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The Indian Rupee at a Record Low Tests How Far the RBI Will Go Before Adding Capital Controls

Above: The financial district at first light, viewed from North Sound. The territory administers more than $4 trillion in regulated assets — roughly four percent of the world's hedge fund capital. — for The Journal

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The Indian Rupee at a Record Low Tests How Far the RBI Will Go Before Adding Capital Controls

The rupee's slide to record lows is putting India's central bank in a familiar but uncomfortable position — and capital-controls speculation is now part of the conversation.

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Analog Devices' $1.5 Billion Bid for Empower Confirms That Power-Delivery Is the Next AI Bottleneck

Analog Devices' $1.5 Billion Bid for Empower Confirms That Power-Delivery Is the Next AI Bottleneck

ADI's deal for Empower Semiconductor moves the analog incumbent firmly into vertical power delivery for AI servers — a category that has gone from afterthought to constraint.

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Analog Devices' agreement to buy Empower Semiconductor for $1.5 billion is the clearest signal yet that vertical power delivery — getting clean voltage into a high-density AI accelerator efficiently and without spatial penalty — has become a strategic chokepoint in the data-center stack. ADI is paying a premium to consolidate a category that two years ago b