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Articles from asia.nikkei.com

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)
14 hours 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)
4 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)
7 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)
7 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)
10 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)
12 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)
17 days ago

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)
20 days ago 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)
25 days ago 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)
27 days ago 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)
29 days ago 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

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

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