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Geopolitics News 20 June 2025 - 15 September 2025

NVIDIA’s $4 Trillion AI Revolution: How the Chipmaker Overtook Apple and Microsoft

Nvidia in China’s Crosshairs: Inside the High-Stakes Chip War Showdown

Background: Nvidia’s Role in AI and Chips A building at Nvidia’s headquarters. Nvidia is the world’s leading maker of advanced graphics processors and AI accelerator chips, which have become strategic assets in the global tech industry Abc17News. Nvidia is a Silicon Valley-based semiconductor company renowned for its powerful graphics processing units (GPUs) – chips that excel at the parallel computations…
15 September 2025
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Putin–Trump Anchorage Summit: Secret Tech Deals, Cyber Power Plays, and the Arctic Icebreaker Gamble

Putin–Trump Anchorage Summit: Secret Tech Deals, Cyber Power Plays, and the Arctic Icebreaker Gamble

The Anchorage talks occurred in mid-August 2025 in Alaska between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, aimed primarily at ending the war in Ukraine. No public cyber accords were announced at the summit, signaling tacit accommodation on cyber issues. In March 2025, a senior U.S. cyber diplomat omitted Russia from a list of major state cyber threats, signaling a softening stance.…
15 August 2025
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Global Drone Market in Q3 2025: Supply Chain, Geopolitics, and Export Controls

Global Drone Market in Q3 2025: Supply Chain, Geopolitics, and Export Controls

In Q3 2025 the global drone market faces significant supply-chain pressure from component shortages, tariffs, and logistics delays, with China historically dominating motor, ESC, battery, flight controller, camera, sensor, propeller, and carbon-fiber airframe production. After China tightened dual-use drone component exports in late 2024, infrared sensor exports fell by 30% and prices tripled, while U.S.-bound component volume dropped 60% and…
13 July 2025
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Semiconductor Industry Roundup (June–July 2025): Advanced Chips, Equipment, and Geopolitics

Semiconductor Industry Roundup (June–July 2025): Advanced Chips, Equipment, and Geopolitics

In summer 2025, TSMC reported near 90% yield on its 3 nm process, versus Samsung’s roughly 50% yield. Samsung, which pioneered 3 nm gate-all-around transistors in 2022, continues to struggle with yields but has won Google’s Tensor G5 on 3 nm and other new clients for older nodes. TSMC and Samsung are racing toward 2 nm (N2-class) technology, with TSMC’s…
1 July 2025
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Global Semiconductor Industry Trends and 2025 Outlook: AI Boom, Advanced Nodes, and Geopolitics (Report: June 27th, 2025)

Global Semiconductor Industry Trends and 2025 Outlook: AI Boom, Advanced Nodes, and Geopolitics (Report: June 27th, 2025)

Global semiconductor revenue reached $626 billion in 2024, up 18.1% from 2023, with Gartner projecting about $705 billion in 2025. Data-center AI chip sales rose to $112 billion in 2024, up from $64.8 billion in 2023, making generative AI workloads the second-largest semiconductor market after smartphones. Memory revenue jumped about 72% in 2024 and accounted for roughly 25% of total…
27 June 2025
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Operation Midnight Hammer: How Stealth Bombers, Fighters, and Bunker Busters Obliterated Iran’s Nuclear Sites

Operation Midnight Hammer: How Stealth Bombers, Fighters, and Bunker Busters Obliterated Iran’s Nuclear Sites

Operation Midnight Hammer, conducted June 21–22, 2025, targeted Iran’s Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan nuclear sites. Seven B-2 Spirit bombers from the 509th Bomb Wing at Whiteman Air Force Base flew an 18-hour mission to Iran, delivering 14 GBU-57A/B Massive Ordnance Pens, marking the first-ever operational use of the MOP. To maximize surprise, at least six B-2s were observed flying west…
22 June 2025
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Stunning Satellite Images Reveal Fordow Nuclear Facility Cratered by U.S. Airstrike

Stunning Satellite Images Reveal Fordow Nuclear Facility Cratered by U.S. Airstrike

Before the Strike: Trucks and Bulldozers Spotted at Fordow Satellite surveillance captured telltale signs of Iranian preparations at Fordow. On June 19, 2025 a Maxar satellite image shows cargo trucks parked outside the underground entrance of the Fordow complex Foxnews. The next day (June 20) another image reveals bulldozers and heavy vehicles moving toward the tunnel entrance Foxnews. These vehicles…
22 June 2025
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Everything You Need to Know About Iran’s Secretive Fordo Nuclear Facility

Everything You Need to Know About Iran’s Secretive Fordo Nuclear Facility

Fordo, officially Shahid Ali-Mohammadi Nuclear Facility, sits about 30 km northeast of Qom, Iran, built into a mountain on an IRGC base and buried 80–90 meters underground. Western intelligence uncovered Fordo, and Iran formally notified the IAEA on 21 September 2009, shortly after the United States, the United Kingdom and France publicly revealed knowledge of the site. Before the JCPOA,…
22 June 2025
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Stunning Satellite Images Expose the Full Impact of U.S. Airstrikes on Iran’s Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan Nuclear Sites — What the Pictures Reveal, Why They Matter, and What Happens Next

Stunning Satellite Images Expose the Full Impact of U.S. Airstrikes on Iran’s Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan Nuclear Sites — What the Pictures Reveal, Why They Matter, and What Happens Next

On 21 June 2025, the U.S. strike package used B-2 launched GBU-57 bunker-busters and sea-launched Tomahawks to damage Natanz and Isfahan and cut external power to Fordow. Maxar Technologies and Planet imagery circulated minutes after President Trump’s confirmation, enabling open-source observers to map bomb craters, scorched roads, and collapsed roofs at Natanz and Isfahan. IAEA Director-General Rafael Grossi said the…
22 June 2025
Jaw‑Dropping Satellite Photos Expose Israel’s Covert Blows to Iran—What the Images Reveal, Why the Targets Mattered, and What Comes Next

Jaw‑Dropping Satellite Photos Expose Israel’s Covert Blows to Iran—What the Images Reveal, Why the Targets Mattered, and What Comes Next

Maxar imagery taken 24 hours after Israel’s first wave shows two main halls at Natanz collapsed and scorch marks across adjoining centrifuge assembly buildings, while Isfahan reveals precision craters on the centrifuge‑production workshop. Photos published of the Arak/Khondab heavy‑water reactor show shrapnel holes in the under‑construction dome and distillation towers toppled at the neighbouring heavy‑water plant, with the IAEA saying…
21 June 2025
Space Showdown: How Military Satellites Are Shaping the Ukraine‑Russia War

Space Showdown: How Military Satellites Are Shaping the Ukraine‑Russia War

SpaceX deployed 5,000 Starlink terminals to Ukraine within days of the 2022 invasion, rising to about 15,000 active terminals by June 2022, with Ukraine at one point accounting for roughly 58% of global Starlink traffic. Russia attempted to jam Starlink signals on the battlefield, SpaceX rolled a software update to bypass the jamming, and by 2023–2024 reports noted illicit Starlink…
20 June 2025
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Stock Market Today

  • City Developments stock dips ahead of weekend amid Newport Residences launch
    January 31, 2026, 3:32 AM EST. City Developments Limited shares fell 0.6% to close at S$9.28 on Friday, near a 52-week high, despite a 16% rally in January. The property developer is launching bookings for Newport Residences, a 246-unit condo with prices starting at S$1.298 million. CDL Hospitality Trusts reported a 1.2% rise in distributions for H2 2025. Investors will watch Monday's trading closely for post-launch signals and anticipate the company's unaudited FY2025 results release on Feb. 27. The stock's sensitivity to housing and travel sectors remains, with rising funding costs presenting additional risks amid a weaker broader market.
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