Enlarge / In 2020, Intel partnered with the National Forest Foundation in Phase III of a project replacing invasive Arundo and Tamarix weed species with native flora and revegetating burned-off areas. This phase of the project aims to restore 79 million gallons of fresh water per year. (credit: Intel) Two of the world’s leading chip […]
Enlarge / TSMC’s headquarters, seen here, are in Hsinchu, Taiwan—but the company is expanding worldwide, with a $12 billion fab due to open near Intel’s own facilities in Arizona. (credit: Sam Yeh via Getty Images) Earlier this week, chipmaker TSMC—Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, who manufactures processors for Apple, Qualcomm, and AMD, among many other industry […]
Enlarge (credit: TSMC) When Li Ta-sen was a little boy, he used to walk to school through fields of sugarcane taller than himself. Some 40 years later, he is making a living by selling off the same fields as a property boom takes hold in his hometown of Shanhua. The reason for the construction frenzy […]