Technology

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is operating without a Senate-confirmed leader again, leaving a void atop the agency tasked with preventing road injuries and deaths even as the number of fatalities moves sharply in the wrong direction.

President Joe Biden is poised to sign an executive order Sept. 12 to help expand U.S. biomanufacturing and reduce reliance on China.

RALEIGH, N.C. — A North Carolina-based semiconductor company announced Sept. 9 it will build a $5 billion manufacturing plant in its home state to produce silicon carbide wafers, which is emerging as a favored part for renewable energy products and electric vehicles.

President Joe Biden attended the groundbreaking of Intel Corp.’s new semiconductor manufacturing facility outside Columbus, Ohio, touting one of his legislative wins in a crucial midterm state.

Trailer maker Wabash announced a sub-brand product portfolio called Acutherm, a proprietary system of components, products and solutions.

Technology adoption in the trucking industry has given freight transportation companies access to an abundance of data. The question now is how best to use it.

Trucking and logistics firms can have connected workflows at the enterprise level by using modern TMS platforms with cloud-based infrastructure.

For com­panies that have imple­mented on-premise software systems to run mission-­critical business processes, it’s not always so simple to take advantage of the benefits of modern cloud architecture.

Tesla Inc. is plotting a potential lithium refinery on the gulf coast of Texas, a move that would bolster the company’s battery production efforts and further expand its footprint in the state.

Chip delivery times shrank again in August, a sign the global shortage is easing further, but some types of semiconductors remain hard to find.