEAN Tech 4 min Singapore's Newest Chip Fab Opened in Record Time. Volume Production Starts in 2027. VSMC, owned by Vanguard and NXP, opened its Tampines plant after 22 months of construction. It is in trial pro... SA Sarah Chew 30 Sep Science 6 min SpaceX Is Casting Turbine Blades Because Almost Nobody Else Can A gas turbine is mostly components any industrial economy can build. One part is not, and the queue for it has... NA Nadia Rahim 31 Aug Sustainability 8 min Tesla Installed About 3,000 Solar Roofs In Seven Years, And Has Now Stopped At its peak the company was completing 21 to 32 installations a week, more than 95 per cent short of the origi... NA Nadia Rahim 23 Aug Business 8 min Tesla and SpaceX Committed $16.8bn to a Chip Fab. The Rest Is Description. Phase one is a real number with a decision behind it. The 100 million square feet, the $119 billion and the te... EV Eva Chin 11 Aug Sustainability 7 min The Pentagon Has Committed More to This Battery Company Than Every Investor Combined A conditional commitment of up to $1.4 billion from the Office of Strategic Capital roughly matches everything... NA Nadia Rahim 11 Aug Business 7 min Sony and TSMC Are Reported to Be Spending ¥1 Trillion on Sensors. The Reason Is Robots. A reported ¥1 trillion joint venture in Kumamoto, 60% Sony and 40% TSMC, producing next-generation image senso... EV Eva Chin 11 Aug Business 5 min The FCC Barred Imported Humanoid Robots on Security Grounds. Beijing Says It Will Retaliate The restriction covers bipedal and quadruped machines and applies to new device models rather than units alrea... EV Eva Chin 3 Aug Cybersecurity 4 min ASEAN Cyberattacks Doubled in 2024 — Manufacturing, Government and Finance Were the Targets Cyberattacks in ASEAN doubled in 2024 vs 2023, with 67% of all incidents concentrated in a single year. Here i... CY Cyber Team 6 May ASEAN Tech 5 min Vietnam Emerges as ASEAN's New Tech Manufacturing Hub as China+1 Strategies Mature Vietnam is consolidating its position as ASEAN's leading tech manufacturing hub as China+1 strategies mature.... RE RECATOOLS Editorial 5 May