The chip industry’s dirty little secret: it’s very dirty

The CPU in your phone, tablet or computer processes billions of operations a second. On the microscopic scale, that means opening and closing billions of tiny electrical gates. This is done using elec

Chip firm warns customers that bottlenecks will take time to clear

THE MINERALS FOUND IN AN ELECTRIC-CAR BATTERY often travel thousands of miles around the world before the vehicles they will be in hit the road. Lithium mined in Chile or Argentina is shipped to China

Artificial intelligence (AI) is – if you ask any of Silicon Valley’s top CEOs – the biggest opportunity in their company’s history. Few will tell you that it’s also their biggest threat. “For those bi

In rude health: AstraZeneca, Britain’s biggest drugmaker, has “risen to the challenge” of US healthcare providers negotiating drug prices by posting “solid first-half sales growth”, says Derren Nathan

It’s there or thereabouts. A technology index by researchers at Harvard, published last month, ranked 25 countries across five sectors: artificial intelligence (AI), semiconductors, biotechnology, spa