Hacker News with Generative AI: Manufacturing

Yes, reshoring American industry is possible (noahpinion.blog)
Reshoring American industry has become a bipartisan policy objective — it has always been part of Donald Trump’s agenda, and Biden cared a lot about it as well.

Politics, Economics, Manufacturing

8 points by paulpauper 2 days ago | 0 comments

Chinese semiconductor production equipment makers set sales records (tomshardware.com)

Semiconductors, China, Business, Manufacturing

5 points by rbanffy 4 days ago | 0 comments

First all-Indian chips to debut this year, 25 more local designs in the works (theregister.com)
India's ambition to become a semiconductor manufacturing player will bear fruit later this year with the debut of the first silicon designed and built in the nation.

India, Semiconductors, Technology, Manufacturing

5 points by rntn 4 days ago | 0 comments

Invisible Electrostatic Wall at 3M plant (1996) (amasci.com)
David Swenson of 3M Corporation describes an anomaly where workers encountered a strange "invisible wall" in the area under a fast-moving sheet of electrically charged polypropelene film in a factory.

Physics, Manufacturing, Industrial Accidents

403 points by Simon_O_Rourke 6 days ago | 221 comments

TSMC reportedly pauses production after strong earthquake hits Taiwan (theregister.com)
Taiwan has experienced an earthquake so significant that chipmaking champ TSMC has shuttered plants.

Taiwan, Earthquakes, Semiconductors, Technology, Manufacturing

6 points by LinuxBender 6 days ago | 1 comments

TSMC reportedly pauses production after strong earthquake hits Taiwan (theregister.com)
Taiwan has experienced an earthquake so significant that chipmaking champ TSMC has shuttered plants.

Taiwan, Earthquakes, Semiconductors, Manufacturing

6 points by mfiguiere 7 days ago | 0 comments

BYD is about to open another EV plant overseas with 150,000 vehicle capacity (electrek.co)
The world’s largest electric vehicle maker is becoming a force in the global auto market. BYD confirmed it’s on track to open another massive EV plant overseas by the end of 2025.

Electric Vehicles, Manufacturing, China, Global Market, Automotive

21 points by zfg 7 days ago | 46 comments

Russia Slashes Engine Production as Domestic Airliner Production Flounders (simpleflying.com)

Russia, Aviation, Manufacturing, Economy

5 points by teractiveodular 8 days ago | 1 comments

Swedish Exports of Ball Bearings (reddit.com)
"Swedish exports of ball bearings" are commonly brought up in historical discussions of World War II. Why were other countries so reliant on Swedish ball bearings and unable to produce enough themselves?

History, Manufacturing, Sweden

54 points by zeristor 10 days ago | 10 comments

Anduril Building Arsenal-1 Hyperscale Manufacturing Facility in Ohio (anduril.com)
A family of autonomous systems, powered by Lattice, that provides integrated, persistent awareness and security across land, sea and air -- all at the tactical edge.

Robotics, Manufacturing, Defense, Artificial Intelligence, Ohio

15 points by rntn 12 days ago | 15 comments

100x defect tolerance: How we solved the yield problem (cerebras.ai)
Conventional wisdom in semiconductor manufacturing has long held that bigger chips mean worse yields. Yet at Cerebras, we’ve successfully built and commercialized a chip 50x larger than the largest computer chips – and achieved comparable yields.

Semiconductors, Manufacturing, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Hardware, Yield

331 points by jwan584 12 days ago | 179 comments

Taiwan clears TSMC to make 2nm chips abroad – country lowers 'Silicon Shield' (tomshardware.com)

Taiwan, Semiconductors, Manufacturing, Technology, Geopolitics

5 points by transpute 13 days ago | 0 comments

Apple will soon receive 'made in America' chips from TSMC's Arizona fab (tomshardware.com)

Apple, Manufacturing, Semiconductors, Arizona, Taiwan

491 points by rbanffy 13 days ago | 471 comments

Boeing production in 2024 expected to be less than half of rival Airbus (theguardian.com)
Boeing is expected to confirm it made less than half of the aircraft of its rival Airbus in 2024, with analysts questioning whether the troubled US planemaker will be able to increase its rate of production as planned.

Aviation, Boeing, Airbus, Manufacturing, Competition

10 points by throwup238 15 days ago | 9 comments

TSMC's Arizona Fab 21 is already making 4nm chips (tomshardware.com)

TSMC, Arizona, Semiconductors, Manufacturing, Chip Production

21 points by libpcap 16 days ago | 5 comments

Foxconn has stopped sending Chinese workers to India iPhone factories (restofworld.org)
Foxconn is halting new work rotations for its Chinese employees at its Apple iPhone factories in India, and sending Taiwanese workers instead, according to five people familiar with Foxconn’s operations in India.

Foxconn, Apple, iPhone, India, Manufacturing

11 points by ywnzzn 18 days ago | 0 comments

Soldering the Tek way (hackaday.com)
For a lot of us, soldering just seems to come naturally. But if we’re being honest, none of us was born with a soldering iron in our hand — ouch! — and if we’re good at soldering now, it’s only thanks to good habits and long practice. But what if you’re a company that lives and dies by the quality of the solder joints your employees produce? How do you get them to embrace the dark art of soldering?

Soldering, Electronics, Manufacturing, Training, Quality Control

204 points by zdw 18 days ago | 102 comments

Poka-Yoke (wikipedia.org)
Poka-yoke (ポカヨケ, [poka joke]) is a Japanese term that means "mistake-proofing" or "error prevention".

Japanese Culture, Quality Control, Manufacturing

69 points by logikblok 19 days ago | 46 comments

BYD, "Slave-gate" and the soul search about China's cutthroat industrial model (pandapawdragonclaw.blog)
You cannot sell all your products to increasingly impoverished customers.

China, Business, Ethics, Manufacturing

11 points by yorwba 21 days ago | 0 comments

Kodak increases film production capacity to meet commercial, consumer demand (rochesterfirst.com)
As of Tuesday, Kodak has finished upgrading its film production and finishing facilities to keep up with demand.

Kodak, Film Photography, Business, Manufacturing

72 points by throw0101b 24 days ago | 40 comments

China is the manufacturing superpower (cepr.org)
The US is the world’s sole military superpower. It spends more on its military than the ten next highest spending countries combined. China is now the world’s sole manufacturing superpower. Its production exceeds that of the nine next largest manufacturers combined.

China, Manufacturing, Military, Superpower, Economics

199 points by luu 24 days ago | 298 comments

Factories in Space (factoriesinspace.com)
Factories in space. Making products for Earth.

Space Exploration, Manufacturing, Innovation

13 points by yearesadpeople 24 days ago | 24 comments

Phase 2 China shock is coming: Adam Tooze on Europe, America and manufacturing (yahoo.com)
British historian and Columbia University professor Adam Tooze says jobs are the at the heart of the matter.

Economics, International Relations, China, Manufacturing, Europe

5 points by thread_id 26 days ago | 2 comments

A Computerized Approach to Manufacturing Planning (Confidential 1966 IBM Report) (archive.org)
IBM Technical Report TR 22.256: A Computerized Approach To Manufacturing Planning, by Robert Sadofsky. Published May 2nd, 1966.

Manufacturing, Computer Science, History, IBM, Research

15 points by textfiles 29 days ago | 0 comments

TSMC's Arizona Plant to Start Making Advanced Chips (ieee.org)
After years of planning, building, geopolitical wrangling, and workforce challenges, the world’s largest semiconductor foundry, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) is officially starting mass production at an advanced chip-manufacturing facility in Phoenix in 2025.

Semiconductors, Manufacturing, Technology, Arizona

352 points by rbanffy 31 days ago | 173 comments

Samsung gets $4.7B grants for Texas fabs (nist.gov)
The U.S. Department of Commerce awarded Samsung Austin Semiconductor, LLC, a subsidiary of Samsung Electronics (Samsung), up to $4.745 billion in direct funding under the CHIPS and Science Act to strengthen the resilience of the U.S. semiconductor supply chain, advance U.S. technology leadership, and fuel U.S. global competitiveness.

Government Funding, Semiconductors, Texas, Manufacturing, Technology

32 points by osnium123 38 days ago | 6 comments

Intel 18A Process Node Clocks an Abysmal 10% Yield (techpowerup.com)
In case you're wondering why Intel went with TSMC 3 nm to build the Compute tile of its "Arrow Lake" processor, and the SoC tile of "Lunar Lake," instead of Intel 3, or even Intel 20A, perhaps there's more to the recent story about Broadcom voicing its disappointment in the Intel 18A foundry node.

Semiconductors, Intel, Technology, Manufacturing, Business

9 points by LordNibbler 40 days ago | 0 comments

China took a great leap forward in high-tech manufacturing of everything (nytimes.com)
I just spent a week in Beijing and Shanghai, meeting with Chinese officials, economists and entrepreneurs, and let me get right to the point: While we were sleeping China took a great leap forward in high-tech manufacturing of everything.

China, Manufacturing, Technology, Economics

6 points by jakubmazanec 40 days ago | 2 comments

Sudden Loss of Undocumented Workers Threw Tech Supplier into Upheaval (nytimes.com)
Jabil, a major manufacturer of electronics components for the tech industry, made a startling discovery in the spring of 2021: It had been relying on dozens of undocumented workers, contracted from a staffing agency, to power its manufacturing sites near Silicon Valley.

Immigration, Manufacturing, Tech Industry, Labor

14 points by gorbachev 42 days ago | 7 comments

Silicon Anode Batteries for EVs Are Ready for Production (ieee.org)
While the world is waiting—and waiting—for the giant leap to solid-state batteries, a nimble step to silicon anode cells is well underway. That transitional stage includes a key ingredient made in the U.S., not China.

Electric Vehicles, Battery Technology, Silicon, Manufacturing

9 points by rbanffy 45 days ago | 0 comments