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...Yangtze Memory Technologies Corp, which last December was added to a trade blacklist and prohibited from procuring US equipment to manufacture chips, exceeded its target for a new round, according to four...
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...He said Britain needed to have a procurement system that was “much more agile, more pacy and more integrated across defence” if it was to be able to compete with adversaries, some of whom “are procuring...
...The Pentagon could theoretically resupply Ukraine in short order — although much of the $60.8bn earmarked for Kyiv would be spent on procuring weaponry....
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...It was spun out of Boeing in 2005 as the US group looked to shift fixed costs of its manufacturing facilities and labour to the variable cost of procuring parts from a supplier....
...Humans are considered to be essential in procuring platinum alloys and palladium for ceramic capacitors. These and other rare metals could help generative AI offer vital advances....
...Eighteen countries had expressed interest in procuring the vaccine through Gavi, the global vaccine alliance, the highest-ever demand for any jab in the first year after applications were opened, said Mary...
...The co-founder of a Hong Kong artificial intelligence start-up, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said the export controls had caused major setbacks for his company and procuring chips through normal...
...Staley also said he visited Epstein in Florida in 2009 when Epstein was serving a prison sentence for procuring a child for prostitution because he was a “loyal person” and “just to show support”....
...Procuring good jamón is essential, but if you don’t know how to carve it, is in vain. I had a lesson from Cinco Jotas master carver Raúl Garrido....
...“We’ve already been quite immersed in doing work that is directly related, not just tangential, to AI and machine learning models,” including procuring data, says Haan....
...Epstein was briefly jailed in Florida in 2008 after pleading guilty to procuring a minor for prostitution....
...Although the general staff of Ukraine’s armed forces operates independently of the defence ministry in coordinating military strategy and combat operations, the minister’s role is key in procuring weaponry...
...Staley visited Epstein in Florida in 2009 as the latter was on work release during his jail sentence for procuring a child for prostitution....
...Procuring cocoa has long been a murky business....
...This was the service that Sotheby’s originally provided to Bouvier in procuring works that he went on to sell to Rybolovlev. While this case was explosive, the activity has become increasingly common....
...German chancellor Olaf Scholz unveiled Sky Shield last October to create a European air and missile defence system by jointly procuring equipment, and 17 countries have since signed up, including the UK,...
...The spin-off converted the fixed costs of factory and workforce to the variable cost of procuring parts, an advantage in the commercial aerospace industry where downturns can last years....
...But the defence ministry plays a key role in procuring weapons and mobilising troops....
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