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...China’s national chip champions expect to make next-generation smartphone processors as early as this year, despite US efforts to restrict their development of advanced technologies....
...A shift in culture after Boeing bought McDonnell Douglas in 1997 put financial returns ahead of engineering prowess....
...The case in point here is Boeing, which was allowed to purchase the only other US domestic producer of commercial aircraft, McDonnell Douglas, in 1997....
...“It is less clear that they are champions of the oil and gas sector.”...
...Huawei, a Chinese national champion caught by rising geopolitical tension between Washington and Beijing, is working to reclaim lost market share after its sales plunged following the imposition of US sanctions...
...The first half of the current $460,000 Grand Swiss in Douglas, Isle of Man, has seen a tense generation battle between established grandmasters and rising talents....
...The $460,000 Grand Swiss and $140,000 Women’s Grand Swiss also ended on Sunday evening at Douglas, Isle of Man....
...Since then, she and Shanahan have vied with their arch rivals, Newmark’s Douglas Harmon and Adam Spies, for supremacy of the Manhattan skyline....
...The $460,000, 114-player Fide Grand Swiss at Douglas, Isle of Man, starting October 25, qualifies two winners for the 2024 Candidates and will be fiercely contested....
...But it’s unlikely Anita Roddick, The Body Shop’s founder and a champion of ethical capitalism, would be particularly impressed....
...Crypto, and the stablecoin Tether in particular, has helped give the underground sector a new lease of life, says Jeremy Douglas, a regional representative of the UN’s Office on Drugs and Crime....
...Douglas Yu, vice-president of pathfinding for system integration, said the company is now looking to boost performance further....
...“The prince had his passion, but he ran it like a business,” explains Douglas Erskine Crum, Juddmonte CEO and former chief executive of Ascot racecourse....
...In this piece in MIT Technology Review, Will Douglas Heaven talks to the DeepMind researchers who have proposed some much clearer definitions for the different levels of AI that are fast approaching....
...Lockheed, as it was known before its merger with Martin Marietta, withdrew from the commercial market in the 1980s, and a weakened McDonnell Douglas combined with Boeing in 1997....
...Data visualisation by Ray Douglas...
...The most high profile retread is probably Douglas Alexander who is to fight East Lothian, a highly winnable Scottish seat....
...National champions Both Huawei and SMIC can at least be sure of state support as they attempt to keep up with industry leaders....
...Tsinghua Unigroup, a national chip champion backed by China’s most prestigious engineering school, in November defaulted on a domestically issued bond, triggering concerns over cross-defaults of offshore...
...Alessandro Profumo, chief executive of Italy’s defence champion Leonardo, said the tri-national alliance was significant in part because of access to the Japanese market....
...“Just try to squeeze the most juice out of the mature nodes,” said Douglas Fuller, an expert in China’s semiconductor industry at Copenhagen Business School....
...“There might be some politicians who wouldn’t be speaking out, that’s for sure,” said Douglas Wigdor, who is representing Quintanar and others who have used the ASA....
...For the New York-based group, which predominantly manages the money of its Brazilian founding partners and their wealthy friends, including Colombia’s Santo Domingo family and the Swiss tennis champion Roger...
...As a champion of the single market, Margaret Thatcher accepted that joint regulation was the best route to trade liberalisation....
...Craig Douglas, the founder of World Fund, a €350mn venture fund based in Berlin, says the discrepancies between the “specific buckets of capital” available in Europe are sharp....
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