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Inside Foxconn’s empty buildings, empty factories, and empty promises in Wisconsin

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Months after the 2018 groundbreaking, the company was racing to hire the 260 people needed to receive the first tranche of payments from the lucrative subsidy package passed by then-Gov. Scott Walker. Recruiters were told to hit the number but given little in the way of job descriptions. Soon, the office began to fill with people who had nothing to do. Many just sat in their cubicles watching Netflix and playing games on their phones.

Source: Inside Foxconn’s empty buildings, empty factories, and empty promises in Wisconsin

System76 Linux computer maker offers a sneak peek into its new manufacturing facility

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Exactly when these new computers both designed and manufactured by System76 will become available for purchase is anyone’s guess. Quite frankly, based on the System76’s blog post, it seems they are still at very early stages. With that said, it will be interesting to see what is born inside that factory in Colorado.

Source: System76 Linux computer maker offers a sneak peek into its new manufacturing facility

3-D Printing Will Soon Become a Routine Manufacturing Tool

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Additive manufacturing—the industrial version of 3-D printing—is already used to make some niche items, such as medical implants, and to produce plastic prototypes for engineers and designers. But the decision to mass-produce a critical metal-alloy part to be used in thousands of jet engines is a significant milestone for the technology. And while 3-D printing for consumers and small entrepreneurs has received a great deal of publicity, it is in manufacturing where the technology could have its most significant commercial impact

via 3-D Printing Will Soon Become a Routine Manufacturing Tool | MIT Technology Review.

Research discovery could revolutionise semiconductor manufacture

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Instead of starting from a silicon wafer or other substrate, as is usual today, researchers have made it possible for the structures to grow from freely suspended nanoparticles of gold in a flowing gas.

via Research discovery could revolutionise semiconductor manufacture – Lund University.

The structures are referred to as nanowires or nanorods. The breakthrough for these semiconductor structures came in 2002 and research on them is primarily carried out at Lund, Berkeley and Harvard universities.

Russia reveals shiny state secret: It’s awash in diamonds

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They claim the Popigai site is unique in the world, thus making Russia the monopoly proprietor of a resource that’s likely to become increasingly important in high-precision scientific and industrial processes

via Russia reveals shiny state secret: It’s awash in diamonds – CSMonitor.com.

Russian scientists say the news is likely to change the shape of global diamond markets, although the main customers for the super-hard gems will probably be big corporations and scientific institutes.

New manufacturing technology enables vertical 3D NAND transistors, higher capacity SSDs

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According to the folks at Applied Materials, trying to build 3D NAND structures in real life would be like trying to dig a one-kilometer-deep, three-kilometer-long trench with walls exactly three meters apart, through interleaved rock strata — and that’s before we discuss gate trenches or the staircases. Conventional etching systems deal with aspect ratios of 3:1 – 4:1, 3D etching requires an aspect ratio of 20:1 or more — and that’s not easy to pull off.

via New manufacturing technology enables vertical 3D NAND transistors, higher capacity SSDs | ExtremeTech.