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Tuesday 8 September 2026

US chip investment push puts ownership at center of Korea's $200 billion deal

A US push for additional Korean semiconductor manufacturing investment has entered bilateral negotiations just as the first project under...

Tuesday 8 September 2026

Malaysia weighs Huawei Ascend 910C for MYR2 billion sovereign AI cloud

Malaysia is evaluating Huawei Technologies' Ascend 910C accelerators as the compute backbone of its MYR2 billion (US$494 million) sovereign AI initiative, which is designed to keep...

Tuesday 8 September 2026

US-China space race expands from Moon landings to LEO satellite constellations and orbital computing

The US-China space race is broadening beyond rocket launches and crewed lunar missions into a growing array of strategic arenas, including lunar resources, low-Earth-orbit (LEO) satellite...

Monday 7 September 2026

Analysis: Under tariff threats, Taiwan chipmakers hedge beyond US

Taiwanese companies are only at the start of a broader overseas investment cycle, as Washington signals possible new semiconductor tariffs and Taipei moves to deepen industrial links...

Monday 7 September 2026

India says it cannot build electronics without China and has started easing the rules to prove it

India is selling its semiconductor build-out abroad as a hedge against an over-concentrated supply chain. The officials running it are unusually candid that the hedge cannot be built...

Sunday 6 September 2026

Middle East tensions, Panama Canal limits can further tighten global shipping

Rising Middle East tensions, marked by the largest US-Iran military exchange since July, have once again cast a shadow of geopolitical escalation over the region. Meanwhile, recent...

Sunday 6 September 2026

G20 AI agenda: US champions light-touch regulation while data center backlash, China rivalry intensify

The G20 Innovation Ministerial was held in North Carolina, US, from September 1 to 2, with artificial intelligence (AI) taking center stage. The US urged governments to pursue a light-touch...

Friday 4 September 2026

G20 approves guidelines calling for more business-friendly AI regulation

Delegates to the G20 summit have agreed to support proposed guidelines for a light touch on AI regulation. The framework, proposed by the US, appeared to show a rare moment of consensus...

Wednesday 2 September 2026

Manus resumes independent operations after Meta deal collapses

Manus has resumed independent operations under its founding team, closing a turbulent chapter that began with Meta Platforms' multibillion-dollar acquisition of the AI agent startup...

Wednesday 2 September 2026

Deep Dive: CXMT challenges Pentagon as Trump-Xi meeting nears

ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) has escalated its defense against the US government, shifting from supply-chain and technological competition into a full-scale courtroom battle...

Tuesday 1 September 2026

Chinese court freezes US$318M in Nexperia assets, further escalating corp rift

A Chinese court has ordered the freezing of more than CNY2.14 billion (approx. US$318 million) in domestic assets belonging to Dutch semiconductor manufacturer Nexperia and its equipment...

Monday 31 August 2026

Unimicron search puts spotlight on cross-border manufacturing for Taiwan's electronics sector

Unimicron, a major Taiwanese IC substrate maker, came under intense supply chain scrutiny last week after reports that prosecutors and investigators searched the company over a suspected...

Monday 31 August 2026

US weighs limits on China's access to chips in overseas data centers

US restrictions on China's access to advanced computing could expand beyond physical chip shipments to the remote use of computing resources, potentially increasing compliance requirements...

Monday 31 August 2026

CXMT's global DRAM push runs into US curbs

ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) is suing the Pentagon to overturn its designation as a Chinese military company as the Chinese DRAM...

Friday 28 August 2026

US targets Singapore's Apex Logistics in widening probe into illicit Nvidia chip smuggling to China

Efforts to curb the illicit trade of advanced AI hardware to China have intensified following a series of indictments and probes targeting the supply chain.

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