Computer Chips
Inside Intel’s Delays in Delivering a Crucial New Microprocessor
Last May, Sandra Rivera, a top executive at the chip giant Intel, got some alarming news. Engineers had worked for more than five years to develop a powerful new microprocessor to carry out computing chores in data centers and were confident they had finally gotten the product right. But signs of a potentially serious technical […]
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As Congress Debated Landmark China Bill, Beijing Surged Ahead
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 main, state-supported chip maker cleared a major technological hurdle that delivered a bit of a shock to the world. Experts are still assessing how China apparently leapfrogged ahead in its effort […]
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Senate Passes $280 Billion Industrial Policy Bill to Counter China
WASHINGTON — The Senate on Wednesday passed an expansive $280 billion bill aimed at building up America’s manufacturing and technological edge to counter China, embracing in an overwhelming bipartisan vote the most significant government intervention in industrial policy in decades. The legislation reflected a remarkable and rare consensus in a polarized Congress in favor of […]
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The Jumbled Dream of U.S. Chips
A global shortage of computer chips had stalled the manufacturing of cars, computers and even dog-washing machines. But there are now signs the shortage of chips — the teeny parts that function like the brain or memory in everything electronic — is ending. This might be a sliver of good news for our budgets. It’s […]
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GM Quarterly Sales Fall Amid Shortage in Computer Chips and Other Parts
The auto industry is facing worrying signs all across its horizon, including rising interest rates and fears of a recession. But the biggest problem still seems to be making enough cars. General Motors said Friday that its U.S. deliveries of new vehicles in the second quarter declined 15 percent from a year earlier, while Toyota […]
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With Funding Stalled, Chip Makers Warn Congress the U.S. Is Lagging
WASHINGTON — Top chip makers are pressuring Congress to quickly pass a measure providing more than $52 billion for companies that build semiconductor factories in the United States, privately warning lawmakers that failure to do so could prompt them to take their manufacturing plants elsewhere. The bill, known as the CHIPS Act, would deliver semiconductor […]
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The Billionaires Behind a Push to Reinvigorate U.S. Chip-Making
Amid the debate about how the United States can bring more manufacturing of semiconductors back to the country and worries it has become a national security concern, a surprising group of well-connected billionaires has quietly assembled to influence the way Washington approaches this thorny challenge. Over the past several months, without attracting much notice, Eric […]
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U.S. Technology, a Longtime Tool for Russia, Becomes a Vulnerability
Technology restrictions have harmed other Russian industries as well, U.S. officials say. Equipment for the oil and gas industry has been degraded, maintenance for tractors and heavy equipment made by Caterpillar and John Deere has halted, and up to 70 percent of the commercial airplanes operated by Russian airlines, which no longer receive spare parts […]
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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 plays a major role in science, medicine and other fields. Frontier, the name of the massive machine at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, was declared on Monday to be the first to […]
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