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Foxconn to build EV ecosystem and battery production chain in Kaohsiung, Taiwan

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Foxconn plans to build an EV ecosystem and a complete battery production chain in the southern city as part of its ambition to expand into the EV industry, ranging from the development of EVs to the production of battery packs and cells, and energy storage systems. million (US$50,000) per vehicle.

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TSMC to Build Chip Fab in Japan

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After a week of media rumor, leaks and speculation, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. TSMC), the world's largest contract chip manufacturer, announced in an online earnings briefing Thursday that it would build a semiconductor plant in Japan. In fact, TSMC is only part of the government's strategy," notes Kuroda.

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Ford launches Hsuehshan Tunnel Transformer Challenge in Taiwan; Mobility Challenge Series 2.0

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Building on the success of Ford’s Innovate Mobility Challenge Series (IMCS) 1.0 in 2014 ( earlier post ), Ford has launched the Hsuehshan Tunnel Transformer Challenge in Taiwan, which asks developers to submit traffic-busting solutions for the main highway artery between Taipei and popular tourist destination Yilan.

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U.S. Universities Are Building a New Semiconductor Workforce

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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing C o. TSMC), which was already building a $12 billion fab in Arizona , upped the investment to $40 billion with a second plant. There is no shortage of talent in the region, Howard adds, since manufacturing is already a major activity in Ohio and other parts of the Midwest.

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Saudi Arabia partners with Foxconn on new EV brand

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Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund and Taiwan-based technology manufacturer Foxconn entered into a joint venture to develop and manufacture electric vehicles. The PIF previously invested in Lucid to attract industrial firms to create a domestic supply chain in Saudi Arabia. .

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Intel Invests $20-billion in Ohio for Advanced Fabs

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Intel announced today that it will build two leading edge logic fabs east of Columbus at a cost of $20 billion. The new fabs are part of a reset of Intel's manufacturing, a plan called IDM 2.0 , that would see Intel regain its ability to make chips at the most advanced nodes and offer foundry services to other companies. So, why Ohio?

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Clever Compression of Some Neural Nets Improves Performance

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To learn speech recognition using only supervised learning, software requires a lot of existing audio-text pairings, which are in short supply for some languages. Artificial intelligence can then build on these patterns and learn more focused tasks using supervised learning on minimal data, a process called fine-tuning.

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