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For Bosch, China is becoming the key market for electric cars
Stuttgart The Bosch technology group maintained its earning power in the past year despite a difficult environment. According to preliminary figures from Friday, the return on sales was just above…
New ZF boss sets first sign with chip factory
Ensdorf The new ZF boss, Holger Klein, had just one month in office and made the biggest appearance imaginable. Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) flew to Ensdorf in Saarland on Wednesday.…
Infineon figures: Q1 profit increases by 59 percent
Jochen Hanebeck The Infineon boss promises a higher margin in the current financial year. (Photo: dpa) Munich Infineon is growing rapidly and expects good business in the coming months. CEO…
Chipmaker increases profit by 59 percent and raises forecast
Jochen Hanebeck The Infineon boss promises a higher margin in the current financial year. (Photo: dpa) Munich Infineon is growing rapidly and expects good business in the coming months. CEO…
Chipmaker increases profit by 59 percent and raises forecast
Jochen Hanebeck The Infineon boss promises a higher margin in the current financial year. (Photo: dpa) Munich Infineon is growing rapidly and expects good business in the coming months. CEO…
Big step for Saarland, small step for Europe
SIC wafer Stefan Hain, Head of Semiconductor Development at ZF, holds one of the intended products up to the camera. (Photo: dpa) The importance for Saarland and the companies involved,…
How Europe can keep up in the race for factories
Ensdorf, Munich, Berlin It is a respectable success for Germany and Europe in the race with the USA to set up chip factories – but it is bought at a…
ZF & Wolfspeed expect subsidies for factory in Saarland
Stephan von Schuckmann (left), Gregg Lowe The ZF manager and the Wolfspeed boss are hoping for high subsidies for their planned chip factory in Saarland. Stuttgart, Munich The US chip…
ZF & Wolfspeed expect subsidies for factory in Saarland
Visualization of the planned chip factory Wolfspeed and ZF want to build a state-of-the-art factory for energy-saving chips on the Ensdorf site. (Photo: Wolfspeed) Stuttgart, Munich The US chip manufacturer…
Wolfspeed wants to announce the construction of a chip factory in Saarland today
Former power plant Ensdorf in Saarland The world’s largest factory for semiconductors made of silicon carbide is to be built on the site. (Photo: dpa) Munich It’s going to be…
Criticism of private jets puts entrepreneurs in trouble
A Gulfstream G450 aircraft is parked in Stuttgart Environmental groups and climate activists criticize the sharp increase in the use of private jets because of the emissions. (Photo: imago images/CHROMORANGE)…
Criticism of private jets puts entrepreneurs in trouble
Frankfurt The World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos is the meeting place for the world’s economic and political decision-makers. And for private jets. Around 500 flights are attributed to the…
Cloud platform for the automotive industry: Catena-X is taking shape
BMW plant in Dingolfing The automotive industry wants to network more closely digitally – also for reasons of sustainability. (Photo: BMW) Munich The German automotive industry wants to network more…
Steel trader Klöckner offers customers CO2 certificates for almost every product
Dusseldorf The largest independent steel trader in Europe creates CO2 transparency for almost all 200,000 products in the group portfolio. “Seven percent of global CO2 emissions come from steel production…
Start-up helps with chip shortages and overstocks
Frankfurt The timing was ideal when Noureddine Seddiki started his brokerage firm Sand & Silicon in spring 2021. During the corona pandemic, companies around the world scrambled for the scarce…
High losses – bad omen for new plants in Magdeburg
Munich The losses are huge, sales are falling sharply: Intel is doing badly and the prospects for the coming months are bleak. This is not good news for the billions…
Europe’s most valuable tech group promises rapid growth
Munich Orders are still being placed with the Dutch chip supplier ASML: “Our order backlog is 40 billion euros, we’ve never had that before,” said ASML boss Peter Wennink on…
Wolfspeed and ZF plan chip factory in Saarland for more than two billion euros
Stuttgart/Munich The US group Wolfspeed is building the world’s largest plant for silicon carbide (SiC) semiconductors in Saarland. The auto parts supplier ZF has a minority stake in the factory.…
Car manufacturers and suppliers facing a challenging fiscal year
car production The order books of the car manufacturers, which are well filled as a result of the lack of chips, will be processed in 2023. (Photo: Imago) Dusseldorf, Stuttgart…
Samsung, Sony and BMW are fighting for the car of the future
Las Vegas The stage at the Las Vegas convention center is darkened. Then suddenly two headlights flicker on. A little later, at the leading technology trade fair CES, a vehicle…