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Business
Patient money buys into the chip plant
A silicon wafer 300 mm across is lifted from its carrier, and the fine circuitry on its surface breaks the light into bands of rainbow. In the visitors' corri…
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Business
Twelve gigabytes is the new starting line
Of the eighty-odd phones launched at home and overseas in the past quarter, six in ten start at 12GB of working memory. A year ago fewer than two in ten did. …
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Business
Online pharmacies grow up
Buying medicine online used to mean a leap of faith. New licensing rules now require a registered pharmacist to review every prescription order, a traceable c…
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Business
The quiet boom in fibre
Behind the headlines about data centres and artificial intelligence sits an unglamorous supply chain. Every rack of accelerators needs to be connected to ever…
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Business
One night, 400,000 parcels
At ten at night every lamp is burning in the parcel hub behind the port. It is the third day of the autumn shopping festival, and the sorting hall, the size o…
