AI: the new industrial wave
Recently, two global headlines captured the world, revealing a truly remarkable transformation unfolding before our eyes. Amazon announced plans to lay off over 30,000 employees, marking the largest corporate downsizing…
The real contest of growth
China’s modern rise began with Deng Xiaoping’s reforms after 1978. A handful of pragmatic changes turned an inward, centrally planned economy into an export superpower. Beijing created Special Economic Zones…
Filth and fury
INDIAN social media — or at least the parts of it that are most visible in the current crisis — is a curious mixture of hate and threats of sexual…
Huawei readies new AI chip for mass shipment as China seeks Nvidia alternatives
Huawei Technologies plans to begin mass shipments of its advanced 910C artificial intelligence chip to Chinese customers as early as next month, two people familiar with the matter said. Some…
Tariffs, turmoil & tech
ON the morning of April 5, 2025, traders at the New York Stock Exchange were glued to their screens as Apple’s stock nosedived nearly five per cent in an hour.…
SEZs and economic development
During the decade of the 1980s a paradigm shift took place in the minds of economic policy makers; the movement in thought process was rooted in the idea that economic development…
If Europe builds the gigafactories, will an AI industry come?
The European Commission is raising $20 billion to construct four “AI gigafactories” as part of Europe’s strategy to catch up with the US and China on artificial intelligence, but some…
AI’s new era
A seismic tremor shook global markets in late January as Nvidia’s valuation plunged by $600 billion within hours, dragging the Nasdaq down by $1 trillion in a historic tech selloff.…
Quality education
High-quality engineering education has played a key role in the rapid development of certain Asian countries such as Korea, India and China. In Korea, the establishment of the Korea Advanced…
The power of crazy dreams
Imagine a world where reusable rockets connect the remotest corners of the planet, machines think faster than humans, and audacious companies don’t just sell products but transform entire ways of…
