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Articles from asia.nikkei.com

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)
14 hours ago 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)
1 day ago 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)
2 days ago 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)
11 days ago 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)
14 days ago 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)
19 days ago 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)
20 days ago 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)
22 days ago 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)
30 days ago 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

Sources: TSMC plans to drop Chinese chipmaking equipment, including AMEC's etching tools, from its most advanced 2nm production to avoid potential US backlash (asia.nikkei.com)
2025-8-25 China

Jensen Huang says Nvidia is in talks with China over H20 security concerns, is hopeful for a resolution, and reiterates that the H20 has no “security backdoors” (asia.nikkei.com)
2025-8-22 China Nvidia

How Chinese streaming giants iQiyi and Tencent are gaining on Netflix in Southeast Asia through original productions and free, ad-supported services (asia.nikkei.com)
2025-8-18 China Asia Netflix Tencent Southeast Asia

Foxconn's AI server business surged 60%+ YoY in Q2, surpassing revenue from Apple-related products for the first time, and is projected to grow 170% YoY in Q3 (asia.nikkei.com)
2025-8-15 AI Apple

Singapore's three neobanks, GXS Bank, MariBank, and Trust Bank, together posted $278.1M in losses in 2024 as legacy rivals digitalized, intensifying competition (asia.nikkei.com)
2025-8-13 Singapore

A steady stream of large conventions in China showcasing homegrown humanoid robots is stirring investor excitement, even though sales are far from taking off (asia.nikkei.com)
2025-8-10 China Robot

Sources: TSMC fires several employees for violating rules on obtaining sensitive information about its 2nm tech; TSMC says it detected “unauthorized activities” (asia.nikkei.com)
2025-8-7

DRAM prices remain high after doubling from May 2025 to June 2025, amid speculation that China's CXMT may have halted DDR4 production to focus on DDR5 and HBM (asia.nikkei.com)
2025-8-7 China

Gamma Data: China's female-oriented gaming market surged 124% YoY to $1B in 2024, driven by mobile game Love and Deepspace, which earned $400M, per Sensor Tower (asia.nikkei.com)
2025-7-24 China Mobile Sensor

TSMC CEO C.C. Wei says the company is speeding up construction of its second and third plants in Arizona “by several quarters” to meet robust US chip demand (asia.nikkei.com)
2025-7-17

Satellite imagery and eyewitness testimony reveal that online scam centers are proliferating rapidly in Myanmar despite a large-scale crackdown in February (asia.nikkei.com)
2025-7-14

Apple supplier Lens Technology, one of the top smartphone part makers, raised ~$608M in its Hong Kong IPO, as the Chinese company looks to expand overseas (asia.nikkei.com)
2025-7-9 China Hong Kong IPO Apple

Investigation: preprint research papers on arXiv from 14 academic institutions in eight countries had hidden prompts telling AI tools to give positive reviews (asia.nikkei.com)
2025-7-6 AI

Sources: Samsung is delaying completion of its Texas fab due to a lack of customers; the plant was meant to come online in 2024 before being pushed to 2026 (asia.nikkei.com)
2025-7-4 Samsung Texas

A look at Tokyo-based Nittobo, currently the only supplier in the world of the highest-end “T-glass”, a material essential for making high-powered AI servers (asia.nikkei.com)
2025-6-26 AI Tokyo

Chinese automaker Geely's ride-hailing arm CaoCao raised $236M in a Hong Kong IPO, listing 19% below its offer price; its market cap was $2.42B as of Wednesday (asia.nikkei.com)
2025-6-26 China Hong Kong IPO

TSMC opens a joint research lab with the University of Tokyo, the company's first with a university outside Taiwan, expanding a relationship that began in 2019 (asia.nikkei.com)
2025-6-12 Taiwan Tokyo

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