In September, the chip giant Intel gathered officials at a patch of land near Columbus, Ohio, where it pledged to invest at least $20 billion in two new factories to make semiconductors. A month later, Micron Technology celebrated a new manufacturing site near Syracuse, N.Y., where the chip company expected to spend $20 billion by […]
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U.S. Pours Money Into Chips, but Even Soaring Spending Has Limits
In September, the chip giant Intel gathered officials at a patch of land near Columbus, Ohio, where it pledged to invest at least $20 billion in two new factories to make semiconductors. A month later, Micron Technology celebrated a new manufacturing site near Syracuse, N.Y., where the chip company expected to spend $20 billion by […]
Despite Soaring Deaths in Somalia, Monitor Says It’s Not Yet a Famine. Some Object.
In the Somali town of Baidoa, aid workers glean a picture of the situation in Shabab-held areas from newly-arrived refugees. But the hungry and desperate are not always good sources of accurate information, they say. And the unusually long drought has caused donors to question their own assumptions about how to determine a famine. “We […]