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Outgoing Commerce chief: "The only way to win is to out-innovate them"

by Kai Ryssdal and Andie Corban
Jan 14, 2025
Kai Ryssdal does an "exit interview" with Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo.
Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo meets with Marketplace to discuss the Biden administration's economic legacy, including the CHIPS Act, the growth of manufacturing and trade relations with China.
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How microchips came to power your phone and the economy

by Janet Nguyen
Dec 6, 2024
As our devices and vehicles perform increasingly sophisticated actions, chip demand has soared.
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Intel, a household name in chips, is reportedly a takeover target

by Stephanie Hughes
Sep 23, 2024
The company is known for making a chip called a central processing unit, often referred to as the brain of a computer.
Intel has lost market share in microprocessors and hasn't made a complete pivot to graphics processing units, or GPUs, which are needed for artificial intelligence.
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Phoenix’s semiconductor boom was supposed to change their lives, but did it?

by Maria Hollenhorst
Aug 15, 2024
Months after completing a semiconductor technician training course, two workers share their stories.
Students in the Semiconductor Technician Quick Start training course at Mesa Community College practice using hand tools while wearing “bunny suits,” the required workwear at fabrication plants.
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Higher tariffs on Chinese computer chips may not lead to more U.S. engineering jobs

by Daniel Ackerman
May 23, 2024
An NBER study finds the tariffs may actually dampen U.S. opportunities for chip engineers and others.
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Nvidia dominates in AI, but others are trying to chip away

by Meghan McCarty Carino
May 22, 2024
The chipmaker's early focus on graphics processing technology created an advantage that is paying off hugely this year.
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What you need to know about Nvidia and the AI chip arms race

by Janet Nguyen
Mar 8, 2024
NVIDIA’s share price has jumped several hundred dollars in the past year, rising from $242 to $875.
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The US is known for designing chips, not making them. Can the CHIPS Act funding change that?

by Stephanie Hughes
Feb 21, 2024
This week, the Biden administration said it’s awarding $1.5 billion to chipmaker GlobalFoundries to expand its manufacturing here, in the largest grant under the CHIPS Act so far.
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Extended downtime for GM plants doesn't mean workers are losing their jobs

by Andy Uhler
Feb 10, 2021
The company says there's a semiconductor shortage, and it will reassess the situation in mid-March
Vehicles go through the assembly line at the General Motors Lansing Delta Township Assembly Plant on Feb. 21, 2020, in Lansing, Michigan.
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Apple will reportedly replace Intel processors with its own microchips

by Jon Gordon , Stephanie Hughes and Shaheen Ainpour
Apr 6, 2018
That would help its devices work more seamlessly together.
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