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Articles from asia.nikkei.com

Indonesia's enforcement of social media restrictions for under-16s has been patchy, with tech companies ignoring the rules and youth still accessing platforms (asia.nikkei.com)
8 hours ago Indonesia

Indian IT company Persistent Systems offers to acquire its Germany-based peer Nagarro for $1.45B; Indian IT companies are ramping up M&A as AI reshapes growth (asia.nikkei.com)
2 days ago Germany India AI

Sources: Apple has told suppliers to prepare to produce ~10M foldable iPhones in 2026, up from 7M-8M previously, and 80M iPhones in total across new models (asia.nikkei.com)
3 days ago Apple

South Korean government data: the country's exports grew 70.9% YoY in June to $102.25B, an all-time monthly high, anchored by a record $44.82B in chip shipments (asia.nikkei.com)
3 days ago Korea

Japan commits up to $6.16B over five years to Noetra, a consortium led by SoftBank, Honda, NEC, and Sony, to develop a domestic AI foundation model by 2027 (asia.nikkei.com)
3 days ago Japan AI Honda Sony

Sources: Chinese smartphone makers like Xiaomi, Oppo, and Vivo told suppliers they will again cut 2026 shipment targets, with Xiaomi cutting 30% to ~95M units (asia.nikkei.com)
5 days ago China Xiaomi OPPO Vivo

Arm EVP Mohamed Awad says its chip architecture now accounts for 50%+ of the hyperscale cloud computing market, as AI demand transforms the data center industry (asia.nikkei.com)
9 days ago AI

Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon says the company is designing data center chips specifically for Chinese customers that are in compliance with US export controls (asia.nikkei.com)
9 days ago China

Sources: ByteDance shares are trading at a $600B+ valuation in gray markets; an IPO is unlikely and its growth continues to benefit its Chinese and US backers (asia.nikkei.com)
13 days ago China IPO

China adds ten US companies, including MP Materials and Teal Drones, to export controls and bars government purchases from 46 US companies, including Anduril (asia.nikkei.com)
13 days ago China Drone

Japan's top five chip equipment makers posted their first-ever fall in combined China sales, down 10% in the year ended March 31, as China boosts local players (asia.nikkei.com)
13 days ago China Japan

Toto, Japan's largest toilet maker, plans to invest $495M by 2030 to expand its semiconductor materials unit, targeting R&D for next-gen 1nm chip production (asia.nikkei.com)
13 days ago Japan

Sources: Samsung is seeing a rise in advanced chip production requests from BYD, Google, AMD, and others as TSMC's capacity remains constrained by AI demand (asia.nikkei.com)
17 days ago Google Samsung AI AMD

After years of uncertainty, including delayed listings, memory chipmaker Kioxia's shares soared 56x in 18 months, making it Japan's most valuable company (asia.nikkei.com)
20 days ago Japan

Applied Materials opens a $500M chip equipment manufacturing campus in Singapore, making the city-state home to ~50% of its production capacity alongside the US (asia.nikkei.com)
23 days ago Singapore Manufacturing

Kepple: seed-stage startup funding in Japan fell 42% YoY in 2025 to a 10-year low of $124M, as the Tokyo Stock Exchange moves to reduce small listings (asia.nikkei.com)
28 days ago Japan Startup Tokyo

Applied Materials plans to expand its Southeast Asia workforce by 25% in 2026, hiring ~1,000 workers mainly in Singapore, a key chip packaging equipment hub (asia.nikkei.com)
30 days ago Asia Singapore Southeast Asia

Grab says it commits to “Taiwan's data security and public trust”, after reports of Grab's collaborations with China's Huawei and Alibaba sparked concerns (asia.nikkei.com)
2026-6-1 China Taiwan Alibaba

China will implement new online food delivery regulations on June 1, requiring platforms to regularly verify businesses' identities, locations, and licenses (asia.nikkei.com)
2026-5-31 China

MediaTek says it has started to use Intel Foundry's advanced chip packaging in addition to TSMC's, as the mobile chip designer bets on AI demand for growth (asia.nikkei.com)
2026-5-29 Intel Mobile AI

Tencent bets on smaller AI models in the race with Chinese rivals, as EVP Dowson Tong says AI now contributes 20%+ of its revenue and 95%+ of new internal code (asia.nikkei.com)
2026-5-29 China AI Tencent

Surging AI demand has caused shortages and price increases across the entire optical supply chain, from lasers and substrates to optical fibers and connectors (asia.nikkei.com)
2026-5-28 AI

Jensen Huang says Nvidia is spending $100B-$150B annually on its Taiwan supply chain, up from $10B-$15B four years ago, and will boost its Taiwan staff to 4,000 (asia.nikkei.com)
2026-5-27 Taiwan Nvidia

At an IEEE conference, Huawei proposed a new chip scaling law and said it aims to design chips with transistor density equivalent to 1.4nm by 2031 (asia.nikkei.com)
2026-5-25

How the global memory chip crunch, driven by AI demand, is hurting China's car industry, squeezing automakers already hit by a price war and razor-thin margins (asia.nikkei.com)
2026-5-23 China AI

AMD CEO Lisa Su projects the CPU market will grow over 35% annually through 2031, up from 3% to 4% historically, driven by AI inference and agentic AI demand (asia.nikkei.com)
2026-5-22 AI AMD

Vietnam introduces Decree 142 to implement its AI law, requiring companies to classify AI models by risk level, label deepfakes, and disclose chatbot use (asia.nikkei.com)
2026-5-20 AI chatbot Vietnam

SkyeChip becomes the first Malaysian chip design company to IPO on the Bursa Malaysia exchange, surging 300%+; the company was valued at ~$397M at its IPO price (asia.nikkei.com)
2026-5-20 IPO Malaysia

Sources: Intel asks its leading PC partners, including those in the US, China, and Taiwan, to use more 18A CPUs, citing better supply than chips on older nodes (asia.nikkei.com)
2026-5-19 China Taiwan Intel

Chinese chipmaker CXMT reports Q1 revenue up 719% YoY to ~$7.5B, net profit up 1,688% to $3.6B, and says Omdia ranks it No. 4 in DRAM with a 7.67% global share (asia.nikkei.com)
2026-5-18 China

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