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Articles from asia.nikkei.com

UMC, Taiwan's second-largest chipmaker, opened a $5B plant in Singapore featuring 22nm and 28nm manufacturing technology; mass production won't start until 2026 (asia.nikkei.com)
15 hours ago Taiwan Singapore Manufacturing

Sources: GlobalFoundries mulls merging with UMC, Taiwan's 2nd-largest chipmaker, to form a bigger, US-based company with production in Asia, the US, and Europe (asia.nikkei.com)
2 days ago Europe Taiwan Asia

Sources: TSMC, Intel, and other chipmakers have slowed their expansions in Japan and Malaysia due to lackluster demand for older chips and tariff uncertainties (asia.nikkei.com)
4 days ago Japan Intel Malaysia

Sources: after taking five years to build its first US plant, TSMC expects new factories to take two years; a 3nm plant is set for 2028 and 2nm before 2030 (asia.nikkei.com)
6 days ago

Power chip companies Renesas, Infineon, and others are cutting jobs and spending, as disappointing EV market growth leaves them saddled with excess capacity (asia.nikkei.com)
7 days ago

Investors see opportunities in Malaysian tech stocks amid a shift to cheaper AI models like DeepSeek, as the country's chip sector faces US export rules (asia.nikkei.com)
8 days ago AI Malaysia

PitchBook: China led Asia with 715 AI VC deals in 2024, totaling $7.3B, South Korea followed with 308 deals worth $1.8B, and India with 306 deals totaling $1.7B (asia.nikkei.com)
15 days ago China Korea India Asia AI

Sources: SoftBank plans to buy a former Sharp LCD panel plant in Osaka for ~$676M and convert it into a data center for jointly developing AI agents with OpenAI (asia.nikkei.com)
19 days ago AI

Japanese chipmaker Rapidus has been slow to attract private sector investment, with only around $49M invested so far, compared to $6.23B in state assistance (asia.nikkei.com)
20 days ago Japan

Sakana CEO David Ha says its AI CUDA Engineer “cheated” to speed up training by 100x and “preliminary results” show it “will be closer to the 10% to 100% level” (asia.nikkei.com)
21 days ago AI

BeReal CEO Aymeric Roffe says Japan is now the photo sharing app's second-largest market with over 4.5M MAUs, 83% aged 14 to 27; BeReal has 40M users globally (asia.nikkei.com)
21 days ago Japan

The demand for software engineers in Japan's car industry, facing a shortage of 33,000 software engineers in 2025, intensifies amid the EV and self-driving push (asia.nikkei.com)
28 days ago Japan

China's aggressive expansion into mature chips, expected to account for 28% of the market in 2025, is driving prices down to previously unthinkable levels (asia.nikkei.com)
2025-2-26 China

Tokyo-based Sakana AI details its AI CUDA Engineer, which it says can speed up AI training and inference by 10x to 100x by “breeding” efficient instructions (asia.nikkei.com)
2025-2-20 AI Tokyo

Taiwan's ASE Technology, the world's largest chip packaging and testing firm, opens a new plant in Penang, Malaysia, as part of its biggest overseas expansion (asia.nikkei.com)
2025-2-19 Taiwan Malaysia

Malaysia plans to roll out Google AI tools to 445,000 civil servants to help modernize public services and improve efficiency across government agencies (asia.nikkei.com)
2025-2-13 Google AI Malaysia

TSMC says losses from January's earthquake would be ~$161.5M, dragging its Q1 revenue guidance to $25B to $25.8B, up 35.9% YoY but at the lower end of its range (asia.nikkei.com)
2025-2-10

MediaTek reports sales up 22.4% YoY to ~$16.2B in 2024 and net profit up 38.2% YoY to ~$3.24B, posting its first sales and profit growth in two fiscal years (asia.nikkei.com)
2025-2-8

Sources: TSMC is informing Chinese customers using its 16nm or better tech that it cannot ship orders unless they use a US “white list” chip packaging supplier (asia.nikkei.com)
2025-2-8 China

Chinese chip firms blacklisted by the US are turning to universities, state-backed labs, and “pilot production lines” to keep their development efforts on track (asia.nikkei.com)
2025-2-5 China

Worldpay: cash will make up 14% of transactions in Asia by 2027, down from 49% in 2019, driven by the adoption of QR codes and other smartphone-based payments (asia.nikkei.com)
2025-2-5 Asia

Samsung and LG unveil new OLED tech, including stretchable and transparent screens, to counter Chinese rivals, which held a 33% market share in 2024, per DSCC (asia.nikkei.com)
2025-1-29 China Samsung

Honda plans to dissolve a self-driving vehicle partnership with GM after GM announced plans to exit robotaxi development; Honda had invested $852M in Cruise (asia.nikkei.com)
2024-12-12 Honda Autonomous Car

Sources: Apple has asked Foxconn to produce AI servers in Taiwan using Apple silicon, but Foxconn's capacity is limited by demand for Nvidia's GB200 servers (asia.nikkei.com)
2024-11-6 Taiwan AI Apple Nvidia

Apple reports Q4 revenue down 0.3% YoY to $15.03B in Greater China, up 7.6% YoY to $5.93B in Japan, and up 16.6% YoY to $7.38B in the rest of Asia-Pacific (asia.nikkei.com)
2024-11-1 China Japan Asia Apple 4Q

Sources: TSMC has suspended shipments of 7nm chips to at least two chip developers over suspicions they were trying to circumvent US export controls on Huawei (asia.nikkei.com)
2024-10-29

Huawei launches HarmonyOS 5.0 and says 1B+ devices run on HarmonyOS including smartphones, PCs, and cars, and the OS has 15K+ apps, up 10x from earlier in 2024 (asia.nikkei.com)
2024-10-23

SEMI data: China spent a record $25B on chip tools in H1 2024, more than South Korea, Taiwan, and the US combined, and total spending could hit $50B in 2024 (asia.nikkei.com)
2024-9-4 China Korea Taiwan

Sources: Apple will use OLED displays in all iPhone models sold from next year, switching its lower-priced iPhone SE models to OLED screens from LCDs (asia.nikkei.com)
2024-9-3 iPhone Apple

Apple's Q3 revenue in Greater China was down 6.5% YoY to $14.7B (asia.nikkei.com)
2024-8-2 China Apple

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