CATL opens 8,000-square-meter battery service hub in Oslo
The 8,000-square-meter Oslo facility cuts pack repair times to 48 hours and establishes full-lifecycle battery diagnostics across…
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JSR completes South Korea EUV photoresist plant in Cheongju
The Japanese supplier established the industry's first commercial finishing base for tin-based metal oxide resists to support…
BYD accelerates megawatt charging rollout for heavy electric trucks
The Chinese manufacturer is pairing 20-minute Megawatt Charging System hardware with its 44-ton electric tractor to target…
Tata Electronics readies Assam chip plant with non-China network
The $3.2 billion Jagiroad OSAT facility enters pilot testing ahead of a December launch, lining up nine non-China vendors to…
Panasonic develops humanoid robot batteries at Osaka lab
The Japanese electronics group is directing cylindrical cell research and factory AI toward bipedal machines, while confirming no…
Japan Display sells Mobara fab to Shinko for chip packaging
The transaction yields an estimated 51.4 billion yen extraordinary gain for the display maker as Shinko converts the site into an…
TSMC weighs Texas foundry campus to expand US chip capacity
Deliberations over an additional manufacturing site follow $265 billion committed to Arizona, as North American customers…
Samsung prioritizes factory reliability in robot roadmap
The electronics maker targets a 99.99% task success rate across more than 100 manufacturing plants, deferring general humanoid…
Evolution Metals scales Korea magnet capacity to 10,000 tons
The Miami-based producer is racing to install 13 Japanese sintering machines by November ahead of a strict Pentagon ban on…
EcoPro replaces affiliate CEOs to defend margins in EV slump
The South Korean cathode producer named new leadership for its parent firm and core manufacturing units to curb capital spending…
CK Solution wins SK hynix cleanroom deal, targeting 500B won
A $110 million contract for SK hynix's Indiana packaging fab lifts the cleanroom engineering specialist's disclosed 2026 bookings…
SFA targets 95% unmanned logistics as chip gear sales double
The South Korean automation supplier will deploy humanoid robots with Rainbow Robotics to reach 95% unmanned factory logistics by…
LG Energy Solution readies Mercedes cylindrical cell rollout in Poland
The battery maker has committed 157.5 gigawatt-hours of large-format cylindrical capacity to the German automaker across North…
TSMC Dismisses Terafab Rumors as Texas Factory Talks Surface
While TSMC dismissed market talk of joining Elon Musk's 1-terawatt AI compute initiative, Intel remains the sole confirmed…
LG Electronics adds chiller plants in US and Korea for AI cooling
A 150 billion won investment in Virginia and domestic sites targets thermal bottlenecks as data center power requirements climb…
CATL expands Hungary battery workforce for local EV supply
Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Limited is adding staff at its €7.34 billion Debrecen site after starting trial cell…
Nexchip injects $128M into Anhui Jingmei to secure photomask supplyMembers
The transaction transfers tooling subsidiary Hefei Jingwei to Anhui Jingmei as part of a 2.2 billion yuan expansion, lifting the…
China Merchants Energy Shipping seals $2.8B Simandou VLOC transport contract
The 25-year freight commitment for Guinea iron ore deploys six newbuild carriers to anchor Chinese sovereign bulk logistics from…
CATL buys 20,000 tons of cathode copper in $320 million pact
A Hong Kong unit will prepay $100 million in December to related trader An Sheng Mining, capping purchases at $150 million in…
SK hynix Evaluates Solidigm US IPO Amid Governance Scrutiny
Reports of a potential $150 billion U.S. listing for the enterprise SSD subsidiary highlight booming AI storage demand while…
CATL Licenses Battery Pack Tech to Egypt's BME in Cairo Deal
The Chinese cellmaker agreed to license commercial electric vehicle pack assembly and supply cells to a $39 million facility…
SK hynix resumes DRAM packaging outsourcing to vendor Winpac
The memory maker is allocating DDR4 and DDR5 flip-chip assembly to the domestic OSAT provider, shifting legacy backend operations…
SK On assumes $1.5 billion debt from US battery subsidiary
The transaction transfers 2.028 trillion won in dollar bonds from SK Battery America to the Seoul parent, representing 14.05% of…
HD Hyundai deploys physical AI in Ulsan shipyard automation
The shipbuilder joined South Korea's national physical AI alliance and backed sensor startup AIDIN Robotics to automate heavy…