The Bundeskartellamt has taken legal action against the financial company PayPal Europe for possible anti-competitive behavior on the market. The subject of the proceedings were additional fees from PayPal customers, the ban on price competition and...
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The rapid development of the electric vehicle industry increases the demand for next-generation semiconductor components. In particular, power elements made of silicon carbide can withstand higher loads and offer greater energy efficiency. According...
Intel acquired a piece of land in Magdeburg last fall, on which construction of a chip packaging and test facility is to begin this year. The costs will increase and the European Commission has not yet decided on the level of subsidies. Company...
The Bundeskartellamt, one of the main competition authorities in this European country, has objected to Google’s existing data processing terms and expects the company to make appropriate changes. On December 23, the regulatory authority sent...
While the world’s largest manufacturer of traction batteries, CATL, has been prevented from entering the United States for political reasons, one of them has already started operations in Europe, supplying lithium batteries to BMW and Mercedes...
For a long time, the TSMC management did not want to comment directly on rumors about a planned location in Germany, but now the Financial Times reports that at the beginning of next year a delegation of representatives from the Taiwanese contract...
Increasing construction costs from initial estimates are the order of the day, and Intel’s project to build two chip testing and packaging facilities in Germany was no exception, according to German press reports. According to the source...
It is possible that the events of the outgoing week somehow fueled the aspirations of European countries for technological sovereignty, because recently a ceremony was held in Arizona, attended by the President of the United States, TSMC management...
Meta Virtual Reality Headsets* Platforms returns to German store shelves for the first time in over two years. To do this, the company had to make an important concession to the local antitrust authorities. Image source: Meta* Meta VR Headsets*...
This week, the pages of Intel’s corporate blog featured the posting of Executive Vice President Keyvan Esfarjani, who is responsible for the company’s global manufacturing activities. He tried to reassure investors that worsening...
The US Federal Court of Claims issued a ruling ordering the US Navy, a German company that develops visualization and 3D graphics software suffering from piracy by the military, to pay a large settlement. Image Credit: Handout/Getty Images The court...
As TSMC’s largest customer, Apple in the US is not excluded from the trend towards geographic diversification in chip manufacturing, as CEO Tim Cook made clear during his business trip to Germany. Apple expects to use chips made in the US in...
When the long-awaited start of mass production of Model Y electric crossovers took place at the Tesla plant near Berlin this spring, the company management announced that it would switch locally assembled machines to more modern Type 4680 battery...
Four years after Alstom’s Coradia iLint hydrogen-powered trains were tested in Germany, mass passenger transport with this vehicle began in the German state of Lower Saxony. Image source: Alstom The test flights, which began in September 2018...
Many automakers, claiming global leadership in the electric vehicle segment, are being forced to integrate independent production of traction batteries into their business plans. Volkswagen went from talk to action this week, announcing the start of...
