Intel has been forced into the spotlight after it announced a new billion-dollar investment in Israel. The US chip maker confirmed that it will be expanding the Intel Kiryat Gat fab 28 for 2nm node
still, covid is once again dominating our daily lives. schools, sports, work, all face this uncertain future. colleges are sending students home. more and more companies are delaying the return to the office. the nba and nfl rolling out new safety measures and cancelling games. even secretary of state anthony blinken cut his trip to southeast asia short after a journalist on the trip tested positive for covid. five months ago president biden said the virus no longer controls our lives. now people everywhere are lining up to be tested before joining family for the holidays. and to be clear, that s a good thing. new projections show winter holiday travel is about to roar back, so people should get tested. aaa estimates that more than 109 million americans will travel during the week between christmas and new year s. a number approaching the pre-pandemic record. and after sacrificing so much for so long, people want to be together again. it s understandable, but the reality is part of
especially shin zhang. in the past few days we ve seen new and strengthened sanction targeting chinese companies that help conduct surveillance against the muslim population. that list includes some prominent chinese companies, dji, the world s biggest commercial drone maker and schmidt, the country s biggest computer chipmaker. if and when all those measures including this new law are fully implemented, they will have some teeth because xinjiang does play a role in the national and global supply chain. this is going to affect industries such as the manufacturing of solar panel making, for example. i think that s why beijing has been increasingly furious over those actions. the latest response from the foreign ministry here is calling the latest passage of this law in the u.s. showing how the u.s. has become hysterical towards china, and vowing, again, to retaliate. but all of this is really going to reinforce the notion here in beijing that decoupling between the two countries, at lea