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Here's your morning TNB Tech Minute for Tuesday, January 27th.

I'm Julie Chang for the Wall Street Journal.

Tesla closed the year with lower sales in Europe, as Chinese auto giant BID continued to grow.

According to the European Automobile Manufacturers Association, new car registrations for Tesla models slumped 20% on year to about 35,000 units in December.

Annually, Tesla sales dropped 27% to roughly 238,000 units.

In contrast, according to a CEA data, registrations for China's BYD in Europe more than tripled to over 187,000 for the whole year.

Globally, Tesla sales fell 9% in 2025.

The company has lost its crown as the world's leading EV maker to BYD.

Micron Technology plans to invest about $24 billion in Singapore over the next 10 years, as it

expands its manufacturing facility to meet surging demand for memory chips amid the AI boom.

According to the country's Economic Development Board, Micron manufactures about 98% of its top-end flash memory chips,

known as NAND, in Singapore. The chip giant said today it broke ground on an advanced

wafer fabrication facility located within the company's existing NAN manufacturing complex there.

Micron said Waifer output is scheduled to begin in the second half of

2008. And Pinterest is laying off about 15% of its workforce or roughly 700 jobs as part of a

restructuring aim that pivoting resources toward higher growth areas such as AI. The social media

platform makes money through advertising,

and the company has been hurt by a recent pullback in spending among larger companies. Its CFO said

in November that advertising pricing declined 24% in the third quarter. Shares have lost roughly

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