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To Seize the AI Opportunity, Microchips Are Key

June 6, 2018 1:00 am Published by

Artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms drive innovation and change across the business landscape. AI helps doctors diagnose and treat cancer. It powers personal digital assistants like Alexa and Google Home. It can do everything from training airplane pilots and air traffic controllers to detecting credit-card fraud, and from handling customer-service interactions to managing investment portfolios.

AI Connects Imagination, Leo Li, China

May 29, 2018 7:01 pm Published by

Pop quiz: What is the common 10,000-mile thread tying a British company, Imagination Technologies to the former president and CEO at Chinese fabless? Answer: Li is Imagination’s brand-new CEO, picked by Canyon Bridge, the Chinese government-backed buyout fund that acquired the U.K. company last year.

National Security vs. Job Creation

May 29, 2018 7:00 pm Published by

Much has been said in recent years about jobs shifting overseas in what many economists are calling “the hollowing out of America.” Increasingly, the country’s economy is focused on high-end services—legal, medical, engineering, design and IP—while the market for the blue collar manufacturing jobs that were once a staple of our economy has hollowed, as trade agreements, the internet and offshoring shift them to other regions.

Q&A: Ray Bingham on Canyon Bridge, Imagination

May 29, 2018 6:48 pm Published by

If Canyon Bridge Capital Partners (Palo Alto, Calif.) succeeds in purchasing Imagination Technologies without a hitch, it will be the very first time the Chinese government-backed buyout fund has closed any deal since the firm was founded in 2016.