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China Slams Dutch for Hard Line in Standoff Over Nexperia Chips
The standoff has prompted automakers and suppliers to slow production over concerns about shortages of Nexperia components, including transistors and logic chips.
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Balancing Centralized Manufacturing Data and Distributed AI Agents
It’s clear why no manufacturing executive wants to bet everything on a pure data model. Centralized architectures are robust, but can be slow and reactive.
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Walmart to Use RFID Labels to Track Fresh Food Inventory
Walmart plans to use RFID labels to provide digital use-by dates to monitor the freshness of its offerings across its meat, bakery and deli departments.
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Supply Chain Innovation 2025: On the Rocky Road to Resilience
Beyond hunkering down in firefighting mode, it’s just as important that companies take a longer view of things.
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Whirlpool’s North America Sales Rise Despite Tariff Uncertainty
Whirlpool, which manufactures almost 80% of its major product lines for the U.S. market domestically, could eventually benefit from tariffs if import-driven competition eases.
Whirlpool dryers on display at a store in Peru, Illinois. Photographer: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg
China to Suspend Some Rare Earth Curbs, U.S. Chip Firm Probes
The U.S. said Beijing will take steps to allow the Chinese facilities of Dutch chipmaker Nexperia BV to resume shipments, easing worries about chip shipments that threatened auto production.
Xi Jinping and Donald Trump during a bilateral meeting in Busan on Oct. 30. Photographer: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images
Trump Touts Rare-Earth Win in Talks Showing Xi’s Strong Hand
In effect, the U.S. has now accepted a negotiating link between its own curbs on high-tech exports, like AI chips, and China’s rare earth controls.
Donald Trump and Xi Jinping shake hands as they leave after their talks in Busan. Photographer: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images
Amazon Reports Results Better than Expected
The results were buoyed by the enduring strength of consumer spending online, despite tariffs and an uneven economy, and by a resurgence in cloud computing.
New York, New York. Photo: iStock.com/krblokhin
Just When You Think It’s Safe to Get Behind the Wheel, Tariffs Strike Again
Automakers have been quietly absorbing billions in tariff costs, but consumers could soon face a wave of price hikes on new cars and more.
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Podcast | Can the U.S. Ever Stop Relying on China for Critical Minerals?
The United States’ dependence on basic minerals from China and other foreign sources is a huge problem, both from an economic and defense perspective.
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From Prototype to Production at Global Scale — Without Missing Quality Targets
A successful global supply chain new-product launch depends equally on engineering expertise and diplomatic capabilities.
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Tariffs Drive Volkswagen to First Quarterly Loss in 5 Years
Volkswagen estimates that Trump administration tariffs will cost the company more than $5.7 billion by the end of the year.
A Volkswagen plant in Mosel, Germany. Photo: iStock / aquatarkus
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