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Winter in Silicon Valley, China Sizzles

Posted on February 15, 2019 by |
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…
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GlobalFoundries New York: For Sale?

Posted on February 15, 2019 by |
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…
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Jobs and New York’s Green New Deal

Posted on February 14, 2019 by |
Clean Tech, and New York’s Green New Deal, have common objectives: cleaner air, fewer emissions, more efficient fuel use. If that mix leads to the development of new technology, new products, a new factory, and new jobs, all the better.…
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30 Tech Hot Spots in New York

Posted on February 14, 2019 by |
If you drive a car in New York you have probably driven by at least one or two officially designated ‘innovation hot spots,’ maybe in an old industrial zone? And kept on driving no doubt. No wonder. These often nondescript…
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Student entrepreneurs swap classrooms for startup

Posted on February 12, 2019 by |
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…
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IBM’s AI Hot Spot: Tech Valley New York

Posted on February 12, 2019 by |
Tech Valley is the next Artificial Intelligence Hot Spot, a designation that follows recent reports that IBM Research will build a cutting-edge technology center for AI hardware in New York’s Capital Region. Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced the news, noting…
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What’s going down in Silicon Valley?

Posted on February 12, 2019 by |
What’s going down in Silicon Valley? The headlines tell a big part of part of the story, but only one part. How complete and accurate a picture one gets about the social justice uprisings, and the ‘Big Tech’ rumblings out…
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