Surprising no one, a planned Trump Tower in Jeddah is raising questions in the foreign press on possible conflicts of interest if Donald Trump makes his way again to the White House. The plans announced by Dar Global and the Trump Organization is leading international media coverage with ink from Bloomberg | The New York Times | and CNN.

What the pundits are saying: “The Trump Organization’s continued pursuit of foreign business projects raises perilous national security, corruption and constitutional concerns,” as US advocacy group told CNN.

Meanwhile, Bloomberg looks at our drive to build a domestic semiconductor industry. Naveed Sherwani, who is leading the government’s National Semiconductor Hub, spoke on the Kingdom’s ambitions for the industry, telling the business information service that the hub is focusing on “everyday use chips” which are needed in every market (watch, runtime: 7:35). “We want to build that human resource and the ecosystem to work on the kind of chips that we can over the next five to seven years,” he said. “Once we have that capability, we can start doing a little bit more complicated chips.”

About the hub: The government is setting up the National Semiconductor Hub, which will be used “to develop so-called fabless chip companies that design new semiconductors.” The government hopes to attract 25 experts and 5k engineers specialized in semiconductor design, with a focus on simple chips, rather than advanced technology,

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