Cleaning up transport will help the world’s third-biggest emitter of greenhouse gases meet its target of becoming net carbon zero by 2070.

Most of the recent talk surrounding high-tech manufacturing supply chains has been about the severe shortage of microprocessors. But equally important is the supply of printed circuit boards.

Swedish home-appliance manufacturer Electrolux is undertaking steep cost cuts that will target its supply chain and production following a warning of a sharp drop in demand.

Tata Group is in talks with a Taiwanese supplier to Apple Inc. to establish an electronics manufacturing joint venture in India, seeking to assemble iPhones in the South Asian country.

Mercedes-Benz AG and Rivian Automotive Inc. are partnering to jointly build electric vans (EVs) in Europe, a potential win-win for an established manufacturer wanting to share costs, and an inexperienced company struggling to scale up.

U.S. tech companies that receive federal funding will be barred from building "advanced technology" facilities in China for 10 years, the Biden administration has said.

Industry and the U.S. government alike are responding to the gap between semiconductor supply and demand.

Nvidia says the U.S. government requires a new license, effective immediately, to address the risk of chips being "used in, or diverted to a 'military end use'... in China and Russia."

Ideas about how to more efficiently “re-commerce” returned goods into the supply chain seemed the most fresh and fruitful up for discussion on the first day of Home Delivery World in Philadelphia, Aug. 31.

Passage of the CHIPS Act came at an opportune time, as chip manufacturers had suspended plans to build new fabrication plants  in the U.S., saying they wouldn’t proceed without U.S. government subsidies.