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Who will manufacture the consoles now

August 8, 2025 by usatoday24

Do you remember those non-tan-lejanos times in which the video game scene was a real field planted with pots, each with its characteristics, its catalogs and its peculiarities? Only in the 1990s there were 32 different consoles in the market… And that without counting the laptops! But the times have changed, and that park diminishes dangerously to approach a point where we possibly only have a console with our own hardware before us. To content. The news that has made the most veteran fans to get the beards have come directly from Sony’s senior vice president: Sadahiko Hayakawa states that are gradually changing their video game business of a hardware -centered model “to a model that expands the community and increases interaction.” Hayawaka says that all Sony is reorienting “creation” rather than the device factory, since games, music and cinema have ended up adding 60% of the company’s total benefits. The manager has mentioned the recent purchase from Bandai Namco As an example of this reorientation in the search, for example, of profitable IPS. It has been seeing. Sony has been launching signs that point by steps in this direction for a while. The clearest, the launch of ‘2’ Helldivers in Xbox Series X and S A year after his arrival exclusively to PS5 and that of ‘Lego Horizon Adventures’ on Switch. The purchase of Bandai Namco also points in that direction: franchises such as ‘Dragon Ball’ are too juicy (and universal) and to limit the potential millionaire bemnefits with an exclusivity. It is sought. Another sign of this change is the Rumors linked to a work offer in PlayStation About the games will be carried at PC in just six months after their departure in PlayStation. If so, titles such as ‘Death Stranding 2’ would be in PlayStation before the end of the year. Finally, there has been job offers In search of multiplatform development directors and accounts management in which, literally, “design and execute a global commercial roadmap that expands the PlayStation Studios titles beyond the limits of the hardware of the company itself.” Xbox was first. Sony and Microsoft are going to par, and Microsoft has taken much more determined steps in that direction: Xbox emblematic games such as’ Gears of War ‘,’ Forza Horizon 5 ‘E’ Indian With excellent sales results (Seven of the twenty best -selling games in PlayStation They are Xbox properties). Have expressly spoken of give up permanent exclusivities. And his slogan “Play wherever you want “ It could not be clearer: Xbox’s future intention is to sell a platform, not a machine. Nintendo to yours. The only one that remains unperturbed to events is Nintendo, and has achieved it with a strategy that they explain GREATED OUR COMPANIONS OF LIFEXTRA: Game prices do not change. It doesn’t matter if you buy the new ‘Mario Kart’ the departure day or a year later, they will cost the same. Punishment for late? It may be, but above all, a prize for those who arrive first, who are going to play longer for the same price. And so, the sales of the games from day one have multiplied, which has strengthened the company’s bases and has strengthened it in the economic. Nintendo can allow you to be the only one in the patio, you do not need to beg for other systems. The million dollar question. Obviously it is … Who will manufacture the consoles now? And the answer is evident: nobody. The future is from the cloudand in that sense Xbox is betting all its chips. As they claim, Game Pass is leaving profitablerather than selling games in boxes, and one of the most powerful aspects of the subscription is to be able to run its titles on any screen. If PlayStation also launches something like that (not necessarily with its own platform, but generating material for others), we can be before the death sentence not only of the physical format, but directly from traditional consoles. A confusing future. Nothing screams more “transition stage” than this was that we have had to live. From Microsoft literally disintegrating all the possibilities that we see a new box called “Xbox” to Nintendo remaining faithful to its screens, its franchises and its prices, through a Sony that enters a phase of change confessed, it is difficult to predict what the future will bring us. It is clear that there will be more screens than ever. What is not clear is what they will be plugged in. In Xataka | PlayStation 6: All the information we know (or we think) so far

The plan to manufacture the purest semiconductors in the world is to go to space

July 26, 2025 by usatoday24

While the United States and China tense their relationships with Taiwan chips factories in the center of the dispute, a Welsh Startup has been getting allies To manufacture semiconductors in orbit. The objective: to achieve an impossible quality to replicate on Earth. Context. The geopolitics of semiconductors is possibly one of the largest headaches for world powers. Europe imports 80% of the chips you need, and 90% of the most advanced It comes from Taiwan. An climb of tension in the region could have catastrophic consequences. Therefore, the search for a resilient supply chain is a strategic priority. The solution, paradoxically, may not be on earth. This is where it enters Space Forgean Aerospace Company based in Cardiff that is developing reusable satellites to manufacture semiconductors and other advanced materials in orbit. Manufacture chips in space. Why go so far for something so small? The answer is in physics. Vacuum and microgravity They are ideal conditions for the development of ultrapurus crystalsthe base of any semiconductor. On earth, gravity introduces tiny imperfections and defects in the crystalline structure of the materials during their formation. NASA He has been studying for decades The advantages of manufacturing in space. Gravity causes phenomena such as convection and sedimentation of molten materials, which prevents a homogeneous distribution of components and generates defects. In space, these problems disappear. Materials are formed more perfectly, which translates into higher quality chips, more efficient and lower energy consumption. The first satellite. Space Force believes that glass “seeds” can occur in space 10 times pure That anyone found on Earth, which would result in semiconductors with a hundredth of the defects. Less defects implies less waste, greater performance and, ultimately, more powerful and efficient devices. But how much of promise and what about reality? The company has already put its first manufacturing satellite, the Forgestar-1. Successfully released in June 2025 On board a spacex rocket, this satellite, developed entirely in Wales, is the first British spacecraft sent to space with the purpose of producing new materials. It is a first demonstration mission: it will prove that the appropriate environment for space can be created and some production techniques will validate. NATO is knocking on the door. Space Forge got 30 million dollars In its first financing round, the largest series for a space technology in the United Kingdom. The most significant is Who leads The investment: NIF, the NATO Innovation Fund. The NIF highlighted “the independence of the long -term supply and resilience” chain as one of the reasons to invest in the startup. This capital injection will accelerate the development of the Forgestar-2, the next generation of its returnable manufacturing satellite. Microgravity as a service. The potential of microgravity manufacturing goes beyond semiconductors. Metal alloys can be impossible to mix on the earth or new compound materials. The pharmaceutical industry could also benefit greatly, with improvements in the useful life of medicines and administration methods. Space Forge aspires to a business model of “microgravadad-asservice“, an idea that somehow remembers the Arm licenses model. Instead of selling chips, it will rent spaces in its” orbital factories “so that others produce their own materials. In Xataka | Manufacturing materials for space is fine. Manufacturing materials in space is much better because everything changes

“The countries that do not manufacture their own drones will be vassal states”

July 12, 2025 by usatoday24

Elon Musk has put his cards on the table with A lapidary phrase: “We better discover how to build drones quickly or we will be doomed to be a vassal state.” Only China manufactures scale drones. And a certain electric car company could supply that need. The harsh reality. “The United States cannot currently manufacture its own drones,” said Musk At a results conference of Tesla. At first glance, it seems a classic exaggeration of the entrepreneur. American military suppliers such as Aerovironment (manufacturer of the Switchblade-600) or General Atomics (creator of the MQ-9 Reaper) design and produce drones. However, Musk does not refer to the ability to design these unmanned ships, but to the scale production and independence of the supply chain. In this sense, China’s dependence is overwhelming. Not only by the United States. China controls between 70 and 80% of the world market for commercial drones, which They are actively used in the Ukraine War. And critical components such as batteries, chips, cameras and engines come mostly from China. “China manufactures more drones on a day than the United States in a whole year,” Musk said. A 9 billion market. But Musk’s warning is not just a patriotic outburst, it also has a business reading. According to a Morgan Stanley reportthe drone and Evtols sector could reach a value of 9 billion dollars from here to 2050. It is a cake too large for the South African businessman not wanting a piece. The movement would charge special relevance at the current time of Tesla. The company recorded a drop of 71% of its net benefits during the first quarter of 2025, with a 52% sales collapse in a single month. The incipient deployment of robotaxis does not seem enough to convince shareholders, and bet on such a large market could be the solution. The pieces fit perfectly. Tesla already develops advanced robotics with humanoid robot optimus and autonomous systems such as autonomous computer -based computer driving. Spacex, your sister company, closes the circle with an unmatched knowledge of the aerospace sector. Musk itself showed the movement in the call to investors, speaking about Tesla’s future: “The future of the company is based primarily on large -scale autonomous cars and on a vast number of autonomous humanoid robots.” Drones fit as a glove in this vision of “robots with affordable artificial intelligence.” The pentagon is knocking on the door. China’s geostrategic dependence has not gone unnoticed in Washington. The pentagon has launched the “Replicator” initiativea 1 billion program to deploy thousands of military drones, selecting the Switchblade-600 Aerovironment as its first public purchase. In parallel, the Department of Defense has promoted a reform to eliminate the bureaucracy and achieve the “domain of UAS” by 2027. The message is clear: the United States shares Musk’s concern and is trying to recover the lost terrain to forced marches. Musk’s statement about the “Vasallos states” is, say, a play for several bands. Image | Flickr (DVIDS) In Xataka | China conquered us with its cheap drones. Now the price of its pieces is shooting for a reason that is not accidental

How to manufacture five million tires every year

June 16, 2025 by usatoday24

Between the Plaza Mayor of Valladolid and the Bibendum roundabout there are 4.1 kilometers and thousands of distance lives. Exactly those who work, have worked or work at the Michelin factory in the city of Pisuerga who, Like Renaultis one of the great engines of the city. The union with the city is so great that “in fact, the idea of calling Bibendum Glorieta at the entrance of the factory left the City Council. We had a generic name of industrial polygon. We wanted to change it and they themselves proposed the name,” they point to us from the company whose doors proudly look its famous Pet in a gigantic size. And it is that 2,200 workers pass every day (almost 1,700 of them are part of the workforce and another 500 work in maintenance or cleaning, among other functions) that keep the plant to full performance, with three eight -hour shifts that keep alive an annual production of five million tires. The objective is clear: fill the 50 trucks that come out every day. Valladolid is not one more factory for the company. It is one of the so -called “digital factories” for the high investment that has been made in all types of systems to carry out a controlled production to the extreme. This investment is manifested in the machinery that gives life to gums for cars, trucks and tractors that are manufactured there but also for the control of the entire assembly line. It is there, exactly, where our visit begins. A control tower We could say that the Valladolid machine room is the opposite of what we could imagine. The Castellanoleonese plant moves to the rhythm of two operators that supervise everything that happens locked in an office. By hand they have two computers with multiple monitorson the wall the screens are multiplied with cameras distributed throughout the facilities, colored notices of all kinds and a volume of numbers, names and information for profane eyes. Our guide points to a side wall in which we had not repaired given the communicative epilepsy we had in front of us. Simply, lines and bulbs. This worked before and thus still controls the management of the inventory or the situation of the machines in some plants. Valladolid, they explain to us, have some of the most advanced control and supervision systems and, in fact, have worked to implement some of the solutions in other plants of the company. The intention is clear: all unforeseen must be controlled at the time for the production chain to stop the minimum and essential. From a breakdown to the shortage of a product. We leave that luck of control tower to put the feet on the mainland. In front we have the compounds that give life to a rubber. They are so simple that they look like a children’s game. Rubber, a metallic ring, the fabric that structures the wheel and the rolling band. So simple that it seems a lie that we talk about a product capable of resisting the force exerted by a car that rolls more than 100 km/h, a truck that transports tons of merchandise or a tractor that, with the agricultural tires More advanced, it can circulate at 80 km/h. “In the United States it is legal for a large tractor to circulate at that speed.” What is unthinkable here “creates a problem when thinking about how to face wear. So we have a system so that, from the tractor itself, the tire pressure is increased so that a smaller surface touch the ground when it moves through the asphalt. And, on the contrary, you can lower the pressure to gain trace when it gets into the field,” they explain. This way of working, without leaving from the tractor cabin, is a solution like the one that They use the pilots in the Dakar Rally That, from inside the car, they put pressure if they want to gain speed on a fast track or remove it if they need to cross a dune since it requires greater contact with the ground to have greater traction capacity. From the rubber to the road This is the key to everything. With the hand, our guide holds the tire rubber. “Each rubber has its own mixture and is secret,” they point to us. It is about making the most balanced rubber for each vehicle and moment. Not only is it a matter of offering the best grip, you also have to get the slightest rolling resistance (lower consumption) or less noise. And those concepts are enemies of braking, traction and, of course, performance. Join those Three pillars In a single tire is the biggest challenge, prioritizing with each type of product one or another game. For example, a Michelin Primacy 5the tire that we have come to know and that is designed for great general performance and good behavior in summer, that a Michelin CrossClimatedesigned to replace the chains in case of Nevada, or a Michelin Pilot Sportfor sports driving. The heart of each has its own mixture of ingredients (they add up to 200,000 tons of rubber per year). And that mixture enters through a machine that is in charge of flattening and shaping the compound. The mixture is heated, flattened and forms the heart of the tire. That already ironed rubber is painted with brands to facilitate the subsequent process management. As if it were a very long plasticine without principle or end, the machines are cutting into strips and barrels serve to generate the rounded shape. This is where the metallic ring and textile meshes are inserted in charge of structuring and supporting the vehicle pressures. The heavier, the greater the resistance the mesh should exert, so in the specific models for SUV or electric cars, two meshes are usually included. Finally, everything is covered with a last layer that will form the rolling band. This is drawn in the process of Vulcanizedat which time the tire … Read more

China has been so close to dying with its solar panels that has made the only logical decision: manufacture less

June 15, 2025 by usatoday24

China is a colossus in the photovoltaic industry segment. They are not just installing huge parksbut dominate production with iron. So much that they have made The whole world depends on its technology and collapsed the price of the panels, drowning European and American manufacturers. The result of the crazy expansion was An internal price warbut after years of losses in the domestic market, they already propose a solution. Manufacture fewer panels. Storm. In 2020, China presented a zero emission plan Net for 2060. The goal is reduce your considerable carbon footprint and pollution and, for this, They marked That in 2030 there should be at least 1,200 GW of solar and wind capacity installed. The energy began to act, but companies from other sectors saw that there was a lucrative opportunity and got into the business. The result? Market saturation and such a beast production of the modules that were drowning foreign companies, but also to the domestic market. If 1,200 GW of renewables installed in 2030 were needed, only the solar installed in 2024 already surpassed The 880 GW. To the search for solutions. Production folded world demand And prices crashed, with huge companies in the sector asking the State for help To be able to continue in business. In that unsustainable situation for your own industry because They lost money with each salea kind of OPEC For Chinese photovoltaic, the Chinese photovoltaic industry association, or CPPO, with 33 of the main manufacturers signing a self -control commitment. The meeting was held in December last year and its executives are still looking for solutions after years of price wars. This week the Snec pv & is expo 2025 In Shanghai, in which manufacturers and companies around the world have met to evaluate the global situation. And, although we have to wait to see what measures they take, the Asian association of the photovoltaic industry – one of the organizers of the event – is clear that it cannot be followed in this situation. Or we refer to one or sink. As we read in South China Morning Post“The solar industry is not a zero -sum game,” said Zhu Gongshan, president of the association, in the inauguration speech. “We are in this together and the extreme cost of costs and fierce competition are not different from drinking poison to calm thirst,” he said. China installed About 278 GW of solar capacity last year, a figure that represents almost 60% of the new facilities worldwide. And it was the result of an overcapacity that contributed to a fall of 60% of the prices of the solar modules between 2020 and 2024. At the December meeting, one of the measures agreed by the main manufacturers was to respect a minimum recommended price to preserve the margins, and had a moderately positive result in early 2025, with a price rebound. But they don’t loosen the accelerator. The Cpia estimated Between 215 and 255 GW for this year, a cut in front of the amount of last year, but the accounts do not leave and the rhythm of facilities that are being kept is still very high: until April 30, 105 GW had been added, 75% more than what was installed in the same period of the previous year. It is estimated that it was because in January a large number of facilities were carried out and that they will fall 44% in the second half of 2025. One of the measures driven By the Government to reorganize the industry, it entered into force on June 1: sell production at market price instead of a guaranteed rate in the new solar plants. The antidote. “Instead of waiting for a cyclical recovery, we must face a disruptive restructuring in the sector,” said Zhu. And what are the proposals? Several are handled, such as focusing on improving collaboration between the government and companies to confront the offer through regulations or mergers. Another is that I know Bet on technological innovation for both panels and production chain, which will allow sustainable growth and higher benefit margins. That is, not to make the crazy panels that anchored to a technology that can be quickly outdated, but is cheap, but to improve quality and make fewer panels, maintaining a higher price and avoiding saturation. Change of mentality. Another problem is that there are too many things to consider. Those 33 Chinese companies of the CPPO are not the only ones that manufacture panels and there are those who may not respect self -control agreements. But, in addition, these internal problems are added tariff manids imposed by the United States. In the case of panels, Trump’s administration He imposed tariffs of More than 3,500% to the importation of panels from China and 60% to materials such as polisilicio, wafers and Chinese solar cells. China’s response, according to the president of one of the local businesses, should be internationalization. “Due to tariffs, it is no longer enough to export: we must locate production abroad,” said Gao Jifan, president of Trina Solar. We will see what happens, but try to stop that saturation of the market is significant, and that they talk about democrating production can generate a new battle from Western countries that we have already seen with the Chinese car: the one that try to attract the attention of manufacturers. Image | Huasun In Xataka | Solar panels that clean other solar panels: the photovoltaic industry has entered its self -replicant phase

USA says that Huawei will not be able to manufacture more than 200,000 AI chips in 2025. We know what the reason is

June 13, 2025 by usatoday24

Jeffrey Kessler, Undersecretary of Commerce for Industry and Security of the US Department of Commerce, has done a few hours ago This statement in Congress: “Our evaluation indicates that the production capacity of Chips Ascend de Huawei by 2025 It will be 200,000 units or lessand we anticipate that the majority or all of that production will be delivered to companies within China. “ Besides, Kessler pointed out that “China is investing A lot of money to increase your chips production of artificial intelligence (AI), as well as the capabilities of the GPUs it produces. For this reason it is essential not to have a false sense of security and understand that China is reaching the US rapidly. “These statements express unambiguously how worried the US administration is in the development of China undergoing China in the field of AI. China goes only between three and six months behind the US in AI This is What David Sacks arguesan IA and cryptocurrency expert who exercises as an advisor to the Government of Donald Trump in this area. In addition, it acts as a link between the government and the American technology industry. The White House has clarified the statements of Sacks clarifying that this guru referred to AI models, so that Chinese chips are between one and two years behind their US equivalents. Earlier this week Ren Zhengfei, the founder and general director of Huawei, declared that the GPU Ascend of this Chinese company are still A generation behind of the chips for the US. His reflection is aligned with what the US government defends, but it is important that we do not overlook that Huawei invests more than 25,000 million dollars annually in the development of its hardware for AI, so presumably it will not take long to match the benefits of the GPUs produced by NVIDIA or AMD. Blea performance of integration technologies used by SMIC to produce Huawei GPUs has a very wide margin of improvement In any case, the prediction of Jeffrey Kessler about the production capacity of avant -garde chips for Huawei is sustained on an irrefutable fact: the performance by wafer of the integration technologies used by the Chinese semiconductor manufacturer SMIC (Semiconductor manufacturing international corp) To produce the Huawei GPUs it has a very wide margin. SMIC already has the ability to manufacture 6 Nm integrated circuits, and soon it can also produce 5 Nm semiconductors, but is limited by the performance of the deep ultraviolet lithography equipment (UVP) you have in your possession. It is meritorious that SMIC and Huawei engineers have managed to refine their integrated circuit manufacturing processes what is necessary to be able to produce 5, 6 and 7 nm chips With ASML UVP teams, but a priori it is very unlikely that with these machines they will be able to go beyond the 3 Nm. And it is because the technique of Multiple patterningwhich is what they are using, imposes important limitations. A note: This strategy in broad strokes consists in transferring the pattern to the wafer in several passes with the purpose of increasing the resolution of the lithographic process. His problem is that he usually has an upward impact on the cost of chips and the decline in production capacity. For Huawei it is a big problem not to have the necessary technology to produce avant -garde semiconductors comparable to those who manufacture Intel, TSMC or Samsung, so it is working on the development of its own team of extreme ultraviolet photolithography (UVE). More information | Reuters In Xataka | Nvidia has to deal with the absolute distrust of several US legislators. His plan in China is in danger In Xataka | The US wants to end the chips for the Chinese that are sold abroad. And China knows how to defend oneself

In his obsession to torpedo the Chinese chips industry, the US wants to block an essential to manufacture them: the software, according to FT

May 29, 2025 by usatoday24

Hard setback for the Trump administration, which dawns this Thursday, May 29 with a clear response from the US International Trade Court to its tariff policy. The organism has declared generalized tariffs illegalafter considering that “they exceed any authority conferred on the president by the IEEPA (Law on Economic Powers in case of international emergency) “. In the middle of the storm, sources of Financial Times They declare that the United States Department of Commerce has begun to urge the main suppliers of electronic design automation software (EDA), in a new attempt to continue trying to knock each of the pillars that sustains the Chinese semiconductor industry. The new order. The Trump administration is starting to inform To the main national companies that offer the necessary software to design semiconductors that they must stop selling their services to Chinese groups. A measure that strengths the commercial war between the United States and China, at a time when the latter country is in full chips national production record and getting closer to develop their own 5 Nm lithography. The big names. There are three big names playing in the American industry: Cadence, Synopsy and Siemens. These three companies They monopolize the bulk of the Global EDA software market And they have been key for China to have been able to develop its current semiconductor industry. Preventing China from accessing this type of solutions is a zancadilla. These tools are essential to achieve advanced lithographic processes and expedite essentials such as design verification, performance simulation, energy consumption, and other key aspects to lead in the manufacture of any chip. Why is EDA software. In the manufacture of a modern semiconductor, tools that make it possible to automate the essential design and verification processes for its manufacture are necessary. Minimizing the margin of error and being especially effective in the refining of your behavior is key to leading this career. EDA software is a fundamental element to ensure that these designs meet the expectations of the manufacturing process, and allows to automate each of the phases of the same. The local industry. SMICthe spearhead in the Chinese semiconductor industry, It has been using Synopsys design suites For more than 20 years. After entering the Entity Listthe company did not lose access to these toolsonly access to them was difficult to be forced to establish license agreements to be able to use them. If Trump’s order is fulfilled, it will not be possible to renew these agreements or access to the software of these companies. Immediately after the intentions of the US administration, local companies such as Empyrean Technology, Primarius Techonologies and Semitonix, have seen the price of the action around 20%. These companies are specialized in the development of software solutions for semiconductors, and are some of the main names that sound after Trump’s threat. Even in the air. Although sources consulted by Financial Times affirm that the United States Industry and Security Office (BIS) is issuing this new directive through letters to companies, some like Synopsys have not taken long to uncheck. “We are aware of the rumors and speculation, but Synopsys has not received any official communication from the Bis. That is why we keep our annual forecasts unchanged, based on our current understanding of the export restrictions of the BIS and in the forecast of an interannual fall of the income from China.” Cadence and Siemens, for the moment, have not made statements about it. In Xataka | China prepares the mate to the US: it will have its own UVE lithography team to make chips in 2025

The US threatens Apple with a 25% tariff if you do not manufacture the iPhone there. It would continue to be more profitable in India

May 23, 2025 by usatoday24

Donald Trump has launched a direct threat to Apple: If you want to sell the iPhone in the United States, you must manufacture them there. Otherwise, you will have to assume a 25%tariff. This threat is part of its new commercial offensive, which also includes a 50% tariff to European products and measures against other great American technological ones. Apple, however, had already begun to reorder his production map. Tim Cook announced that “The majority” of the iPhone sold in the United States in 2025 will be manufactured in India. It is a message: Apple has no intention – not real capacity – to transfer its production to American soil in the short or medium term. In figures. Today, making an iPhone in China costs around $ 450. If that production was transferred to the United States, the cost per unit would shoot up to $ 1,400-1,600. And if the entire supply chain in US territory was also replicated, the final price to the consumer could overcome the 2,000 dollars.. Apple’s margin would not endure that blow. And consumers either. Yes, but. Moving production to India barely represents an increase from 10% to 15% compared to China. With an average sale price in the United States of about $ 1,000 to $ 1,200 per unit, Apple can absorb that difference, affect the customer or a mixture of both. Always without turning the iPhone into an unattainable luxury product. Trump’s 25% tariff, if applied, would be even more expensive. Between bambalins. India is more than a momentary escape route. Apple has been preparing for this turn for years. Foxconn has invested $ 1.5 billion to expand its plant in Chennai, and Tata Electronics has accelerated the construction of new assembly lines in Tamil Nadu. In 2024, 18% of the iPhone have already left India. In 2025 it will be 32%. Cook does not improvise: he knows that producing in the United States would have been reconstructing the infrastructure and technical specialization that Asia offers today. India is not China, but it has something that the United States does not: a young, cheap and trained population, as well as a government (that of Modi) willing to encourage every dollar invested. The context. Apple has already promised to invest 500,000 million dollars in the United States in the next four years. But it will do it in chips, data centers and artificial intelligence servers, not in iPhones factories. Trump knows it, and that’s why he attacks: investment is not enough. It wants production. And he wants to see her inside her borders. By the way, half Billón’s investment had a small print of Cantabria’s size: On the other hand, manufacturing iPhone is not riding furniture. It is a high precision operation, with thousands of components assembled in record times for workers in 12 -hour shifts. The United States does not have the ecosystem, nor labor, nor the right labor cost to replicate that. Trump can press, but cannot alter the economic laws of global logistics. And now what. Apple will play time. You can negotiate exceptions, delays or adjustments, as did in 2019 with Chinese tariffs. But if Trump fulfills his threat, he will have to choose between paying billions in tariffs … or raising prices. And there is the paradox: If Apple manufactured in the United States, the iPhone would cost 1,200 to more than 2,000 and even $ 3,000. If it remains in India, with 25% of Trump included, it would rise only to about 1,500. Manufacture in India, even penalized, is still more profitable than producing at home. In Xataka | Apple anticipates 900 million dollars of tariff impact. It is equivalent to the cost of producing almost two million iPhone Outstanding image | Xataka

The Chinese government praises the 3 Nm Xiaomi chip as a milestone on the road to self -sufficiency. The problem is that China does not manufacture it

May 21, 2025 by usatoday24

The Soc Xring O1 is objectively A milestone in the history of Xiaomi. And it is because it opens a par for this Chinese company that until now had remained closed. This chip It has been designed by Xiaomi itselfand the first device we will run into it will be The 15S Pro smartphone which will presumably be presented by this company at the event that will celebrate tomorrow. During the last days this SOC is caughting a lot of attention because the first performance tests that have seen the light reflect that their power will be only slightly lower than that of the Snapdragon 8 Elite of Qualcomm. It sounds very good, but this chip above all has a characteristic that we cannot ignore: it is manufactured using the integration technology of 3 Nm. China considers it a victory, but it is objectively a half victory South China Morning Post (SCMP), which is a Chinese media that belongs to Emporio Alibaba, has confirmed that the central television of China (CCTV) and the newspaper ‘Diario del Pueblo’, both closely linked to the Chinese Communist Party (PCCH), have praised the effort that Xiaomi has made during the development of the Soc Xring O1. In fact, this company has invested approximately 1.9 billion dollars in the tuning of this chip. Xiaomi has invested approximately 1.9 billion dollars in the tuning of this chip According to SCMP This semiconductor marks a milestone in China’s campaign towards technological self -sufficiency amid the export controls of the strictest advanced semiconductors in the United States. But This statement requires many nuances. In fact, it is reasonable to consider it a half truth. As I mentioned a few lines above the competitiveness of the socx xring O1 does not only reside in the design of its microarchitecture; also clearly plays in his favor the fact that he is manufactured in The 3 Nm node of TSMC. This Taiwanese integrated circuit manufacturer, The Major on the Planetcan produce chips for Xiaomi because this last company is not included in the “blacklist” of the US. However, it is evident that the integration technology used to manufacture this SOC does not belong to Xiaomi. It belongs to TSMC. And if the US Department of Commerce decides tomorrow to introduce Xiaomi into its list of vetoed entities will cease to access the Lithographic Vanguard nodes of TSMC. If this semiconductor had been manufactured by SMIC or another Chinese manufacturer of integrated circuits using a 3 Nm lithography the success of Xiaomi, and, as a consequence, of China, would be irrefutable. But for the moment there is no chips manufacturer in the country led by Xi Jinping that has the necessary technology for produce this type of avant -garde semiconductors. China will acquire this capacity in the medium termthere is no doubt about that, but the statement that argues that the soci -soup o1 “marks a milestone in China’s campaign towards technological self -sufficiency” is nothing more than a message from marketing sponsored by Chinese authorities In full confrontation with his American counterpart. Image | Xataka More information | SCMP In Xataka | China is about to have the ability to make 5 Nm chips, although it faces a difficult solution problem

Tariffs force Apple to manufacture US iPhone in India. It is not a problem: it is a tactic with many advantages and few fissures

April 25, 2025 by usatoday24

On April 12, the US government announced that semiconductors, some electronic devices and strategic components They are exempt from tariffs. This decision has appealed to the big US technology companies, But only temporarily. And it is that the administration led by Donald Trump has also anticipated something that we should not overlook: within a period not exceeding two months will announce to what tariffs Imported chips will be subjected. As we have explained this morning, at this Apple situation he has decided to transfer all the production of The iPhone that sells in the USA to India. This strategy will allow you to cushion the impact that the short -term tariffs will have on integrated circuits and electronic devices that come from China. Of course, a plan like this cannot be executed overnight. In fact, Apple aspires to get the 60 million iPhone that sells every year in the US come from India before 2026. India is not a casual destination India’s choice, as we can intuit, is not casual. It is currently the best option for Apple in a context in which it is being dedicated to China. To understand what India’s role is in Apple’s business, we necessarily have to investigate the component and services chain of the apple company, as well as in the role of two of its most important partners: Tsmc and Foxconn companies. In Xataka Iter has faced one of the great challenges of nuclear fusion: prevent plasma from 150 million ºC to destroy the reactor Currently TSMC manufactures the chips designed by Apple in its lithographic nodes of 5 and 3 nm The first of these companies, TSMC, manufactures the chips designed by Apple. The lithographic nodes currently used to produce integrated circuits for the Cupertino company are those of 5 and 3 Nm, and during the second half of 2025 the manufacture will also begin In the new 2 nm line. TSMC produces these semiconductors for Apple In Taiwan and the USA. Its distribution network in Asia is very robust, so for this company transfer a part of the chips that come from Taiwan to India instead of China does not represent a problem. In addition, and this is the most important thing, you are already doing it. Foxconn takes care of the assembly of most of Apple’s smartphones, and has plants in India in which This work is already carrying out. Pequeatron is also responsible for assembling a part of the iPhone from this Asian country. These two companies have a very robust electronic component supply chain in Asia, so with the support of Apple they can develop their production infrastructure in India to respond to the needs of this customer. The geographical proximity of China and India helps. {“Videid”: “X81Felr”, “Autoplay”: False, “Title”: “A future without mole in China the industry changes the paradigm and we explain why”, “Tag”: “”, “Duration”: “182”} Apple would have a difficult problem to solve if it was forced to transfer all the production of Asia to another continent, but derive from one Asian country to another in which it already has a consolidated infrastructure is perfectly assumed. And in current circumstances it is evident that it is the best option. Even so, This strategy has a fissure with which you will have to deal with this plan: the manufacturing infrastructure that has deployed in China side with Foxconn will be underutilized, so that investment will have a much shorter route than the initially planned. Image | Apple More information | Financial Times In Xataka | China backs down: Loongson processors will finally sell to Russia whose export had prohibited (Function () {Window._js_modules = Window._js_modules || {}; var headelement = document.getelegsbytagname (‘head’) (0); if (_js_modules.instagram) {var instagramscript = Document.Createlement (‘script’); }}) (); – The news Tariffs force Apple to manufacture US iPhone in India. It is not a problem: it is a tactic with many advantages and few fissures It was originally posted in Xataka by Juan Carlos López .

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