Why Intel will make chips for its rivals
Tech Life
BBC
4.3 • 227 Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2021
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
The tech giant says it aims to rebalance world chip supply from Asia to the US and Europe. Plus, what can President Biden do about hackers backed by Russia and China? And is crowdtasking the next part of the gig economy to face calls for better workers’ rights? Presented by Joe Tidy, with BBC tech reporter Cristina Criddle. Produced by Jat Gill.
(Image: Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger, Credit: Getty Images).
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| 0:40.7 | Hello and welcome to TechTent, your essential weekly update on the latest tech news. |
| 0:45.0 | I'm Joe Tidy, sitting in for Rory Kethlyn Jones. On this week's program, the US Tech giant Intel |
| 0:50.7 | has been a leader in the design and manufacturer of microchips for decades, |
| 0:55.0 | but now it's also going to make them for its rivals. We'll ask the company's boss, why. |
| 1:00.8 | Plus, President Joe Biden's expected to respond any day now to a major global cyber attack |
| 1:05.5 | believed to have been carried out by Russia. And with companies in the US and beyond currently |
| 1:10.0 | dealing with another highly |
| 1:11.7 | damaging attack linked to China, what in practice can the US and allies do to combat international |
| 1:18.3 | cyber threats? And Uber drivers in the UK recently won a victory for better working rights, |
| 1:23.9 | but is crowd-tasking the next part of the gig economy to face calls for reform? |
| 1:28.7 | With me on the show today is BBC tech reporter Christina Criddle. |
| 1:31.9 | Christina, what have you been up to this week? |
| 1:34.0 | Hi, well, I've been trying to stop myself from shopping so much |
| 1:37.3 | and I've been covering this new feature that YouTube's testing out |
| 1:40.2 | where it finds items in the videos that you watch and recommends them to you. |
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