The dictionary definition of the word “grift” is as follows: “to acquire money or property illicitly [https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/grift]”. It may be a strong word, but also more or less encapsulates the regulatory ethos that’s governing cross-border technology businesses these days. The TikTok-Oracle deal flaunts this| Interconnected
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Last weekend, I read a long, epic piece of techlore [https://www.huxiu.com/article/360061.html] that chronicled the fierce and bitter rivalry between TSMC and Samsung in their fight to become the world’s number 1 chip foundry, which stretched back three decades and continues today. Among the| Interconnected
Consolidation in the semiconductor industry continues. The latest event is MIPS Technologies embracing the open source instruction-set architecture (ISA), RISC-V, and no longer designing for the MIPS architecture that gave birth to the company more than three decades ago. While this news, reported in the trade publication EE Journal [https:| Interconnected
Three months after Softbank announced its acquisition of Arm in 2016, Masa Son (founder and CEO of Softbank) invited Jensen Huang (founder and CEO of Nvidia) for dinner at his California mansion. Just the two of them. Among the many things they talked about at this “dinner date”, chronicled in| Interconnected
