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Articles from asia.nikkei.com

Japan faces bottlenecks in data center construction due to labor shortages and more; DC Byte says Japan's capacity has tripled to 6.8 GW in the past five years (asia.nikkei.com)
2 days ago Japan

Sources: Micron plans to invest $9.6B in Japan to build a production facility for next-gen HBM memory chips beginning in 2026, with shipments expected in 2028 (asia.nikkei.com)
8 days ago Japan

Japanese chipmaker Rapidus plans to start building a second plant in Hokkaido in fiscal 2027, aiming to make advanced 1.4nm chips as early as 2029 (asia.nikkei.com)
12 days ago Japan

Industry executives say nearly all major memory chipmakers are running at or near full capacity, with 2026 production slots almost “sold out” due to AI demand (asia.nikkei.com)
14 days ago AI

Shipments of AI servers from Taiwan to the US are set to double in 2025 vs. 2024, as Foxconn, Quanta, and Wistron ramp up production to meet demand (asia.nikkei.com)
17 days ago Taiwan AI

A look at Huawei's efforts to build an independent Chinese chip supply chain; through vehicles like Hubble, it has invested in 60+ chip companies since 2019 (asia.nikkei.com)
18 days ago China

Tokyo-based Sakana AI becomes Japan's most valuable unicorn at a ~$2.6B valuation, following a ~$130M raise from Mitsubishi UFJ Financial and US VC firms (asia.nikkei.com)
21 days ago Japan AI Tokyo Mitsubishi

Shares of Indian payment startup Pine Labs debuted at ~$2.73, up 9.5% from the ~$2.49 IPO price, after a $440M IPO earlier this week that was 2x oversubscribed (asia.nikkei.com)
23 days ago India IPO Startup

A look at US efforts to train workers for semiconductor manufacturing, led by Arizona, which has secured over 60 semiconductor expansion projects since 2020 (asia.nikkei.com)
2025-11-5 Manufacturing

Sixty-five countries sign a UN cybercrime treaty to share data and extradite suspects, despite privacy and security concerns from tech companies and activists (asia.nikkei.com)
2025-10-27

Chinese robovan startup Neolix raised $600M led by UAE-based Stone Venture without disclosing its valuation, ahead of a potential Hong Kong IPO as soon as 2026 (asia.nikkei.com)
2025-10-23 China Hong Kong IPO Startup

Sources: Apple cuts iPhone Air orders nearly to “end of production” levels after a lukewarm reception in China, but keeps iPhone 17 lineup forecasts at 85M-90M (asia.nikkei.com)
2025-10-22 China iPhone Apple

China is racing ahead of the rest of the world in the adoption of robovans, despite limitations like slow speeds; Neolix has deployed 10,000 robovans so far (asia.nikkei.com)
2025-10-22 China

Analysis: agencies have hired hundreds of thousands of “chatters” to impersonate 4M+ OnlyFans creators, as many Filipino chatters struggle with mental health (asia.nikkei.com)
2025-10-21

Sources: Microsoft aims to produce most new products, including servers and Surface laptops, outside China from 2026; AWS is also adopting a similar strategy (asia.nikkei.com)
2025-10-16 China Microsoft

SEMI: US chip fab investment to outpace China, Taiwan, and South Korea from 2027, driven by AI demand and US policies, rising from $21B in 2025 to $43B in 2028 (asia.nikkei.com)
2025-10-12 China Korea Taiwan AI

Chinese silicon wafer manufacturers like Eswin have rapidly gained market share by undercutting global leaders, such as Japan's Shin-Etsu Chemical, on price (asia.nikkei.com)
2025-10-8 China Japan

SoftBank Group consolidates 13 robotics-related companies from its main group and 7 from Vision Fund 2 into a new holding company called SoftBank Robotics Group (asia.nikkei.com)
2025-10-6 Robot

PitchBook: VC investment in Asia slowed to $48.9B in the first nine months of 2025, just over half of 2024's total, amid uncertainty due to US tariff policies (asia.nikkei.com)
2025-10-5 Asia

Singapore dollar-pegged XSGD stablecoin debuts on Coinbase, giving the city-state a head start over Hong Kong in launching a local currency-linked stablecoin (asia.nikkei.com)
2025-10-4 Hong Kong Singapore Coinbase

DealStreetAsia: VC funding in Indonesian startups fell to just $80M in H1 2025 from $200M a year earlier, as startups face fallout from corruption scandals (asia.nikkei.com)
2025-9-25 Startup Indonesia

OECD lists 1,300+ AI regulations, guidelines, and other policies worldwide as of September 2025, up ~30% since 2022, but international cooperation has stalled (asia.nikkei.com)
2025-9-22 AI

Foxmont and BCG report: Philippine startups raised a record $1.12B in 2024, up 16.7% YoY, with foreign investment rising to 52.5%, but regulatory hurdles remain (asia.nikkei.com)
2025-9-17 Startup Philippines

Shanghai-based, US-listed lidar maker Hesai jumped 7.7% in its Hong Kong debut, giving the company a ~$4.5B market cap after raising ~$514M from the IPO (asia.nikkei.com)
2025-9-16 Hong Kong IPO Shanghai

Japan says it will provide $3.63B to Micron for R&D and capital spending at its Hiroshima fab to mass produce advanced DRAM, aiming for shipments by August 2028 (asia.nikkei.com)
2025-9-14 Japan

Thailand, aiming to become the second-largest PCB production hub, is witnessing a tech manufacturing boom as the PCB supply chain shifts from China and Taiwan (asia.nikkei.com)
2025-9-6 China Taiwan Thailand Manufacturing

Philippines government data: online gambling revenue in the country overtook traditional casinos in H1 2025, generating ~$2B, or 53%+ of the industry's total (asia.nikkei.com)
2025-9-3 Philippines

IDC: in Q1 2025, the world's top four robot vacuum makers, all from China, together accounted for 54.1% of shipments, as iRobot fell from first to fifth place (asia.nikkei.com)
2025-9-3 China Robot

Sources: the $550B US-Japan investment framework, central to the trade agreement, was heavily influenced by Masayoshi Son, with the Stargate Project tied to it (asia.nikkei.com)
2025-8-28 Japan

SoftBank shares are up 61% in 2025, making it one of Tokyo's top performers, on the back of AI and chip investments, as some investors question the upside (asia.nikkei.com)
2025-8-26 AI Tokyo

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