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1 week ago | 
asiatimes.com | Henry Kressel
Artificial intelligence (AI) software’s uncanny ability to emulate some important human behaviors has sparked speculation about its impact on employment. Will increasingly intelligent robots replace human workers, creating massive unemployment with heavy social costs?
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Feb 11, 2025 | 
asiatimes.com | Henry Kressel
Chinese start-up DeepSeek’s remarkable AI software results have shaken public markets, driving down the shares of leading US technology companies, including Nvidia. Many now wonder how a small team in China could, in such a short time, challenge the cutting-edge AI products of American companies with massive resources, outstanding talent and established market positions. Small engineering teams working away from the mainstream have produced remarkable achievements in the past.
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Feb 11, 2025 | 
flipboard.com | Henry Kressel
Experts predict Nvidia stock to soar after February 26 as something big is comingIndustry experts are predicting that Nvidia stock is set to rise in the next few weeks. If you like to take a punt on the stock market, Nvidia could …
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Jan 24, 2025 | 
asiatimes.com | Henry Kressel
The US faces growing global competition in major defense technologies at all levels of deployment. In response, the US Department of Defense will launch new programs to improve the competitive scope and quality of American defense systems. The success of such programs will be measured by superior innovation accomplished at great speed to outmatch the competition. Toward that end, sophisticated manufacturing resources making hardware systems are of particular importance.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
asiatimes.com | Henry Kressel
After decades of decline, a new boost in US manufacturing is garnering considerable media attention. In particular, the semiconductor industry has been prioritized for US government support through the CHIPS Act initiative with some US$50 billion worth of state funding. But what will be needed to increase and sustain US high-technology manufacturing?
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
asiatimes.com | Henry Kressel
Intel, once among the world’s leading technology companies, is struggling. Founded as a start-up in 1968, the US chipmaker grew to success over the years through savvy business and technology decisions combined with timely product investments. Led by a brilliant founding team, the company quickly developed an outstanding reputation for building and protecting its market-leading position through the development of intelligent equipment and timely innovative products.
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Aug 23, 2024 | 
asiatimes.com | Henry Kressel
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology has been front and center recently, creating great interest in companies like Nvidia, which now ranks among the most valuable companies in the world. But where does this technology rank among others that have enabled our digital world? The most far-reaching prior innovations were mainly based on electronic devices that enabled increasingly powerful computer and communications systems.
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Jun 28, 2024 | 
asiatimes.com | Henry Kressel
Chips are the key economic and military enablers of the industrial world. South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol recently described chip technology leadership as paramount to a country’s economic survival (Wall Street Journal, June 5, 2024). The impact on military matters is overwhelming.
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Apr 14, 2024 | 
asiatimes.com | Henry Kressel
The automotive industry is in a most difficult period of its history. How can it predict the future? Technological marvels enabled by digital electronics have periodically emerged as new consumer products and services. And what is most remarkable is how quickly they have become accepted as necessities.
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Feb 19, 2024 | 
americanaffairsjournal.org | Henry Kressel
The economic success of the United States in creating the digital world owes a great deal to two key factors. The first is the ability to innovate great technologies, and the second is the ability to turn these innovations into major industrial products. This creative success was not the result of a lack of international competitors. Other countries in Europe and Asia have developed large engineering facilities and, combined, train far more engineers and scientists than the United States.
