Chip Shortage Creates New Power Players

[ad_1] SAN FRANCISCO — Since 1989, Microchip Technology has operated in an unglamorous backwater of the electronics industry, making chips called microcontrollers that add computing power to cars, industrial equipment

BuzzFeed plans to start publicly trading in early December.

[ad_1] If you want to own a piece of BuzzFeed, just wait till the first week of December.The publisher’s plan to merge with 890 5th Avenue Partners, a blank-check company,

Samsung will build a $17 billion chip plant in Texas.

[ad_1] Samsung will build a $17 billion semiconductor factory in Taylor, Texas, it said on Tuesday, giving a big boost to a bipartisan effort in Washington to persuade chip makers

Microsoft will change hiring practices after DOJ said company discriminated against immigrants

[ad_1] Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Volkswagen CEO Herbert Diess (not pictured) attend a session during their visit to Volkswagen Digital Lab in Berlin on Feb. 27, 2019.Abdulhamid Hosbas |

Amazon’s outage and HashiCorp’s IPO point to a future with multiple clouds

[ad_1] HashiCorp at the Nasdaq market site, December 9, 2021.Source: NasdaqWhen Amazon Web Services, the biggest provider of cloud-computing infrastructure, suffered an hours-long outage on Tuesday, Disney+, Netflix, Robinhood, Roku and