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MT:
GM's chip shortage at Kokomo GM factory! :)

SilverSolder:

--- Quote from: MT on November 23, 2022, 04:00:45 am ---
--- Quote ---UK Government deems Nexperia’s acquisition of Newport Wafer Fab a “risk to national security”
Pursuant to section 26 of the National Security and Investment Act 2021, the UK Government’s Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has made a final order after its review of the acquisition on 5 July 2021 by Netherlands-based Nexperia BV of an additional 86% of the shares of Newport Wafer Fab (NWF, now Nexperia Newport Ltd, or NNL), taking its stake to 100%.

The order determines that the acquisition constitutes a trigger event under section 8(2)(c) of the Act. Specifically, the acquisition by Nexperia (a subsidiary of China-based Wingtech Technology Co Ltd) presents a risk to national security relating to:
--- End quote ---

https://www.semiconductor-today.com/news_items/2022/nov/nexperia-newport-181122.shtml

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Anything that competes with existing big companies turns out to be a "risk to national security"  -  the lobbyists are doing a great job! :D

MT:
Foxconn Apple Iphone workers as mentioned a week ago was angry but today they are really, really angry, so angry
they fight on the streets with police and Covid 19 workers bashing them with wooden planks and trowing steel barriers!  :box:

Video:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1595463176719826946





SiliconWizard:
 :-DD (sorry not funny, but a bit)

tom66:
China's "zero COVID" policy really going well then.

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