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Intel’s plans for a German semi-conductor factory are in trouble. The chip-maker says it needs 3,000 people to staff the project; “this year, the local apprentice programme for chip-making technicians is training two”, says Jimmy Vielkind in The Wall Street Journal. Despite receiving €10bn in federal subsidies – a bid to pivot the German economy to new industries and double the EU’s share of global chip production – Intel has struggled with a shortage of skilled workers, a Byzantine bureaucracy, and
