By Steven Scheer
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's high-tech sector now accounts for 20% of the country's economic output, the Israel Innovation Authority (IIA) said on Tuesday as it urged the government to invest more to allow tech to grow faster.
In its 2024 State of the High Tech Sector in Israel report, the state-funded authority said that despite the eight-month-old war against Palestinian Islamist group Hamas in Gaza, the tech sector... (continue reading...)
By Max A. Cherney and Stephen Nellis
TAIPEI/SAN FRANCISCO - Intel launched its next generation Xeon server processors on Tuesday as it looks to claw back data center market share and revealed that its Gaudi 3 artificial intelligence accelerator chips would be priced much lower than its rivals' chips.
The sixth generation Xeon chips are crucial for Intel, which has been steadily losing data center market share to AMD. Intel's share of the... (continue reading...)
By Leika Kihara
TOKYO (Reuters) - Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda said on Tuesday the central bank's basic stance is to allow market forces to set long-term interest rates.
But he said the central bank will conduct "nimble" market operations if long-term interest rates spike, signaling the BOJ's readiness to ramp up bond buying when necessary.
On monetary policy, Ueda said the central bank will adjust the degree of... (continue reading...)
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin arrived in Cambodia on Tuesday for a brief visit aimed at reversing some of the gains China has made in the country amid increasing concern about Beijing's growing presence at a key Cambodian naval base.
Cambodia's decision to allow China to develop Ream Naval Base, located at a key waterway on the coast of the Gulf of Thailand in Sihanoukville province, has Washington worried that it will give... (continue reading...)
MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippine military denied on Tuesday Chinese allegations that troops stationed on a grounded warship in the Second Thomas Shoal in the South China Sea had pointed guns at Chinese Coast Guard vessels.
Philippine personnel are governed by rules of engagement and clearly acted with highest level of professionalism, military spokesperson Francel Margareth Padilla told a press conference.
Chinese state media said... (continue reading...)
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