Where technology runs into government. Industrial strategy, subsidies, the chip and AI rules, and the slow machinery that decides which sectors a country actually bets on. I cover it because the policy usually shapes the tech long before the market gets a vote.
The O-RAN Alliance, founded in 2018 by AT&T and China Mobile, has shifted discussions from cost and vendor independence to sovereignty concerns. As governments…
SMIC N+1 is a 7nm-class node built without EUV, after the 2020 Entity List cut SMIC off from the one machine the industry uses…
On January 14 the US Department of Defense added Xiaomi to its list of “Communist Chinese Military Companies,” and within a day it became…
France strengthens its quantum technology efforts through national strategy elements and increased public investment around 2021–2022.
SMIC 14nm was China's first homegrown FinFET, architected by Liang Mong Song and built for Huawei, proving SMIC could do leading-edge engineering at last.
TSMC's N7+ brought 7nm EUV into volume for the first time, ironically inside a Huawei chip, proving extreme ultraviolet in production ahead of full…
A year ago I said a press release with five logos does not lay fiber. The first Open Fronthaul specification just landed at Barcelona,…
AT&T and China Mobile just co-founded the same alliance. The xRAN Forum and the C-RAN Alliance are merging into the O-RAN Alliance, and the…
The Villani Report on AI in 2018 provides a strategic framework that guides French public investment and policy in artificial intelligence.
A Stanford professor and two tier-one operators just launched a forum to turn the radio access network into open software running on ordinary servers.…
SMIC 28nm reached volume in 2015, four years late after a long yield struggle, just as the leading edge moved to FinFET and left…
The French Tech initiative launched in 2013 provides coordinated national support that raises the profile of French startups and improves access to capital and…
SMIC 45nm was the company's most current node yet, reached two years behind the leaders, the year after SMIC turned its first profit since…
SMIC 65nm arrived in November 2009, the week TSMC won its trade-secret case, took a stake of up to 10 percent, and founder Richard…
Paris Region clusters Cap Digital and Systematic turn policy into structured collaboration that accelerates digital and deep tech innovation.