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Tag: Computer Chips

How Silicon Chips Rule the World

When I first arrived in Taiwan as a college student in the summer of 1973, there was no ambiguity whatsoever about the American role...

China Has Leapfrogged the U.S. in Key Technologies. Can a New Law Help?

In the weeks before the House and the Senate ended 13 months of arguments and passed the $280 billion CHIPS and Science Act, China’s...

U.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...

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...

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...

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...

Nvidia Deal to Buy Arm From SoftBank Is Off After Setbacks

SAN FRANCISCO — Nvidia, the Silicon Valley chip maker, is ending its nearly 18-month effort to buy Arm, which licenses chip technology used in...

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,...

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....

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...

Supply Chain Problems Mean Buying a Car Sometimes Takes a Plane Ride

When Rachael Kasper started shopping for a new car in August, she had her heart set on a Ford Escape plug-in hybrid. The problem...

The Dream of U.S.-Made Computer Chips

This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. Here is a collection of past columns.Many U.S. politicians and technologists believe that America would...

F.T.C. Sues to Block Nvidia’s Takeover of Arm

WASHINGTON — The Federal Trade Commission on Thursday sued to block Nvidia’s $40 billion acquisition of a fellow chip company, Arm, halting one of...

Samsung Will Build a $17 Billion Chip Plant in Taylor, Texas

Samsung will build a $17 billion semiconductor factory in Taylor, Texas, it said on Tuesday, giving a big boost to a bipartisan effort in...

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