Amid the debate about how the United States can bring more manufacturing of semiconductors back to the country and worries it has become a national security concern, a surprising group […]
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Back to news homeU.S. Retakes Top Spot in Supercomputer Race
The United States has regained a coveted speed crown in computing with a powerful new supercomputer in Tennessee, a milestone for the technology that plays a major role in science, […]
Broadcom to Acquire VMware in $61 Billion Enterprise Computing Deal
Broadcom, the semiconductor giant, said on Thursday that it had agreed to buy the software company VMware in a transaction valued at $61 billion that would reshuffle the vast market […]
Another Firing Among Google’s A.I. Brain Trust, and More Discord
Less than two years after Google dismissed two researchers who criticized the biases built into artificial intelligence systems, the company has fired a researcher who questioned a paper it published […]
Few Cars, Lots of Customers: Why Autos Are an Inflation Risk
Mr. McCabe does not think that car inventory will ever fully rebound: Dealers and automakers have learned that they make more money by effectively making cars to order and running […]
How Intel Makes Semiconductors in a Global Shortage
Some feature more than 50 billion tiny transistors that are 10,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair. They are made on gigantic, ultraclean factory room floors that […]
Patrick Gelsinger is Intel’s True Believer
A few days later, he got a surprise call from Mr. Grove. The Hungarian-born executive, then Intel’s president who later wrote the management book “Only the Paranoid Survive,” had built […]
Chip Errors Are Becoming More Common and Harder to Track Down
Imagine for a moment that the millions of computer chips inside the servers that power the largest data centers in the world had rare, almost undetectable flaws. And the only […]
Intel to Invest at Least $20 Billion in New Chip Factories in Ohio
Intel has selected Ohio for a new chip manufacturing complex that would cost at least $20 billion, ramping up an effort to increase U.S. production of computer chips as users […]
Toyota Topped G.M. in U.S. Car Sales in 2021
Automakers are also contending with the transition to electric cars and trucks. Many companies are spending tens of billions of dollars designing battery-powered models and building plants to produce them. […]