Foxconn, NVIDIA & BASF: Top Manufacturing News This Week
5th June
Foxconn, the world's largest electronics manufacturer, is collaborating with US technology company Intel to accelerate the development and deployment of ânext-generationâ AI infrastructure and intelligent computing platforms.
The collaboration also aims to accelerate the large-scale deployment of AI-driven technologies across edge and physical AI applications.
The companies aim to jointly develop AI systems that will be used in AI data centres as well as in factories, smart cities and in robotics.
1st June
TSMC is using NVIDIA's CUDA-X libraries and AI models to accelerate its workloads across lithography, simulation, defect detection and other processes
NVIDIA has announced that TSMC is using its accelerated computing and AI to advance semiconductor design and manufacturing.
It says this helps to improve turnaround time, energy efficiency, yield and operational productivity in fabs.
Global semiconductor demand is skyrocketing, driven primarily by an need for AI infrastructure, data centres and advanced memory.
4th June
Shiv Trisal of Databricks explains how manufacturing AI is moving from strategy presentations into production, and the data architecture making it possible
For many industrial businesses, AI remains an aspiration rather than an operational reality.
Shiv Trisal, Global Industrials GTM Lead at Databricks, asks: "How do we go from AI strategy being on a PowerPoint to being actually used in production, making real decisions alongside humans?"
4th June
BASF and Encina have entered into an agreement to support a circular chemical manufacturing facility on the Gulf Coast of the US
BASF, the largest chemical producer in the world, has entered a strategic collaboration agreement with Encina Development Group, a producer of circular chemicals derived from waste streams.
Encinaâs agreement with BASF supports the development of its planned circular chemicals manufacturing facility on the Gulf Coast in the US.
4th June
The US manufacturing sector expanded in May 2026 for the fifth consecutive month, say executives in the latest Institute for Supply Management (ISM) Manufacturing PMI Report.
The growth in manufacturing comes despite many industries reporting an increased cost in raw materials, including paper chemical products, computer and electronic products, primary metals, machinery as well as food, beverage and tobacco products.
The report also noted that delivery performance of suppliers to manufacturing organisations was slower in May for the sixth consecutive month.
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Jensen Huang
Founder and CEO
Lip-Bu Tan
Chief Executive Officer
Shiv Trisal
Global Industrials GTM Lead
Young Liu
CEO (Chairman)
