Update: Intel to invest $20bn in new Ohio chipmaking complex - a podcast by BBC World Service

The American technology firm Intel says it will spend $20 billion dollars to build two semiconductor chip factories in the US state of Ohio as a global shortage continues. Alena Semuels is the Senior Economics Correspondent at Time and explains the significance of the factories. Chris Low of FHN Financial analyses the possible wider impact on the markets. Also on the programme, how long should people isolate when they have Covid? And are businesses able to keep up with the changing rules? Its a question Marketplace's Kai Rysdall put to Cynthia Baur of the University of Maryland School of Public Health



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