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SamMobile has affiliate and sponsored partnerships. If you buy something through one of these links, we may earn a commission. Last updated: May 18th, 2022 at 11:45 UTC+02:00 Samsung’s largest chip manufacturing facility is in Pyeongtaek, a city located about 70 kilometers south of the capital Seoul. It also happens to be one of the world’s largest semiconducting manufacturing facilities. The facilities are spread across a 289,000 square meter site which is about the same size as 400 football fields. Samsung may be…

Technology isn’t perfect, including our gaming systems. It’s always terrible to get really into a game, only to have it freeze right before you hit that checkpoint. Recently, it seems these problems have been amplified by the age of the system. These frustrating experiences happen to many PlayStation 4 users, and there’s a relatively simple way to fix them: A complete factory reset. Further reading How to factory reset your PS4A complete factory reset for the PlayStation 4 is a pretty…

The world’s richest man Elon Musk will visit Indonesia in November this year. After Tesla reportedly wrapped up its operations in India even after the government’s push to open a factory in this country. The Indonesian government has approached Musk to set up a world-class electric battery industry in the country. Indonesia has large reserves of nickel. Indonesian President Joko Widodo met Musk in Starbase, which is the rocket propulsion production facility of SpaceX. The Indonesian head of state was visiting the USA…

Renesas Electronics said it would spend JPY90 billion to reopen its Kofu Factory in Kai City, Yamanashi Prefecture, closed in October 2014, as a 300mm wafer fab capable of manufacturing power semiconductors. Operations would start in 2024. Once at full production, the Kofu factory will double the supplier’s total production capacity of power semiconductors. The factory previously operated both 150mm and 200mm wafer fabrication lines.…

A recent animal study shows gene editing reverses brain genetic reprogramming caused by adolescent binge drinking.Gene editing reverses brain genetic reprogramming caused by adolescent binge drinking.Gene editing may be a potential treatment for anxiety and alcohol use disorder in adults who were exposed to binge drinking in their adolescence, according to the findings of an animal study published on May 4, 2022, in the journal Science Advances.The study was issued by researchers from the University of Illinois Chicago…

Struggling EV company Lordstown completed the sale of its Ohio factory to Foxconn, the Taiwanese company that assembles Apple’s iPhone. The factory, which sold for $230 million, will now become the site of a joint venture between the two companies. The deal was originally set to close last month, but Lordstown kept pushing back the deadline. If the sale wasn’t completed before May 18th, the company would have had to pay back the $200 million that Foxconn put down as a deposit — an amount that Lordstown has said it…

Workers install door hinges to the body shell of a prototype Endurance electric pickup truck on June 21, 2021 at Lordstown Motors' assembly plant in Ohio.Michael Wayland / CNBCEmbattled electric vehicle start-up Lordstown Motors said Wednesday it has closed a $230 million deal to sell its Ohio factory to Taiwanese contract manufacturer Hon Hai Technology Group, better known as Foxconn.Lordstown's shares surged more than 35% in after-hours trading following the news.The deal to sell the plant, a former General Motors…

Amid rumors of a new EV factory in Georgia, Hyundai confirms plans for a new electric car factory in the US, but it’s not clear where yet. The Korean automaker has started production of electric vehicles in the US starting with the Genesis GV70 EV at its factory in Alabama. But Hyundai also announced $7.4 billion investments in the US with a focus on electrification, and a new EV factory has been expected for the brand on US soils. Now there have been rumors that Hyundai has been in discussions with state…

Quanta Computer is thought to be the sole manufacturer of MacBook Pro 14 and 16 laptops for Apple. With these machines primarily coming out of this solitary ODM's Shanghai facilities, supplies have been hit very hard by China's lockdowns and related efforts to stop the spread of Covid-19. According to Taiwan's United News Network, Quanta's pandemic-affected production lines have led to delays of up to two months from customer order to delivery of the laptops mentioned.We reported on laptop supplies being battered by…

BEIJING—Fast-growing car maker BYD Co. 1211 -4.11% is being investigated by local authorities in the central Chinese city of Changsha, after people living near one of the company’s biggest factories raised concerns about its emissions and complained of health problems.The city’s government said Sunday that it has formed a team to look into gas emissions from BYD’s plant, “in response to the public’s feedback.” It has roped in third-party testing agencies and other…