semiconductor industry:US group wants to invest billions in SaarlandJanuary 31, 2023 at 4:00 p.mReading time: 4 minsOpen detailed viewThe Ensdorf coal-fired power plant in Saarland. The plant will soon be gone - a factory for semiconductors is to be built in its place. (Photo: Becker Bredel/imago images)Semiconductors instead of coal: The chip manufacturer Wolfspeed is planning a state-of-the-art factory near Saarlouis. It is intended to be a showcase project for structural change. from Caspar Busse, Claus Hulverscheidt, Georg Ismar and...
medical technology After losing billions, Philips will cut another 6,000 jobs The ailing medical technology manufacturer Philips wants to cut thousands of jobs. photo © picture alliance / dpa The Dutch group wants to cut thousands of jobs again. This should bring the troubled medical technology manufacturer back on course. The ailing medical technology manufacturer Philips wants to increase profitability significantly in the coming years through further massive job cuts. The Dutch group has been under pressure for some time...
medical technology After losing billions, Philips will cut another 6,000 jobs The ailing medical technology manufacturer Philips wants to cut thousands of jobs. photo © picture alliance / dpa The Dutch group wants to cut thousands of jobs again. This should bring the troubled medical technology manufacturer back on course. The ailing medical technology manufacturer Philips wants to increase profitability significantly in the coming years through further massive job cuts. The Dutch group has been under pressure for some time...
The number of people in need of care is growing and growing - but experts already see those affected overburdened. In the traffic light coalition, a dispute over the future billions for care is looming. In view of the growing pressure in the care of the elderly, the SPD insists on fresh tax billions for reforms from Finance Minister Christian Lindner (FDP). The five million people in need of care and their relatives expect the coalition to stand by their...
As of: 01/29/2023 4:37 p.m By 2025, the number of people in need of care in Germany could rise to 5.5 million. But the traffic light coalition is arguing about how domestic and professional care should be paid for. Because of the increasing number of people in need of care, the SPD is demanding more money from finance minister Christian Lindner for reforms in elderly care. Especially when times are difficult, the five million people in need of care and...
Diseases WHO: Billions of people not protected from trans fats Berliners or pancakes on a plate. According to the DGE, baked goods and confectionery are among the foods that can contain significant amounts of trans fatty acids. photo © Bernd Wüstneck/dpa-Zentralbild/dpa The World Health Organization has drawn an interim balance: They wanted to ensure that trans fats largely disappear from the food chain all over the world. But that didn't happen. Harmful industrially produced trans fats are still used in...
Status: 01/23/2023 5:22 p.m Microsoft relies on artificial intelligence. The US software group is therefore investing further billions in OpenAI, the developer of the ChatGPT software. It is not yet known exactly how much money will flow. The US group Microsoft is pushing into the promising market for artificial intelligence and wants to invest billions in OpenAI. This was announced by Microsoft boss Satya Nadella on Twitter. Nadella wrote of a long-term "multi-billion dollar investment" to accelerate California startup OpenAI's...
Much more needs to be done to eliminate industrial trans fatty acids from the world diet. The objective of eliminating them by 2023, while they are used in many consumer foods, is very far from being achieved and five billion consumers are still not protected against these products dangerous to health. In its progress report, published on Monday, the World Health Organization (WHO) is forced to acknowledge that this "is unattainable at present".However, these trans fatty acids have “no known...
As of: 01/20/2023 4:57 p.m In response to the Russian war against Ukraine, French President Macron wants to significantly increase military spending. From 2024 to 2030, the army's budget is to increase to 400 billion euros. President Emmanuel Macron wants to drastically increase France's military spending. From 2024 to 2030, a total of 400 billion euros should flow into the defense budget, he proposed in his New Year's address to the military at the Mont-de-Marsan air base. This should guarantee...
Status: 01/20/2023 09:01 a.m Shortly before the start of the Ramstein meeting, the USA specified its further military aid to Ukraine. The new package is worth $2.5 billion and the list is long, but it doesn't include "Abrams" main battle tanks. The US government is providing Ukraine with more billions in military aid to ward off Russia's war of aggression. The US Department of Defense announced a package worth about 2.5 billion US dollars (2.3 billion euros). According to the...
