Europe’s new magnet plant: A silver bullet for industry, climate and geopolitics? 

Europe’s new magnet plant: A silver bullet for industry, climate and geopolitics? 

Shorouk Express NARVA, Estonia — Right on the Russian border, Europe’s first commercial-scale rare-earth magnet factory is starting to supply automotive and green tech customers from a forgotten corner of Estonia. The project represents an act of defiance against Russian aggression. It’s a bid to counter China’s chokehold over critical minerals that is Beijing’s trump…

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‘Once-in-a-generation opportunity’: Silver Lake may have struck gold with controlling majority in chip designer once worth almost bn

‘Once-in-a-generation opportunity’: Silver Lake may have struck gold with controlling majority in chip designer once worth almost $17bn

[ad_1] Intel sells 51% of Altera to Silver Lake for $4.46bn, valuing business at $8.75bn Altera gains independence as largest pure-play FPGA semiconductor company Raghib Hussain named new CEO as Intel shifts its strategic focus Intel, now under the leadership of new CEO Lip-Bu Tan, has been facing a number of challenges in recent years,…

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