Fundamental Thinking

Just about anything with an on-off switch contains a semiconductor chip, but only a few companies produce them, and a chunk of their capital spending goes toward high-tech machinery and other specialized tools provided by Applied Materials, ASML, Lam Research, and many others.

Companies have tried to build and sell humanoid robots for decades but are now figuring out how to do it profitably.

Can tech companies pursue the growth opportunity of generative artificial intelligence and still meet their climate goals?

After missing out on the smartphone era, the company made its software indispensable to the workplace. Now, as businesses look to the new era of artificial intelligence, the Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Azure platforms may be a chosen gateway.

Here are five companies in frontier emerging markets that are prospering as regulatory reform and industrial and technological development alter the trajectory of economic growth in their respective countries.

With the help of the US Inflation Reduction Act and other energy-transition initiatives around the world, at least one obstacle that long stood in the way of green hydrogen production is being knocked down. Several industries stand to benefit.

As attempts to address climate change and energy independence converge, a company from a solar superpower stands to benefit.

What has long been a subject of science fiction—a totally immersive virtual world inhabited by all of humanity—is increasingly a part of Big Tech companies’ plans for future growth. And the winner is…

E-bikes, the latest mobility craze for aging Baby Boomers, may have enough juice to help one venerable component maker engineer a breakaway.

Much of modern digital society now rests on advanced silicon chips made by just two manufacturers—and there is no road back.

With the pandemic accelerating internet wagering’s spread around the world, a handful of seasoned global players vie with new regulation and competition to take their game to the next level.