The AI data center will result in 2,300 union construction jobs and around 2,000 permanent jobs over time, said the White House
President Joe Biden announced this week Microsoft’s plans to build a $3.3 billion artificial intelligence (AI) data center at the failed Foxconn site...
French low-power IoT specialist Actility, operating and selling LoRaWAN infrastructure, has raised €16 million ($17.2m) in a new funding round to drive its own growth in the private networks space and consolidation in the wider low-power IoT market. The implication is that Actility remains...
Foxconn is investing $246 million in Vietnam's northern province of Quang Ninh
Reports indicate that Hon Hai Technology Group (Foxconn) has been granted permission by Vietnam authorities to invest $246 million in assembling telecoms and electronic vehicle (EV) equipment in the country.
The company, according...
The new factory will be built in the Indian PM’s home state of Gujarat
Taiwanese semiconductor giant Foxconn and Indian mining conglomerate Vedanta have announced a deal with the Indian government to build one of the first semiconductor manufacturing facilities in the country. The $19.5...
Dutch chipmaker NXP Semiconductors is to work with Hon Hai Technology Group (Foxconn) to jointly develop new compute and connectivity platforms for software-defined electric vehicles, offering varying degrees of autonomy. Foxconn will use NXP’s chip portfolio to produce electronic componentry for electrification, connectivity, and...
German operator Deutsche Telekom and the Open Networking Foundation (ONF) announced the launch of a software-defined RAN trial in Berlin.
The partners noted that the Berlin trial is the first field trial implementing fully disaggregated open RAN solutions using ONF's RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC) software...
The World Economic Forum has added 15 new ‘smart’ manufacturing sites to its ‘global lighthouse network’, and claimed production output among Industry 4.0 leaders spiralled upwards by 93 percent in the past year, through the Covid-era. New joiners include factories owned by Bosch, Foxconn,...
As part of a larger plan to build a smart factory, Foxconn Industrial Internet (FII) in Wisconsin worked with Airspan Networks to deploy a CBRS network over which all autonomous operations across the manufacturing campus will be managed.
After revealing its smart factory plans in...
Quality assurance is a critical part of manufacturing; it’s just humans are not very good at it. Their faculties are not trained to pick out anomalies in rapid carousels of industrial assemblages. More than this, they just can’t do it.
Modern manufacturing, particularly of discrete...
The World Economic Forum has expanded its list of the most advanced factories in the world, consolidating Europe’s position as the smartest region for manufacturing. China shores up its second place. The US and Middle East trail behind.
In total, seven new ‘lighthouse’ factories (listed...
After launching its 5G modem chip early this year, Intel has announced plans to commercialize the technology in 2019. The company said its XMMTM 8060 modem is already making 5G calls using spectrum in the 28 GHz band.
The XMMTM 8060 will support both sub-6GHz...
The small cells developer said it is confident that the firm is in a good position to meet the increasing demand for this product
HONG KONG- Airspan Networks, a provider of LTE small cells and backhaul technologies, said the company is taking actions to scale...
The two companies will apply industrial IoT solutions at Foxconn’s U.S. facility
Taiwanese manufacturer Hon Hai Precision Industry (Foxconn) and U.S. company Rockwell Automation have announced a collaborative agreement to implement connected enterprise and industrial IoT concepts for smart manufacturing in Foxconn's new U.S. facilities.
The...
Low-power cellular connectivity standards are creating new opportunities for companies that want to connect assets or equipment in a secure and reliable way. But unlike the IoT devices that leverage unlicensed spectrum, those in the licensed bands require carrier certification in order to operate...
Apple CEO Tim Cook said the company will create a $1 billion fund to support advanced manufacturing in the U.S. He said Apple will announce its first investment later this month.
"We asked ourselves 'How can we get more people to do advanced manufacturing in...
Other potential investors in SoftBank fund include chipmaker Qualcomm and Chinese manufacturer Foxconn.
Apple confirmed plans to invest $1 billion in a tech fund being set up by Japanese telecommunications group SoftBank, The Wall Street Journal reported.
"We believe their new fund will speed...
5 things to know today...
1. Nokia moved one step closer to relaunching its smartphone brand with news that Pekka Rantala will become CMO at the company that has licensed the Nokia brand. Rantala is a Nokia veteran who also has served as CEO of...
Latest round of job cuts builds on 1,850 layoffs Microsoft announced in May
Continuing to tighten its belt, Microsoft plans to get rid of some 2,850 employees this year, according to a new filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
This is an expansion of...
IoT platform ThingPark China will launch commercial operations in Q3 2016
French provider of "internet of things" services Actility partnered with Foxconn Technology Group to launch ThingPark China, a collaborative initiative to deliver a comprehensive suite of IoT solutions to the Chinese market.
The new initiatives...
IoT platform ThingPark China will launch commercial operations in Q3 2016
French provider of internet of things services Actility partnered with Foxconn Technology Group to launch ThingPark China, a collaborative initiative to deliver a comprehensive suite of internet of things (IoT) solutions to the Chinese...
Nokia has had a long and twisted history in the mobile device space, with its recent reincarnate set to continue that story
The Nokia brand has lived a very colorful, but sometimes confusing, life as one of the most successful companies manufacturing and selling cellphones....
Former McDonald's CEO: Robots are 'going to cause a job loss across this country like you're not going to believe'
The use of robots in manufacturing and other types of industry is not a new phenomenon, but, with advances in technology, the current tide of...
Former McDonalds CEO: Robots are 'going to cause a job loss across this country like you're not going to believe'
The use of robots in manufacturing and other types of industry is not a new phenomenon, but, with advances in technology, the current tide of...
Microsoft bought brand in 2013, now Nokia licensing owned by HMD with Foxconn acquiring manufacturing/distribution rights
After the Nokia smartphone unit was purchased by Microsoft in 2013, the brand slowly faded away, a big departure from the days when the brand dominated the market. But,...
