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Sony TL;DR Sony may have outsourced the manufacturing of its flagship phones. The company has removed the term “smartphones” from the list of products on its manufacturing-focused websites in Thailand and China. The Xperia 1 VII is reportedly the first of its premium phones to be made by a third party. Over the years, Sony has increasingly distanced itself from the smartphone market. The company currently relies on third-party manufacturers to make its mid-range offerings. Although it outsou
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May 28, 2025 What does "Undecidable" mean, anyway An explainer for people who don't know computer science and are mildly curious Systems Distributed I'll be speaking at Systems Distributed next month! The talk is brand new and will aim to showcase some of the formal methods mental models that would be useful in mainstream software development. It has added some extra stress on my schedule, though, so expect the next two monthly releases of Logic for Programmers to be mostly minor changes. W
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May 28, 2025 What does "Undecidable" mean, anyway An explainer for people who don't know computer science and are mildly curious Systems Distributed I'll be speaking at Systems Distributed next month! The talk is brand new and will aim to showcase some of the formal methods mental models that would be useful in mainstream software development. It has added some extra stress on my schedule, though, so expect the next two monthly releases of Logic for Programmers to be mostly minor changes. W
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During his keynote address at Computex in Taipei today, Foxconn chairman Young Liu warned that generative AI and robotics might soon make low-wage human labor unnecessary on the assembly line. This could have huge implications that go way beyond iPhone manufacturing. A costly shift in the assembly line As reported by The Register, Liu told the audience that after plugging AI tools into Foxconn’s workflows, software now performs roughly 80 percent of the work required to configure equipment for
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President Trump’s chaotic implementation of new tariffs has roiled markets and wrecked decades of international cooperation and free trade agreements. At the heart of these actions, and one of the motivating forces of his political movement, is the belief that the de-industrialization of the U.S. economy can somehow be reversed by protectionist trade policies. Unfortunately, this is not going to work. Manufacturing’s share of the U.S. economy has been falling since the 1940s. While the decline
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is a senior science reporter covering energy and the environment with more than a decade of experience. She is also the host of Hell or High Water: When Disaster Hits Home , a podcast from Vox Media and Audible Originals. Renewable energy has driven a manufacturing boom in the US, but that’s all at stake as Congress weighs cuts to Biden-era tax incentives. Solar, wind, and battery companies have announced plans to either create or expand 250 manufacturing facilities since August 2022. That’s w
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Apple boosts India's factory hopes - but a US-China deal could derail plans 8 hours ago Share Save Nikhil Inamdar • @Nik_inamdar BBC News, London Share Save Reuters Apple is shifting most of its production of iPhones headed to the US from China to India Just as India showed flickers of progress toward its long-held dream of becoming the world's factory, Washington and Beijing announced a trade "reset" that could derail Delhi's ambitions to replace China as the global manufacturing hub. Last w
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Update: Apple says that the claims made in this book are false and there are many inaccuracies throughout. The company asserts that the author didn’t perform proper fact-checking. The original post is below, but we encourage readers to cross-reference its claims with other sources. Based on more than 200 interviews with former Apple execs and engineers, Patrick McGee’s Apple in China – The Capture of the World’s Greatest Company ought to leave Tim Cook laying awake at night. It makes a convinc
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Based on more than 200 interviews with former Apple execs and engineers, Patrick McGee’s Apple in China – The Capture of the World’s Greatest Company ought to leave Tim Cook laying awake at night. It makes a convincing argument that the iPhone could be killed overnight should the Chinese government wish it. This is a book reminiscent of Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs in its careful research and the detailed inside stories it tells about Apple. The company’s official line is that it’s full of inac
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years.TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust Editor's take: As Space Forge prepares for its first demonstration mission, the company is positioning itself for a new era in advanced manufacturing. By taking production beyond the confines of Earth, Space Forge hopes to deliver breakthroughs that could reshape industries, strengthen supply chains, and contribute to a more sustainable future. A British startup focused on manufacturing advanced ma
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Apple's CEO Tim Cook has reportedly agreed to increase the amount of iPhone production that takes place in the US, according to President Donald Trump. Speaking to press in Qatar, Trump said he had "a little problem with Tim Cook yesterday," regarding Apple's plans to shift production away from China to India in a bid to avoid tariffs. But the president has asked Cook not to build out its Indian manufacturing base. Apple didn't respond to a request for comment on the matter. Back in February,
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Apple's CEO Tim Cook has reportedly agreed to increase the amount of iPhone production that takes place in the US, according to President Donald Trump. Speaking to press in Qatar, Trump said he had "a little problem with Tim Cook yesterday," regarding Apple's plans to shift production away from China to India in a bid to avoid tariffs. But the president has asked Cook not to build out its Indian manufacturing base. Apple didn't respond to a request for comment on the matter. Back in February,
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Even if tariffs on China have come down slightly, you should assume all your gaming consoles will cost more going forward. Sony, the makers of PlayStation, claims it is looking down the hole of around $680 million in lost revenue due to tariffs. The company says it has two options to remediate the impact of tariffs: moving manufacturing to the U.S. and increasing prices of products like its PlayStation 5. Knowing recent price increases from Nintendo and Microsoft, pricier PS5s sound highly likel
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What just happened? Sony is considering increasing the price of its products, including the PlayStation 5, and moving manufacturing to the US due to the impact Trump's tariffs are having on its business. The company already raised the price of the PS5 in April for customers in Europe, Australia, and New Zealand, but the new hikes would extend to other locations, including the US. Sony has forecast an operating income of 1.38 trillion yen ($9.4 billion) for the current fiscal year. That's an 8%
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Apple’s stock is having a good day following word of a US-China trade agreement in the works, and temporary pauses on most tariffs. President Trump called Apple CEO Tim Cook to discuss the news, per CNBC, here’s what he shared with reporters afterwards. Kif Leswing writes at CNBC: “I spoke to Tim Cook this morning, and he’s going to, I think, even up his numbers,” Trump said in the Oval Office. ”$500 billion, he’s going to be building a lot of plants in the United States for Apple. And we look
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A logo hangs on the building of the Beijing branch of Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) on December 4, 2020 in Beijing, China. Shares of Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation, China's largest contract chip maker, fell nearly 7% Friday after its first-quarter earnings missed estimates. After trading on Thursday, the company reported a first-quarter revenue of $2.24 billion, up about 28% from a year earlier. Meanwhile, profit attributable to shareholder
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Has somebody already done this? Since this is one of those super simple things that anyone can do—they just need to be the first to find it,—I was worried I had spent a whole bunch of time repeating something someone else had done already. I was also aware of other projects that use repeated actions to expose generational loss that I mentioned earlier, but nothing that focused specifically on rotation as the impetus, and nothing that ended up with Turing patterns. After some cybersearching, I c
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Jessica Frick wants to build furnaces in space. Her company, California-based Astral Materials, is designing machines that can grow valuable materials in orbit that could be used in medicine, semiconductors, and more. Or, as she puts it, “We’re building a box that makes money in space.” Scientists have long suggested that the microgravity environment of Earth’s orbit could enable the production of higher-quality products than it is possible to make on Earth. Astronauts experimented with crystal
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Apple will be sourcing almost its entire line of iPhones sold in the US -- about 60 million phones a year -- from assembly facilities in India, CEO Tim Cook said Thursday. The planned move comes against the backdrop of the Trump administration imposing tariffs against China of up to 145%. The tech giant is predicting a $900 million impact to Apple's costs this coming quarter if tariff policies, rates and applications stay as they are right now. "For the June quarter, we do expect the majority
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years.TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust Recap: The Raspberry Pi 5 was launched in 2023, delivering more than twice the performance of the previous generation. The board was also instrumental in bringing a small, yet significant change in how the UK foundation is actually printing its single-board computers. By changing the way Raspberry Pi boards are assembled and components are soldered, the maker improved its operations in what it descr
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What just happened? IBM has joined the list of companies pledging to pour billions into the US manufacturing industry. The software giant has announced it will be investing $150 billion in the United States over the next five years, including $30 billion toward production of its mainframe and quantum computers. Arvind Krishna, IBM chairman, president and chief executive officer, said, "We have been focused on American jobs and manufacturing since our founding 114 years ago, and with this invest
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US tariffs against China that could raise prices of iPhones significantly are prompting Apple to shift manufacturing to India, which has lower tariffs. But how much of that manufacturing will shift and how soon it will happen could be complicated by special iPhone editions expected for release in 2027, a report suggests. According to Mark Gurman's Power On newsletter for Bloomberg, Apple has plans for two special editions to mark the 20th anniversary of the iPhone. One could be a foldable iPhon
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In Brief Enterprise tech giant IBM says that it plans to invest $150 billion in the U.S. over the next five years, which will include a “more than” $30 billion investment in mainframe and quantum computing research. The goal is to fuel the economy and “accelerate [IBM’s] role as the global leader in computing,” the company said in a press release Monday. “We have been focused on American jobs and manufacturing since our founding 114 years ago,” CEO Arvind Krishna said in a statement, “and with
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Arvind Krishna, chief executive officer of International Business Machines Corp. (IBM), during a Bloomberg Television interview at the World Governments Summit in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025. International Business Machines Corporation on Monday announced it will invest $150 billion in the U.S. over the next five years, including more than $30 billion to advance American manufacturing of its mainframe and quantum computers. "We have been focused on American jobs and
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Despite the geopolitical chaos and market collapses triggered by President Trump’s announcement of broad tariffs on international goods, some supporters still hope the strategy will produce a “golden age” of American industry. In fact, the high and crudely designed tariffs set out by the administration could damage a recent rebound in US manufacturing. Building factories and the supply chains they run on takes years—even decades—of steady investment. Meanwhile, tariffs have the immediate impa
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As Donald Trump's trade war brings new levels of uncertainty to American manufacturing sector, one issue seems to have been vastly overlooked: China's massive legion of robot workers. New reporting by the New York Times on Chinese robotics is shedding light on the enormous scale of automation happening across the Pacific. The article highlights the fact that China is currently one of the most automated countries in the world, with more capacity than the US, Germany, or even Japan — and more rob
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Apple is planning a ‘major shake-up’ for the iPhone in 2027, in celebration of the iPhone’s 20th anniversary. While we don’t know too many details about the redesign, we do know one thing: the company wants to utilize a lot more glass. This special 20th anniversary iPhone model likely would’ve come with a price premium regardless. However, it may come with an even heftier one than usual. At least right now, it seems like hefty tariffs on China will stick around. At the moment, there is an exem
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Forward-looking: Apple is preparing a dramatic overhaul of its global manufacturing strategy, aiming to move all assembly of iPhones destined for the US market from China to India by the end of 2026. This ambitious plan, which the Financial Times confirmed with multiple sources close to the company, is a direct response to escalating trade tensions and steep tariffs imposed by the Trump administration on Chinese imports, which have threatened to drive up the cost of Apple's flagship product and
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On the back of a visit to India by Vice President JD Vance, a new report says that Apple hopes to move production of all U.S.-bound iPhones to the country by the end of 2026. The move is in response to President Trump’s global trade war—China has been hit with the highest tariffs of over 100% on imports to the U.S., though he made an exemption for smartphones, which subjects them to lower tariffs of 20% for now. India is subject to 26% “reciprocal” tariffs, though they are temporarily paused wh
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On the back of a visit to India by Vice President JD Vance, a new report says that Apple hopes to move production of all U.S.-bound iPhones to the country by the end of 2026. The move is in response to President Trump’s global trade war—China has been hit with the highest tariffs of over 100% on imports to the U.S., though he made an exemption for smartphones, which subjects them to lower tariffs of 20% for now. India is subject to 26% “reciprocal” tariffs, though they are temporarily paused wh
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