Taiwan, which produces more than 60 percent of global semiconductors and roughly 90 percent of the world's most advanced chips, insists it gained this leadership position by investing in the tech when other countries didn't. Former Intel chief Pat Gelsinger supports this view, publicly stating a couple of years ago that countries like Korea, Taiwan, and China put in place long-term industrial policies and investment in chipmaking, while the US and European nations failed to do the same.
Now, the Bolt is backbut as expected, it won't be sticking around for very long. And now we know just how long. According to Bloomberg, GM officials have decided to end production of the heavily updated 2027 Chevrolet Bolt after just about a year and a half, in order to free up production space at its Fairfax, Kansas factory for a gas-powered Buick crossover.
With AI predicted to balloon to a $4.8 trillion market by 2033, Farley warned the U.S. has overlooked the labor needed to build and sustain data centers and manufacturing facilities. While President Donald Trump imposed sweeping tariffs to revive factory jobs, there continues to be recruitment and retention problems in U.S. manufacturing.
American manufacturing faces a critical knowledge crisis as factories return home through reshoring efforts. While the U.S. produces just 1.5 submarines per year, China manufactures over 10 monthly, highlighting the urgent need to modernize production processes that still rely on printed PDFs, outdated SOPs, and tribal knowledge locked in retiring technicians' heads. Dirac addresses this challenge with BuildOS, an AI-powered platform that automatically generates high-quality, animated, interactive work instructions for complex mechanical assemblies directly from CAD files.
