A game-changing book on where technology is taking us.
Penguin Books
This is the story of a range of new technologies that are getting cheaper and being adopted at such speeds that society can barely keep up.
The chip manufacturing industry of the 21st century is the most significant industry, geopolitically speaking, as oil was in the 20th century.
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Global semiconductor manufacturing is already under geopolitical stress, but climate change ups the ante.
AMD
Originally designed to speed up computer graphics, GPUs have become a hot commodity as AI workhorses.
Giant panda cub Xiao Qi Ji and its mother Mei Xiang at the Smithsonian zoo in Washington DC on April 16 2022 when events were held to mark the 50th anniversary of the giant panda programme there.
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The arrival of two giant pandas in San Diego is a sign of China’s need to make friends in the US tech industries.
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Tea supplies are under threat as a shipping crisis continues in the Red Sea.
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Neuromorphic computers aim to one day replicate the amazing efficiency of the brain.
Customers try out Huawei’s Mate 60 and Mate 60 Pro+ series smartphones during the Huawei new product launch conference in Beijing in September 2023.
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Chinese technology advancements cannot be contained, and the country is increasingly an education and research powerhouse.
Taiwan holds a dominant position in the microchip industry and also makes the most advanced types.
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The disruption of Taiwan’s chip industry would affect everyone.
Vorsprung durch technik has been in short supply.
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Europe’s share of the global microchip market has dropped from 44% to 8% in three decades.
Intel Inside no longer means what it once did.
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The story of how America’s great chipmaker’s main strength became an albatross around its neck.
China 1 Newport 0.
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Wingtech Technology is taking over Newport Wafer Fab for £65 million.
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Shutdowns at microchip factories, panic-buying by electronics manufacturers, and legions of workers and home-schoolers needing new devices, have put a global squeeze on the electronics market.
Production of Tesla Model 3s was forced to be suspended.
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Welcome to the great silicon famine of 2021. And 2022. And 2023. And …
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.
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Arm defied the traditional notion of how a technology company competes in the global market place. That could all change.
Cyborgs are people with additional technological hardware connected to their bodies.
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An increasing number of people are choosing to implant themselves with microchips. But conspiracy theories about the practice exploit fears surrounding body autonomy.
Does a microchip implant have a deeper meaning?
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Tiny electronic items can identify pets, clothes and even people. Evangelical Christians aren’t the only people worried about what this technology might mean.
Are microchips as secure as you think they should be?
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As the microchip industry celebrates the 50th anniversary of chipmaker Intel’s founding, engineers and researchers call for a complete rethinking of computer architecture.