Family members say they were not permitted to meet the men before they were killed. President Volodymyr Zelensky welcomes the announcement of the us supplying ukraine with Armoured Fighting Vehicles for the first time. Meanwhile, russias unilateral ceasefire appears to have had little effect on the front line. Youre watching bbc news. Now, its time for talking business. A hundred years ago, oil was the most sought after commodity. Today, its these chips that run the world. They provide the Processing Power for everything we use, from smartphones to aircraft and cars to microwaves. But the fight for who controls the Supply Chains, the network of companies that make these devices, is escalating. Translation we will focus on National Strategic needs l and pool our resources together to boost Cutting Edge Research in science and technology domestically, and resolutely win the battle in key technologies. So instead of relying on chips made overseas in places like china, the supply chain for
offer of a truce, now ended, was deceitful. he said peace in ukraine would only be restored when russian forces were expelled. kevin mccarthy has been sworn in as speaker of the us house of representatives, after 15 rounds of voting. a small group of republican rebels had derailed each previous attempt. the new speaker says it was the influence of former president trump that helped him secure the position. iran has been widely condemned after executing two more anti government protesters. mohammad mahdi karami and seyed mohammad hosseini had appealed against their sentences for killing a member of the security forces during nationwide protests against the government last year. they said they d been tortured into making false confessions. now on bbc news, talking business. 100 years ago, oil was the most sought after commodity. today, it s these chips that run the world. they provide the processing power for everything we use, from smartphones to aircraft and cars to microwave
family members say they were not permitted to meet the men before they were killed. president volodymyr zelensky welcomes the announcement of the us supplying ukraine with armoured fighting vehicles for the first time. meanwhile, russia s unilateral ceasefire appears to have had little effect on the front line. you re watching bbc news. now, it s time for talking business. a hundred years ago, oil was the most sought after commodity. today, it s these chips that run the world. they provide the processing power for everything we use, from smartphones to aircraft and cars to microwaves. but the fight for who controls the supply chains, the network of companies that make these devices, is escalating. translation: we will focus on national strategic needs l and pool our resources together to boost cutting edge research in science and technology domestically, and resolutely win the battle in key technologies. so instead of relying on chips made overseas in places like china, the s
well, the us chips act is helping level the playing field. over the course of the last couple of decades, a lot of the manufacturing of silicon moved to asia because of the incentives provided by the governments here, and now us chips act is able to bridge the cost gap that exists in production in the us versus asia. so us chips act will provide the necessary grants and the investment tax credits to enable more manufacturing in the us. yeah, i m glad you mentioned cost, because there s a reason that the supply chains move to asia in the first place, isn t there? are you confident that the us can be the dominant manufacturer? well, the supply chains for memory manufacturing will be diversified. of course, micron has a well diversified footprint of manufacturing here in asia, and micron will continue to invest in ourfabs in asia to meet the demand needs of the future. but also in order to meet the growth in demand, we need to add new capacity. so us new manufacturing fabs that
and today, as you know, customers during the covid period had supply chain shortages, they had semiconductor shortages, and they scrambled to get supply of semiconductors, and they built high levels of inventory. these are some of the factors impacting the demand to micron and to other memory suppliers today as well. and inventory adjustments are happening at our customers. the ordinary person doesn t get much insight into how something like the war in ukraine affects a semiconductor business. could you elaborate on that? well, you know, the war in ukraine certainly weakened the sentiment around electronics buying, and resulted in some of the demand reduction. of course, you know, consumers, when they have to worry about energy, food, and of course, post covid, some of the travel aspects, basically reallocation of consumer spend away from electronics toward food, energy and other factors. so these are some of the factors that have impacted