Taiwan: Blowin’ in the Wind?

How many  ‘Silicon Shields’ will it take to save Taiwan – and the global semiconductor industry – from destruction? The answer is blowing in the wind. Citadel’s founder Ken Griffin warns the US economy will enter an immediate ‘great depression’…
Winter in Silicon Valley, China Sizzles

Photo: China is building a particle collider almost four times bigger than the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and it is expected to produce over one million Higgs boson particles in its first decade of operation.   Where’s the Next Silicon…
GlobalFoundries New York: For Sale?

GlobalFoundries chipmaking operation in New York – the one taking a pass on the 7nm semiconductor manufacturing process node – is up for sale according to industry source ComputerBasereport. “A few days before the tenth anniversary, it is clear that…
Student entrepreneurs swap classrooms for startup

Have you ever wondered what’s driving today’s tech startup funding curve on the university campus? Two words: Student entrepreneurship. Some of the greatest technology companies in Silicon Valley’s were launched by the classroom-to-startup method now popular at tech  school and…