Apple iPhone maker, Foxconn, is automating its factories in three phases — and it has already completed the automation process at some of its plants, Dai Jia-peng, general manager in Foxconn’s Automation Technology Development Committee Phase 1. Factories are equipped with robots at individual workstations. Those robots will handle tasks that are either too dangerous …
EDF Energy has announced a ten-year life extension for Dungeness B nuclear reactor. The two-unit advanced gas-cooled reactor (AGR) plant will continue generating electricity until 2028. The company has also signed new contracts supporting the ongoing operations of its UK fleet. Dungeness B’s two 545 MWe AGR reactors started up in 1983 and 1985 respectively. …
Fujitsu torus network (right) Fujitsu Sparc VIIIfx chip (left) Fujitsu and Japan’s Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, known as RIKEN, announced that RIKEN has decided to employ a new system configuration with a scalar processing architecture for its next-generation supercomputer. Despite the NEC/Hitachi withdraw, the plan is to get a “partially operational system” by …