Increasing geopolitical rivalry in chip and semiconductor manufacturing

Geopolitical competition over chip and semiconductor production is intensifying, especially between the United States and China, as tensions escalate around Taiwan’s critical role in this field. Taiwan produces 60% of the world’s sub-7-nanometre advanced chips, which are crucial for artificial intelligence, 5G technologies, and military systems, placing the island nation at the centre of a […]

Global IT outage causes chaos

A massive IT outage has wreaked havoc across multiple countries, disrupting a wide array of sectors including airports, airlines, rail companies, government services, banks, stock exchanges, supermarkets, telecoms, health systems, and media outlets. The chaos stemmed from an update to a cybersecurity product offered by CrowdStrike, which caused machines running the Microsoft Windows operating system […]