The southern Indian city of Hyderabad is set to be the global hub for manufacturing the wings of the F-16. On Tuesday, an executive from Lockheed Martin stated, it will build wings for its F-16 combat fighter jet with India’s Tata Advanced Systems Limited. Lockheed is bidding for $15 billion contract, to supply the Indian…
Analysts covering the sector opine Huawei will have to either reduce its margins or raise prices. Huawei Technology Co’s upcoming launch of a solar-panel control device in the United States is expected to collide with the Trump administration’s new tariffs on Chinese electronics. As a result this is likely to undermine the product that analysts…
SK Hynix, the world’s second biggest memory chip producer, will boost NAND memory chip production by more than 30% in the second half of this year. NAND memory chips are easier to assemble than DRAM chips. On Thursday, South Korean chipmaker SK Hynix Inc posted a record second quarter profit which underpins a continuation in…
LG is bent on migrating towards making next-generation OLED panels and has slashed investments in its LCD business, which incidentally accounts for nearly 90% of its revenues. South Korea’s LG Display Co Ltd, a key supplier of panels for Apple, posted its second consecutive loss citing poor panel prices while slashing its investment plans by…
Despite facing manufacturing hell, Elon Musk, Tesla’s CEO, stated he is confident that the company will be able to meet and surmount challenges in the production of the Model 3 and that the company will be profitable in either the third or the fourth quarter of this year. In a significant development that will have…
Tesla has hired Snap Inc’s Stuart Bowers who will now be its vice president of engineering. Electric carmaker Tesla Inc stated it has hired Stuart Bowers, Snap Inc’s vice president of monetization engineering, as its VP of engineering. He will work on Tesla’s Autopilot software and other projects. In recent days, several senior executives have…
Although a few of its systems were affected by malware, due to timely remedial measures neither deliveries nor production was affected by the intrusion. Boeing Co’s vice president stated the planemaker had “detected a limited intrusion of malware” that had affected “a small number of systems”. Media reports that malware had caused disruptions in Boeing…
Here is how Amazon.com is using original video programming as a vehicle to boost its exclusive Prime shopping club. For the very first time, documents from Amazon.com Inc reveal how the world’s biggest online retailer’s bet on original video content has paid off: by early 2017 its TV series have drawn more than 5 million…
Although it lags slightly behind its peer, Boeing, citing its record backlog, Airbus sees itself delivering more planes than its rival in 2020. On Monday, Airbus stated it is just three years away from gaining a leadership role in the commercial aircraft market by producing more aircrafts than its peer Boeing. Having disclosed the number…
The development marks the birth of a green, cost effective long-haul trucking industry. Next month, Tesla Inc is set to unveil a big-rig electric truck which will have a mile range of 200 to 300 miles. The development is a sign that Tesla is eyeing the commercial freight market as it aggressively ramps up the…
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