Hacker News with Generative AI: Manufacturing

TSMC, Intel and other top chipmakers slow Japan, Malaysia expansions (nikkei.com)
Leading chipmakers and packagers including Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. and Intel have slowed the pace of their expansions in Japan and Malaysia due to lackluster demand for older chips and tariff uncertainties, Nikkei Asia has learned.

Semiconductors, Manufacturing, Japan, Malaysia, Global Economy

36 points by pdyc 4 days ago | 11 comments

TSMC's US builds won't make America great at chips again, says Gelsinger (theregister.com)
Intel ex-CEO Pat Gelsinger has thrown shade on Taiwanese chipmaker TSMC's plans to build fabrication plants in the USA, saying the factories will do nothing to advance American semiconductor leadership.

Semiconductors, Technology, US Economy, Taiwan, Manufacturing

35 points by markus_zhang 5 days ago | 57 comments

Toyota's 'Circular Factory' Idea Could Be a Great Alternative to Junk Yards (thedrive.com)
With one junked car at a time, Toyota looks to reduce, reuse, and recycle its way into another profit stream while keeping trash out of well, actual streams.

Sustainability, Automotive Industry, Recycling, Manufacturing, Business

22 points by zfg 8 days ago | 5 comments

Bambu Lab H2D (bambulab.com)
Rethink Personal Manufacturing

3D Printing, Manufacturing, Hardware

12 points by reimertz 8 days ago | 4 comments

Nearly All Cybertrucks Have Been Recalled Because Tesla Used the Wrong Glue (wired.com)
Tesla said Thursday it would recall nearly all the Cybertrucks it has produced to repair a stainless steel trim panel that the carmaker said could become detached from the vehicle while driving.

Tesla, Cybertruck, Recalls, Automotive, Manufacturing

9 points by doener 13 days ago | 1 comments

China delays approval of BYD's Mexico plant amid fears tech could leak to US (ft.com)

China, Mexico, Business, Manufacturing, Technology

15 points by zfg 13 days ago | 5 comments

Want even tinier chips? Use a particle accelerator (economist.com)
Semiconductor chips are among the smallest and most detailed objects humans can manufacture. Shrinking the scale and upping the complexity is a fight against the limits of physics, and optical lithography—etching nanometre-scale patterns onto silicon with short-wavelength light—is its most extreme frontier.

Semiconductors, Nanotechnology, Physics, Manufacturing

65 points by jdaw0 16 days ago | 72 comments

Boston Metal shows industrial reactor that uses electricity to make steel (technologyreview.com)
Green-steel startup Boston Metal just showed that it has all the ingredients needed to make steel without emitting gobs of greenhouse gases. The company successfully ran its largest reactor yet to make steel, producing over a ton of metal, MIT Technology Review can exclusively report.

Sustainability, Steel, Manufacturing, Green Technology

10 points by animal_spirits 16 days ago | 2 comments

Tesla Cybertruck deliveries on hold as trims are flying off 'bulletproof' truck (electrek.co)
According to Tesla delivery agents, Cybertruck deliveries are on hold. There’s a containment hold as many owners are reporting trims flying off the supposedly ‘bulletproof’ electric truck.

Tesla, Electric Vehicles, Manufacturing, Quality Control, Consumer Issues

130 points by croes 19 days ago | 237 comments

Trump's Big Bet: Americans Will Tolerate Downturn to Restore Manufacturing (nytimes.com)
President Trump’s simultaneous trade wars with Canada, Mexico, China and the European Union amount to a huge economic and political gamble: that Americans will endure months or years of economic pain in return for the distant hope of re-industrializing the American heartland.

Politics, Economics, Trade, Manufacturing

22 points by voxadam 20 days ago | 14 comments

China's Homegrown EUV Machines Rumored for Q3 Trial Production (trendforce.com)
Has China already made striking breakthrough amid U.S. chip export curbs? According to TechPowerUp, China’s homegrown EUV lithography may longer be a distant goal, as a new system is currently being tested at Huawei’s Dongguan facility.

China, Semiconductor Industry, Manufacturing, Technology, Trade

5 points by xbmcuser 23 days ago | 2 comments

Lenovo joins growing China exodus as manufacturers flee US tariffs (tomshardware.com)

Lenovo, China, Tariffs, Manufacturing, Business

6 points by thunderbong 25 days ago | 1 comments

Google co-founder Larry Page reportedly has a new AI startup (techcrunch.com)
Google co-founder Larry Page is building a new company called Dynatomics that’s focused on applying AI to product manufacturing, according to The Information.

AI, Startups, Google, Manufacturing

12 points by isaacfrond 26 days ago | 0 comments

SpaceX's Texas Starlink Factory Produces 15,000 Dishes per Day (pcmag.com)
SpaceX has published a rare behind-the-scenes video of its Starlink dish factory in Bastrop, Texas, which is preparing to expand.

SpaceX, Starlink, Manufacturing, Technology, Texas

10 points by signatoremo 28 days ago | 2 comments

A clever grinding fixture for ultra-precision squaring – Cylo's Garage [video] (youtube.com)

Manufacturing, Engineering, DIY, Video

3 points by nill0 28 days ago | 0 comments

Ultrasonic deep drawing cuts friction by 20%, extends tool lifespan (techxplore.com)
Ultrasonic deep drawing makes the difference: with a drawing ratio of 2.3 and vibration support, the deep-drawn bowl.

Manufacturing, Engineering, Materials Science, Ultrasonic Technology

109 points by PaulHoule 29 days ago | 29 comments

TSMC and Trump announce $100B investment in the US, including three fabs (tomshardware.com)

Semiconductors, Business, Manufacturing, Politics, Technology

12 points by LorenDB 29 days ago | 1 comments

Fish-gathering plate proves a big hit with anglers (japantimes.co.jp)
Showa Kogyo, a metal processing firm in Kasugai, Aichi Prefecture, has developed a fish-gathering plate to attract thread-sail filefish as its first attempt in its 76-year history to create its own product.

Fishing, Japan, Product Development, Innovation, Manufacturing

3 points by PaulHoule 30 days ago | 0 comments

TSMC will reportedly invest $100B to expand US chip fab buildouts (arstechnica.com)
Striking a four-year deal with President Donald Trump, the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) plans to invest $100 billion in chip manufacturing plants in the US, sources told The Wall Street Journal.

Semiconductors, Manufacturing, Business, Technology, United States

35 points by whiteboardr 30 days ago | 3 comments

Schools reviving shop class (wsj.com)
In America’s most surprising cutting-edge classes, students pursue hands-on work with wood, metals and machinery, getting a jump on lucrative old-school careers.

Education, Vocational Training, Manufacturing, Careers

293 points by bookofjoe 31 days ago | 217 comments

Ohio One Construction Timeline Update (intel.com)
Intel’s Foundry Manufacturing leader announces planned construction completion dates for the company’s Ohio One site.

Construction, Ohio, Intel, Manufacturing, Technology

90 points by ChrisArchitect 33 days ago | 26 comments

'Hey Number 17 ' (404media.co)
A venture capital-backed “AI performance monitoring system for factory workers” is proposing what appears to be dehumanizing surveillance of factories, where machine vision tracks workers’ hand movements and output so a boss can look at graphs and yell at them about efficiency.

Artificial Intelligence, Surveillance, Labor, Manufacturing, Venture Capital

424 points by Amorymeltzer 36 days ago | 157 comments

Launch YC: Optifye.ai – AI performance monitoring for factory workers (ycombinator.com)
Know who's working & who's not in real-time

Artificial Intelligence, Manufacturing, Productivity, Startups, Y Combinator

42 points by walterbell 37 days ago | 58 comments

Warpage in wafer-level packaging: causes, modelling, and mitigation strategies (frontiersin.org)
Wafer-level packaging (WLP) is a pivotal semiconductor packaging technology that enables heterogeneously integrated advanced semiconductor packages with high-density electrical interconnections through its efficient and highly reliable manufacturing processes.

Semiconductors, Manufacturing, Packaging, Engineering

12 points by PaulHoule 37 days ago | 0 comments

Nvidia confirms 'rare' RTX 5090 and 5070 Ti manufacturing issue (theverge.com)
It’s true: Nvidia has just confirmed it shipped some RTX 5090, RTX 5090D, and even some RTX 5070 Ti graphics chips that were missing render units, as TechPowerUp originally reported — and that you’ll be able to get a replacement if your card was affected.

Nvidia, Graphics Cards, Hardware, Manufacturing, Technology

8 points by delaugust 38 days ago | 1 comments

Who wants to work in a factory? (arenamag.com)
For more than half a century, we Americans have distanced ourselves from the making of our everyday surroundings.

Manufacturing, Labor, Economy, Society

32 points by HR01 39 days ago | 64 comments

Reviving the joy and honor of working with your hands (2015) (richmond.com)
As the U.S. trade deficit soars along at an annual rate of a half-trillion dollars and the world starts digesting the implications of the titanic Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement, consider this guy...

Manufacturing, Economics, Trade

133 points by skadamat 50 days ago | 107 comments

TSMC 2nm Process Disclosure – How Does It Measure Up? (semiwiki.com)
TSMC presented its 2nm Platform Technology at IEDM 2024, focusing on energy-efficient nanosheet transistors and 3DIC co-optimization for various applications.

Semiconductors, Technology, Nanotechnology, Manufacturing, TSMC

136 points by sroussey 50 days ago | 101 comments

Advanced Magnet Manufacturing Begins in the United States (ieee.org)
In mid-January, a top United States materials company announced that it had started to manufacture rare earth magnets.