SAN JOSE, Calif., August 22, 2025 – Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) will participate in the 2025 Deutsche Bank Technology Conference.
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Thursday, Aug 28, 2025
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Mark Patterson, EVP & Chief Financial Officer
Jeetu Patel, President & Chief Product Officer
During the conference, Cisco management and Investor Relations will also participate in Investor Meetings on Thursday, Aug 28, 2025.
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When Texas Instruments announced a $60 billion manufacturing megaproject in July, it was a bold bet that companies would want to mass produce foundational microchips on U.S. soil. In August, Apple vowed to do just that.
During the same Oval Office press conference where President Donald Trump announced a 100% tariff on chips from companies not manufacturing in the U.S., Apple CEO Tim Cook upped his companies’ U.S. spending commitment to $600 billion over the next four years, up from an original $500 billion announcement in February.
Part of that spending, Cook said, will go toward making “critical foundation semiconductors” for iPhones and other devices at Texas Instruments’ new chip fabrication plants in Utah and Texas.
In July, CNBC became the first news organization to see the inside of TI’s newest fab in Sherman, Texas. There, full production is on schedule to start by the end of 2025. It’s one of seven new factories the chipmaker is building in the U.S. to provide chips to major customers like Nvidia, Ford Motor, Medtronic and SpaceX.
Although Texas Instruments doesn’t make the world’s most advanced chips, its essential components are found almost everywhere, from smartphones to the graphics processing units powering generative AI.
“If you have anything that plugs into the wall, or has a battery in it, or has a cord in it, you probably carry more than one TI chip in it,” said Mohammad Yunus, TI’s senior VP of technology and manufacturing.
But just one month after TI announced the $60 million project, its shares plummeted 13% following weak guidance and tariff concerns raised in its July 23 earnings call.
“The worry is their end customers. Like in the wake of tariff uncertainty, they don’t know what to expect. Are they stockpiling?” said Stacy Rasgon, senior analyst at Bernstein Research.
It remains to be seen whether demand will remain high once tariff uncertainties calm. Still, shares did recover some ground in August.
“I would position them as more of a tariff winner than a tariff loser,” said Timothy Arcuri, managing director at UBS. Arcuri said TI’s U.S. foundry will allow it to undercut the pricing of its rivals’ Taiwan-made chips.
The market for TI’s chips, however, is not a guarantee. After TI had trouble keeping up with demand during the chip shortage in 2020, Arcuri said TI’s share of the analog market “fell off a cliff.” It went from a high of 19.8% in 2020 to a low of 14.7% in 2024, according to UBS.
TI’s $60 billion megaproject includes four fabs in Sherman, Texas, one in Richardson, Texas, and two in Lehi, Utah. The new fabs will give TI five times the capacity it has today, Yunus told CNBC.
“They’re making a big bet on the fact that they regain share and that demand comes rocketing back,” Arcuri said. “If you don’t regain that share, it’s hard to justify building this much capacity.”
SM1 and SM2, the first two of four new chip fabrication plants being built by Texas Instruments in Sherman, Texas, shown on July 24, 2025.
Graham Merwin
Ramping to 300mm
While TI is well known for its graphing calculators, the company is also responsible for helping revolutionize the electronics industry. In 1958, TI engineer Jack Kilby filed the first patent for an integrated circuit. That paved the way for miniaturizing chips by building all the components of a circuit, not just the transistors, directly into a single piece of silicon.
The majority of TI’s business today comes from automotive and industrial customers that buy the company’s analog and embedded chips. Analog chips process signals like sound, light and pressure, like the temperature on a thermostat or voltage on power management chips that keep electronics safe when plugged in. Embedded chips are typically signal processors and microcontrollers for operating everyday devices, like telling the toaster to ding, the dishwasher to end a cycle or anti-lock brakes to engage.
Unlike the costly bleeding edge 2 and 3 nanometer chips made by giants like TSMC, TI’s chips are made on cheaper, legacy nodes: 45 to 130 nanometers.
That size “is the sweet spot for analog and embedded because they provide the right performance, the power, the voltage that our portfolio needs,” Yunus said.
While each TI chip costs about $0.40, according to Arcuri, they play crucial supporting roles for the world’s most advanced technologies. In a new partnership with Nvidia, for example, TI is developing a chip to drive efficiency in power-hungry data centers.
In 2009, TI made another bold move to help bring the cost of its chips down further. It opened the world’s first 300 millimeter fab for analogchips, re-purposing a memory fab from Qimonda after the chipmaker went bankrupt in the financial crisis.
“That’s what really was the catalyst for TI to have such a cost advantage,” Arcuri said.
The new wafer size gives TI “tremendous cost efficiency” because 300mm can fit “2.3 times more chips in it versus a 200mm wafer,” Yunus said. TI’s been closing and selling off some of its 200mm fabs, and all of its seven new fabs will produce on 300mm wafers.
Texas Instruments senior VP of technology and manufacturing Mohammad Yunus talks to CNBC’s Katie Tarasov in the first of TI’s four new chip fabrication plants in Sherman, Texas, on July 24, 2025.
Graham Merwin
Global supply, Texas growth
TI told CNBC it’s the country’s biggest analog and embedded semiconductor manufacturer, selling tens of billionsof chips each year. About 60% of revenue comes from customers based outside the U.S., with China making up about 20%.
About 75% of TI’s capital spend happens in the U.S., but it also makes chips abroad at fabs in Germany, Japan and China, the company told CNBC. It does testing and assembly in Mexico, Taiwan, the Philippines and Malaysia, where it’s spending $3 billion on two new sites, one of which is now in production.
TI’s global footprint is a benefit in the “dynamic situation” of tariffs right now, Yunus said.
“Our manufacturing across 15 different sites provides us the position to be able to support our customers, no matter where they are and in any political or economic environment,” he said.
Although TI considered building its new sites internationally in places like Singapore, the company ultimately settled on Sherman, Texas. The small city 65 miles north of Dallas has a population of just 50,000 people. It’s also home to a GlobalWafers factory. The Taiwan-based company manufactures the bare silicon wafers that chips, including TI’s, are made on.
Sherman Mayor Shawn Teamann said the city is now “the hub of the Silicon Prairie.”
Teamann’s grandfather worked alongside Kilby at TI in the 1950s. TI first came to Sherman in 1966, but when it announced plans to close its outdated 150mm fab, the city enticed TI to stay with incentives like tax breaks and water discounts.
The plan worked, and in 2021, TI announced it would stay in Sherman with acampus of new 300mm fabs. Now, the first of four 300mm fabs is complete in Sherman. Teamann said the 300mm project has more than doubled the city’s rate of population growth since it was announced in 2021.
As for federal support, TI got $1.6 billion of CHIPS Act funding, and a whopping 35% investment tax credit from Trump’s big bill passed in July.
At the state level, Gov. Greg Abbott has long offered incentives to chip companies willing to build in the state, from low taxes to the $1.4 billion Texas CHIPS Act passed in 2023.
Samsung is the other chip giant in Texas since 1996. The South Korean company is building a $17 billion advanced chip fab near Austin. That’s also where Apple, Amazon and AMD design many of their chips. Other chip companies in Texas include Infineon, NXP, X-Fab, Micron, GlobalFoundries, and tool supplier Applied Materials.
Water, power, workers
Making chips takes an immense amount of water, and about a quarter of Texas is in drought.
Luckily, Sherman has water rights to nearby Lake Texoma.
“It was about acquiring more rights, ramping up our production and being able to provide for the mass quantities of water it takes to run a semiconductor facility,” said Teamann, adding that the fab has almost doubled the amount of water Sherman uses.
TI will use about 1,700 gallons of water per minute when the new Sherman fab is complete, with plans to recycle at least 50% of that, Yunus said.
Chip manufacturing is also a power hungry process, so it helps that Sherman has a power plant that recently increased capacity. TI’s new Sherman fab will run entirely on renewable energy, said Yunus, adding that making chips on 300mm wafers also helps with energy efficiency.
“You use pretty much the same amount of energy but produce 2.2 to 2.3 times more chips,” he said.
Texas’ uniquely independent grid largely cuts the state off from borrowing power across state lines. In 2021, that grid failed during an extreme winter storm, causing at least 57 deaths and halting production at chipmakers like Samsung and NXP. TI told CNBC it maintained “critical operations.”
“We built redundancy into this facility,” Yunus said. “We have multiple transmission lines that feed power into the site. We also have large diesel storage tanks that we’re able to use, and generators that can continue to power the site for a few days.”
Highly skilled chip engineers are another scarce resource. It’s a talent pipeline that’s been stymied by the dramatic decline of U.S. global semiconductor manufacturing. The U.S. went from holding a 37% share of the market in 1990 to just 10% in 2022, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association.
But TI has developed partnerships with various universities, community colleges and the military to fill the talent gap necessary to fill the roles at its Sherman fab.
“There’s a lot of younger people moving to the area. I actually think it’s going to be easier for them to get the talent now than it would have been 5 to 10 years ago,” Arcuri said.
With the full $60 billion project, TI said it expects to create 60,000 U.S. jobs, but the company could not give an expected completion date when asked for one.
“It’s hard to predict when exactly that will take off,” Yunus said. “We’re hopeful that we’ll continue to build out at a pretty brisk pace, but it really depends on the market.”
NEW DELHI (Reuters) -India’s renewable energy developers must align their growth plans with realistic demand projections to avoid the risk of infrastructure investments becoming unprofitable, a power ministry advisor said on Friday.
Speaking at the BloombergNEF Summit in New Delhi, Central Electricity Authority (CEA) Chairman Ghanshyam Prasad warned against building renewable capacity without corresponding demand growth, a challenge the sector has faced in the past.
“If we add 60 GW next year, will it get sold? Probably not,” he said, noting that existing renewable capacity remains unsold.
With electricity supply outpacing demand, grid operators have been forced to curtail power input to maintain system balance.
India has about 44 gigawatts (GW) of renewable projects without supply agreements, Reuters reported earlier this month.
Prasad said that India had suffered from thermal power overcapacity in the past decade.
“Generators were at a loss. Some even faced bankruptcy issues. Let’s not enter an era of stressed assets again,” he said.
Prasad also stressed the importance of better coordination between renewable energy developers and those building transmission lines, warning that having transmission ready does not automatically mean the power will be used.
“We have substations like the one at Khavda (in the western state of Gujarat) with a 4,000 (megawatts) MW capacity, but only 300–500 MW has been hooked up.”
He urged developers developers to submit grid connection requests at least 24-36 months in advance to ensure timely integration.
Several industry representatives at the summit said India’s power transmission sector requires more comprehensive reforms.
“We are able to add capacity very quickly but the need is to distribute that capacity at the equal pace through transmission. That investment is missing, because the whole focus is on the generation side,” said Sanjeev Aggarwal, founder and executive Chairman of Hexa Climate Solutions.
(Reporting by Sethuraman N R in New Delhi; editing by Clelia Oziel)
Comets are like the archeological sites of the solar system. They formed early on, and their composition helps us understand what the area around the early Sun was like, potentially even before any planets were formed. A new paper from researchers at a variety of US and European institutions used the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) to capture detailed spatial spectral images of comet 12P/Pons-Brooks, which is very similar to the famous Halley’s comet, and might hold clues to where the water on the Earth came from.
It might not be intuitively obvious just looking at it, but there are three types of water in Earth’s ocean. H2O, what we think of as regular water, is the most common, but there’s another, less common type known as semi-heavy water. Semi-heavy water replaces one of the hydrogen atoms in a water molecule with a deuterium atom – essentially a “heavy” version of hydrogen with two neutrons. About one in every 3,200 water molecules in the oceans is made up of this semi-heavy molecule, which is known as the D/H ratio. Even more rare is the true “heavy” water, where both hydrogen atoms are replaced with deuterium, which only happens in one in every 41 million water molecules.
The ratio of regular water to semi-heavy water has been of interest to astronomers for a long time as it can be used as evidence for where that water came from. There aren’t any biological or chemical processes that would change that ratio on a global scale, so it should be the same as when water was first delivered to Earth. Astronomers had long debated whether or not comets were that delivery mechanism, but data so far had been mixed as best about whether the ratio of semi-heavy water to water in the comets themselves was the same as that on Earth.
Fraser discusses the Oort Cloud, the source of many comets.
Most previous comets that had been observed had higher D/H ratios in the water in their coma than that of Earth’s oceans, calling into question whether they were the original source. However, more recently comets from other “families”, such as Oort-cloud comets and Jupiter-family comets, which have a distinct orbital path from Halley-types like 12P/Pons-Brooks, have been found to have the correct D/H ratio, bringing these interplanetary travelers back into the spotlight as a potential source of Earth’s water.
However, up until now, no one had yet found the correct D/H ratio in a Halley-type comet. That’s really the most important finding of the new paper – ALMA watched the coma of 12P/Pons-Brooks in April and May 2024, with one continual week-long observational period capturing data on the semi-heavy water in it, and a single day capturing the much stronger spectrographic signal of the normal water.
To reconcile these two observational times, and any changes that might have occurred between them, the researchers used a radiative transfer model based on methanol, another common cometary gas, as a proxy for the potential variability in the rate of water production. To prove this point, the researchers also utilized data from the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility to prove that the production rate of both methanol and water didn’t change. Importantly, this proved that both the water and semi-heavy water in the coma was being produced by sublimation from the nucleus, not through chemical reactions in the coma itself.
Dr. Paul Hartogh discusses the D/H ratio in comets. Credit – Serious Science YouTube Channel
One added feature of the ALMA data was its spatial resolution, and it was the first time that spatial data of these ratios was obtained for a Halley-type comet. While that particular finding didn’t have a major impact on the overall D/H ratio, it might be useful for future studies on the physics of comets. It can also be combined with spatial data from other types of comets that hint at an interesting theory – that, despite our different labels for them, they might have all come from the same place originally. The ratios are similar enough that the researchers suggest that the comets might have developed within 10AU of each other in the early solar system, essentially making only what happened to them afterward the differentiator between what we now view as different classes of comets.
More data is needed to prove that theory, but if it is true then comets are not only spectacular visitors that light up the sky every so often. They are a common thread that ties everything in the solar system together throughout its billion year history. While this paper in particular contributes to our understanding of that, and how they might have been the driving force of the creation of Earth’s oceans, there’s still a lot we don’t know about them – which means it is indeed time to collect more data.
Learn More:
NRAO – Halley-type comet’s water holds clues to life on Earth
M. A. Cordiner et al – A D/H Ratio Consistent with Earth’s Water in Halley-type Comet 12P from ALMA HDO Mapping
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Eze grew up playing cage football around Greenwich with his two brothers – who are also both footballers now.
Chimaechi Eze, 22, was released by the Crystal Palace academy this summer – and Ikechi Eze, 28, plays for non-league side Dartford.
“He’s exactly how people see him on TV. Freedom, always smiling, laughing, a good character to be around” is how Chimaechi describes his older brother.
“When he’s playing, I don’t think there’s anything on his mind.
“Growing up where we’re from, it forces you to get good at football quickly, otherwise you’re in trouble because bigger boys are around. If you’re not good, you have to go.
“My favourite football memory is at younger ages – me, Ikechi, Ebere going to the Rec or yellow cages to play football in the early morning and afternoon, and coming back in the evening. Playing football and doing what we love.
“It would get to nine or 10 o’clock and she [their mother] would have to send people to come and get us because we’d been playing out all day.”
After playing football, the brothers would watch clips of footballers – including Ronaldinho and Arsenal legend Thierry Henry – to try to learn their skills.
Ikechi added: “When he was released by Arsenal he ended up very emotional. It showed his human side.
“By the time he was coming here [cages] he was already with academies.
“So the rare time he was allowed to come after a training session, you could tell he had something different from the other players we were kicking with.”
But Eberechi Eze has interests other than football too – and picked up £15,000 weeks before the FA Cup final by winning an online chess competition against other celebrity content creators and athletes.
Lisa Shaw, his teacher at Fossdene Primary School in Charlton, told the BBC: “He didn’t neglect his studies. He was always near the top of the class for his learning.
“When I saw he’d won the chess tournament I thought ‘well done’ but I wasn’t surprised. He was always very determined to do well.”
She tells the story of him inviting children from his old school to watch Palace train.
“He sent a fleet of cars to pick them up. It was very generous,” she says.
“The children look up to him. He has had a lot of setbacks in his career but he was resilient. That’s why he’s such a good role model.”
LinkedIn is famous for being the official corporate social media. And if you have so many people trying to show the authentic side of their working routines, you cannot allow fake engagement.
Seems like the LinkedIn running folks have heard the prayers of all the LinkedIn influencers. Hidden in an official document, LinkedIn is now going to reduce the visibility of comments posted via automation tools or made in quick succession.
Why LinkedIn Is Cracking Down Now
As LinkedIn experiences record user engagement, concerns over fabricated interactions i.e., generated through comment “pods” or AI tools have intensified. To address this, LinkedIn added a line to its comment guidelines emphasizing that comments produced at scale or via automation may see limited visibility.
What This Means for Users, Marketers, and Bots
Human users win as authenticity now matters more than ever, with quality and thoughtful comments likely to carry more weight as LinkedIn deprioritizes automated noise. Marketers must adapt because relying on AI-generated replies or scheduled bulk commenting could now hurt visibility, making the shift toward meaningful engagement a necessity.
Bots and engagement pods are also losing ground as LinkedIn’s latest move signals that algorithmic detection is actively punishing mass comments shared mechanically.
While enforcement remains a challenge, the rule positions corporate social giant to take more stringent actions if needed, even hinting at future legal enforcement like in past data scraping cases.
What’s Next for Engagement on LinkedIn
As machine learning evolves, detect tools will likely get sharper, targeting behavioral patterns associated with automation. Users and brands may need to rely more on creativity, value, and genuine discourse if they expect to sustain reach.
Think of it as a call to dial up authenticity. On LinkedIn, real voices may soon rise above fake noise. And that could reshape the content game entirely.
Oliver Goethe is the latest member of the grid to take us through his 2025 helmet, as the MP Motorsport driver gives us a bit more insight into how his lid was designed.
The German talks us through it all, from the reason behind the colours on his helmet and how they compare to the ones he used in formative racing years.
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“First of all, it’s a Red Bull helmet, and I think they look the best. It looks really cool with a Red Bull branded logo. Obviously, I am in the academy, so they are my main sponsor, so happy to have them on my helmet.
“Apart from that, the colours I have gone for, apart from the Red Bull colours, I like blue and orange. I am also sponsored by Gulf, and I have been throughout my whole career.
“It’s the main gulf colours. I also have some other sponsors, Motorsport Team Germany, another sponsor of mine, so they have a sticker there.
Goethe gave told us how his 2025 helmet was designed
“But this year I’ve gone for a little design on the back, with my initials OG. I think they are pretty cool initials so I like to put it on the back.
“In other years I have had some designs with animated characters but this year I have gone a bit simpler, just OG.
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“This is a Stilo, I’ve been using Stilo for a few years now, so very happy with it. I’ve got my name and nationalities, so Danish and German, I’ve got both flags on the helmet as well.
“I am not the one designing the helmets, although I can of course say what I want and make changes, but it’s Red Bull who design the helmet in the end. But to be honest I’m pretty happy with the job they have done.
“I like it like this, it’s very similar to the helmet I had last year, so I didn’t really go with much change from then. But honestly, I am not too fussed about these kinds of things. I like it like this, and I don’t want to overcomplicate it either.
Goethe revealed how his current helmet differs from the ones he had at the start of his career
“It’s a bit different to my first racing helmet in karts, it was all white and in cars it was just black, so there is some colour on this one.
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“It’s nice to have a design on this one, because my first helmets I had no design. So, it’s definitely a bit more professional and aesthetically pleasing to have a bit more of a design.
“I don’t really have a plan for a special helmet, I think that’s pretty cool, to have a special helmet for a round, but maybe next year, it will bring some luck.”
The US is reviewing the records of more than 55 million US visa holders to assess if they have broken conditions for entry or stay in the country.
People with US visas will be under “continuous vetting”, a state department spokesperson told the Associated Press news agency.
Visas will be revoked if there are indications of “overstays, criminal activity, threats to public safety, engaging in any form of terrorist activity, or providing support to a terrorist organisation”, an official said.
President Donald Trump has made anti-immigration the cornerstone of his second administration, from mass deportations and full-on travel bans on countries to revoking 6,000 student visas.
As part of the wide-ranging review, prospective students and visitors to the US will be subjected to social media vetting with officials looking for “any indications of hostility toward the citizens, culture, government, institutions, or founding principles of the United States”.
State Department officers have also been instructed to spot individuals “who advocate for, aid, or support designated foreign terrorists and other threats to national security; or who perpetrate unlawful antisemitic harassment or violence”.
Matthew Tragesser, a spokesperson from US Citizenship and Immigration Services, said in a statement: “America’s benefits should not be given to those who despise the country and promote anti-American ideologies.”
He added that the immigration service was committed to “implementing policies” that “root out anti-Americanism”.
The latest announcement came after Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the US would “immediately” pause the issuance of worker visas for truck drivers.
“The increasing number of foreign drivers operating large tractor-trailer trucks on U.S. roads is endangering American lives and undercutting the livelihoods of American truckers,” Rubio wrote in a post on X on Thursday.
Since Trump came to power in January, several foreign students have been arrested at US university campuses for taking part in protests against the conduct of the war in the Gaza Strip by Israel – which is supported by the US.
A few weeks ago, the US announced that citizens from Malawi and Zambia would be required to pay a $15,000 (£11,300) deposit for a tourist or business visa.
Trump has also banned foreign nationals from 12 countries from travelling to the US and imposed partial restrictions on another seven.
In May, the Trump’s administration was allowed to temporarily revoke the legal status of over 500,000 migrants living in the US. He has even vowed to end birth right citizenship.
A British Airways flight attendant was found naked in an onboard toilet while under the influence of drugs, a court has heard.
Haden Pentecost, 41, was working on a flight from California to London when he started to become agitated and was described as “sweating” and “babbling”.
A blood test later revealed Pentecost had methamphetamine and amphetamines in his system.
Pentecost, who has been sacked, pleaded guilty at Uxbridge Magistrates’ Court to performing an aviation function while impaired by drugs.
The court heard Pentecost had to be stood down by his manager when he failed to help with any pre-flight safety checks.
After complaining of cramps and saying he had to change his clothes, he locked himself in one of the toilets – where a colleague later found him naked and oblivious to the fact, the court was told.
He had dilated pupils, a high heart rate, and had to be checked every 20 minutes until the plane arrived at Heathrow. Paramedics then took Pentecost to hospital.
Pentecost, of Basingstoke, was granted bail and will be sentenced at Isleworth Crown Court at a later date.
British Airways has been approached by the BBC for comment.
Pakistan’s javelin thrower Yasir Sultan in action during the Asian Throwing Championship in South Korea on August 22, 2025. — ScreengrabviaInstagram/yasir__sultan
Pakistan’s javelin thrower Muhammad Yasir Sultan claimed the bronze medal at the Asian Throwing Championships on Friday with a season-best throw of 77.43 metres.
The 27-year-old athlete delivered his best effort on the sixth and final attempt, surpassing his previous season-best of 76.07m, which he had set at the Asian Athletics Championships earlier in May.
Yasir’s impressive final throw secured him third place on the podium in a highly competitive field.
Sri Lanka’s Pathirage Rumesh Tharanga took gold with a powerful throw of 82.05 metres — the only throw over the 80-metre mark during the event. Japan’s Gen Naganuma earned the silver medal with a best attempt of 78.60 metres.
Yasir was Pakistan’s sole participant at the event. He was accompanied by national coach Fayyaz Bukhari during the competition.
Meanwhile, Pakistan’s star javelin sensation and Olympic gold medallist Arshad Nadeem did not feature in the championship.
Arshad is currently in the rehabilitation phase following surgery and is yet to regain full fitness. He underwent successful surgery on his calf muscles last month in Cambridge.
He will also not be participating in the upcoming Poland and Switzerland Diamond League.
Arshad captured global attention last year when he shattered the Olympic javelin record with a remarkable throw of 92.97 metres at the Paris Olympics and clinched the coveted gold medal.
