SRI International is establishing the Quantum Manufacturing Engineering Center to accelerate manufacturing of scalable, high-performance quantum components and systems to drive significant growth in the U.S. quantum industry. The National Institute of Standards and Technology plans to make an initial investment of $20 million in the center’s activities.
The Swedish government granted Leading Edge Materials a 25-year mining lease for what the company calls one of the most significant rare earth deposits in Europe. The company’s release says that the Norra Kärr project has “the capacity to supply all of Europe’s annual dysprosium requirements alongside meaningful terbium and yttrium production.”
BMW Group’s manufacturing plant in San Luis Potosi will ideally produce electric vehicles and high-voltage batteries by 2027 through the integration of the Neue Klasse architecture, the company’s platform to standardize electrification technologies across global operations. The facility will position Mexico as a key hub within BMW Group’s global electrification strategy.
The Korea Cement Association signed a cooperation agreement with Korea Conformity Laboratories to accelerate the development of low-carbon cement technologies and strengthen quality competitiveness.
Korea’s LG Energy Solution Ltd. said that its joint venture with Honda Motor has begun mass production of lithium-ion battery cells for energy storage systems at the battery plant in Jeffersonville, Ohio.
Micron Technology Inc. and Ford Motor Company announced a long-term strategic customer agreement to strengthen the supply of memory and storage solutions supporting Ford’s next-generation vehicle production.
Allied Mineral Products LLC announced a series of executive promotions and organizational changes. Paul Jamieson, previously president and CEO, was promoted to CEO and vice chairman. John Halsted, formerly executive vice president of sales and affiliates, was promoted to president of international. Todd Henry, previously corporate vice president of finance and CFO, was promoted to president of North America.
A little over a year ago, President Trump set an ambitious goal: He wanted to see U.S. companies build at least three new experimental nuclear reactors by July 4, 2026, the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Two companies have already reached the goal of switching on their reactor, and other companies are getting close.
Finland tested a new system to help detect threats to subsea cables before incidents happen, after scores of breaches in the past years crippled critical underwater infrastructure. The system is based on distributed acoustic sensing.
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission approved new rules that boost cybersecurity regulations for the nation’s emergency alert systems and update security rules for the nation’s undersea cables. The rules amount to basic—but still critical—cyber hygiene practices for users accessing and updating the systems.
Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Ltd. unveiled the world’s first real-world validated sodium-ion energy storage solution in Munich, Germany. Cumulative shipments of the TENER Sodium Energy Storage System are expected to reach 1 GWh by the end of 2026, with global deliveries to begin in June 2027.
A new chip architecture from IBM can integrate nearly twice the transistor density of the company’s previous generation of chip technology. The resulting improvement in chip compute performance and energy efficiency comes from what IBM describes as the “world’s first sub-1 nanometer chip technology” for artificial intelligence data centers.
The LineShine computer at China’s National Supercomputing Center in Shenzhen, China, displaced top-ranked U.S. computer El Capitan in the latest version of the TOP500 ranking. The computer achieved 2.198 exaflops, meaning it can perform more than 2 quintillion calculations per second.
