The final chip challenge: Can China build its own ASML?

The final chip challenge: Can China build its own ASML?

In southeastern Beijing, engineers at Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp., China’s top chipmaker, are working around the clock to expand the output of 14-nanometer and even 7-nm chips, just a few generations behind the world’s leading chipmakers. Being able to make such advanced chips at all is a major breakthrough for a company that has been…

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Extreme ‘clean’ eating can tip healthy eaters into a danger zone

Extreme ‘clean’ eating can tip healthy eaters into a danger zone

Bratman’s work observed two stages of orthorexia. Healthy orthorexia, with an interest in healthy eating with no pathological features, and orthorexia nervosa, with an obsessive focus on healthy eating. “Many people are able to eat healthy without being orthorexic,” says Bratman. “The difference is the obsessiveness and restriction that causes harm.” In 1997, physician Steven…

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