Chinese President Xi Jinping has for a decade called for breakthroughs to be made to untangle China from what it called “stranglehold technologies” – a total of 35 of them, seven of which are related to semiconductors, according to state media. In a widely circulated video on Chinese social media platforms, a Peking University professor was seen telling his students that based on their study, it will take 400 years to get China to where…

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WASHINGTON: The United States and the United Kingdom announced widespread sanctions against Iran’s military drone program on Thursday (Apr 18) in response to its weekend attack against Israel. Washington is targeting “16 individuals and two entities enabling Iran’s UAV production, including engine types that power Iran’s Shahed variant UAVs, which were…

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NEW YORK : U.S. electrical systems are not expanding fast enough to meet rapidly growing power needs of technology like Generative AI, prompting data center businesses to sometimes bypass utilities, executives said at an energy conference this week. Layers of regulations, citing and permitting processes, and frequent legal fights brought…

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