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The Godfather of South Korea’s Chip Industry

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Around the world, many of Kim’s protégés were lauded for their brilliant success in transforming the economy of a nation that had just started assembling radio sets in 1959 and was fabricating outdated memory chips in the early ’80s. That success can be traced in part to Kim, now an emeritus professor at KAIST. Kim Choong-Ki.

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Inside the Global Race to Tap Potent Offshore Wind

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Ireland, South Korea, and Taiwan are among the other countries with bold floating wind ambitions. What the industry really needs to drive down costs, they say, is economies of scale. “In Big corporate players are taking up the multirotor and downwind designs. Pacific coast could support 100 GW more by midcentury.

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