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Articles from asia.nikkei.com

As Taiwanese chipmakers push localization to secure supply chains, suppliers to the steel, plastics, and display industries are moving into Taiwan's chip sector (asia.nikkei.com)
23 hours ago Taiwan

Payments using facial recognition are growing in South Korea as the tech improves; South Korean fintech app Toss has scaled its “Facepay” service to 1M+ users (asia.nikkei.com)
1 day ago Korea Fintech Facial Recognition

Sources: China is drafting rules for Nvidia H200 purchases, limiting how many chips local companies can buy and requiring them to justify the need (asia.nikkei.com)
7 days ago China Nvidia

Sources: Apple and Qualcomm are scrambling to secure glass cloth fiber, used in chip substrates and PCBs, as the AI boom boosts demand for the component (asia.nikkei.com)
8 days ago AI Apple

Sources: Google will start developing and making high-end Pixel phones like the Pro and Fold from scratch in Vietnam in 2026; the Pixel A remains in China (asia.nikkei.com)
8 days ago China Google Vietnam

Taiwan's data shows the US became its top export destination in 2025 over China, including Hong Kong, the first time since 1999, partly driven by AI tech demand (asia.nikkei.com)
11 days ago China Hong Kong Taiwan AI

Nvidia says it's seeing “strong” demand from China for its H200 chips but is awaiting approvals from both Washington and Beijing before sales could begin (asia.nikkei.com)
16 days ago China Nvidia

How Arizona is training talent for its growing chip industry as suppliers fear tighter US immigration policy; Arizona has drawn $200B+ in investments since 2020 (asia.nikkei.com)
20 days ago Immigration

Meta says Manus, initially based in Beijing and Wuhan, will cut Chinese investor ties after the deal and “will discontinue its services and operations in China” (asia.nikkei.com)
23 days ago China

Shares of Shenzhen-based OneRobotics opened flat in their HK debut after the Chinese home robotics maker raised $210M by selling 22M+ shares at about $9.50 each (asia.nikkei.com)
23 days ago China Robot Shenzhen

A study finds that foreign direct investment accounts for 98% of Vietnam's electronics exports, “signaling limited technology spillovers” to the local economy (asia.nikkei.com)
25 days ago Vietnam

A teardown of Huawei's Mate 70 Pro and Pura 80 Pro shows 57% of components were made in China; similarly priced Huawei phones in 2023 had 32% Chinese components (asia.nikkei.com)
28 days ago China

Sources: TSMC plans to move chipmaking tools into its second Arizona fab in summer 2026, in line with its push to accelerate US production by “several quarters” (asia.nikkei.com)
2025-12-20

Shares of Super Bank Indonesia, a Grab-backed digital lender, rose by 24% during their stock market debut in Jakarta, after the company raised ~$168M in its IPO (asia.nikkei.com)
2025-12-17 IPO Indonesia

Taiwan opens its largest AI supercomputing data center using Nvidia's Blackwell chips, a major effort in its push for sovereign AI and chip industry innovation (asia.nikkei.com)
2025-12-12 Taiwan AI Nvidia

Chinese state-backed chipmaker Hygon, which makes server CPUs, calls off merger with its top shareholder and server maker Sugon; the merger was announced in May (asia.nikkei.com)
2025-12-10 China

Users of ByteDance's agentic AI phone Nubia M153 report that its Doubao assistant is blocked or limited by Tencent's WeChat, Alibaba's Taobao, and other apps (asia.nikkei.com)
2025-12-8 Alibaba AI WeChat Tencent

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)
2025-12-5 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)
2025-11-30 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)
2025-11-26 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)
2025-11-24 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)
2025-11-20 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)
2025-11-19 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)
2025-11-17 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)
2025-11-14 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

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