Taiwan

U.S. President Joe Biden delivered a prime-time address to the nation calling for support for Israel, as well as for Ukraine.
Middle East crisis

Biden invokes FDR's 'arsenal of democracy' to boost arms making

Budget request includes additional funding for submarines to Australia under AUKUS

22 October 2023
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Taiwan's chip oracle and Japan's new 'wood'

The inside story on the Asia tech trends that matter, from Nikkei Asia and the Financial Times

19 October 2023
Analysts expect the downturn in the chip industry will soon run its course, but TSMC founder Morris Chang says competition will only grow.
Semiconductors

TSMC says PC and smartphone markets starting to bottom out

Chipmakers logs quarterly profit drop but says 2024 could be 'healthy'

19 October 2023
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, left, and Foxconn Chairman and CEO Young Liu at Foxconn's annual technology day event in Taipei on Oct. 18.
Technology

Foxconn and Nvidia CEOs say they will step up AI collaboration

Taiwanese iPhone assembler has a long relationship with U.S. chip company

18 October 2023
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. had planned to build a factory in Taoyuan city that would produce 2-nanometer chips. (Photo by Hideaki Ryugen)
Semiconductors

TSMC scraps plans for Taiwan advanced chip plant site after protests

World's largest contract chipmaker to evaluate other locations on island

18 October 2023
Want Want opened a pineapple cake pop-up stall in Tokyo's Yurakucho subway station. (Photo by Miho Saito)
Food & Beverage

Taiwanese snack maker Want Want offers authentic tastes in Japan

Company sees demand for sweet flavors from Taiwan, China as largely untapped

16 October 2023
TSMC founder Morris Chang attends a sports day event in Hsinchu, Taiwan, on Oct. 14. (Photo by Ken Kobayashi)
Semiconductors

TSMC's Morris Chang says tougher competition in store for chipmaker

Founder adds Japan and Singapore are well-positioned to win as industry evolves

14 October 2023
TSMC's wafer fabrication plant in Nanjing, in east China's Jiangsu province: The company is applying for permanent approval to ship U.S. chip equipment to Nanjing.
Semiconductors

TSMC seeks permanent U.S. approval to supply China chip plant

Move to ensure access to tools comes as Washington prepares for tighter controls

13 October 2023
From left to right, Taiwanese presidential candidates Lai Ching-te, Hou Yu-ih, Ko Wen-je and Terry Gou. (NIKKEI montage/Source photos by Hideaki Ryugen)
Taiwan elections

Taiwan's presidential front-runner faces potential coalition

Lai Ching-te also must watch Foxconn founder Terry Gou's wild-card candidacy

13 October 2023
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. started building the first chip plant in Japan's Kumamoto prefecture last year. (Photo by Toshiki Sasazu)
Semiconductors

TSMC plans to produce 6-nm chips in 2nd Japan plant

Japanese government considering subsidies of up to $6bn

12 October 2023
Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen speaks at National Day celebrations in Taipei on Oct. 10. 
Taiwan tensions

Tsai stresses Taiwan's resolve as China steps up pressure

President calls for 'peaceful coexistence' in speech ahead of January elections

10 October 2023
Taiwanese warships anchor at a harbor just north of Taipei in August 2022, days after then-U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited the island.
Taiwan tensions

Taiwan blockade's cost would be felt wider than COVID: U.S. official

Chinese action would deliver $2.7tn hit to global economy in 1st year, think tank says

7 October 2023
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TSMC in Japan and India's IPO hopes

The inside story on the Asia tech trends that matter, from Nikkei Asia and the Financial Times

5 October 2023
Wellington Koo, secretary-general of Taiwan's National Security Council, told Nikkei Asia that Taiwan will announce this year what are considered core technologies that need to be protected. (Nikkei montage/Source photos by TSMC/AFP/Jiji and Cheng Ting-fang)
Taiwan tensions

Taiwan to tighten tech safeguards against China this year

To list 'core technologies' in industries such as semiconductors, says official

5 October 2023
Huawei Technologies is expanding its chip supply chain in China in response to U.S. trade sanctions.
Huawei crackdown

Taiwan to probe 4 firms accused of helping Huawei build chip plants

Taipei says no violation of U.S. trade sanctions has been confirmed

5 October 2023
TSMC's $8 billion plant in southwestern Japan is set to start production by the end of 2024. (Photo by Toshiki Sasazu) 
Semiconductors

TSMC's $8bn Japan chip project steams ahead as U.S. site hits snags

Tool installation at Kumamoto plant to start in October, production to begin in 2024

3 October 2023
Taiwan's GEOSAT Aerospace & Technology is teaming up with European partners on drone development and production. (Photo by Hideaki Ryugen)
Defense

Taiwan cultivates homegrown drone industry with eye on China

Island boosts defense supply chains while fostering new growth driver

3 October 2023
Taiwan's domestically made submarine, Narwhal, is unveiled at a shipyard in Kaohsiung, Taiwan on Sept. 28.
Taiwan tensions

Taiwan unveils 'Narwhal,' its first home-built submarine

President Tsai says democratic island has achieved 'mission impossible'

28 September 2023
In this photo provided by the U.S. Navy, the USS Chung-Hoon observes a Chinese navy ship conduct what it called an "unsafe” Chinese maneuver in the Taiwan Strait on June 3.
Taiwan tensions

Taiwan security chief says AUKUS, NATO must counter China threat

Beijing's expansionist drive is sowing alarm across Asia: Wellington Koo

27 September 2023
U.S. Army soldiers and Japan Ground Self-Defense Force members conduct anti-tank training during Orient Shield joint exercises. (Photo from U.S. Army's X feed)
Defense

U.S. Army bolsters ties with Japan as focus shifts to China

Allies advance intel sharing ahead of Tokyo's acquisition of long-range missiles

26 September 2023
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman noted that "people in our industry bash regulation a lot."
Technology

OpenAI CEO Altman says tech is 'equalizing' but needs regulation

ChatGPT maker's chief predicts artificial intelligence will be 'super strong force'

25 September 2023
Once completed, the wind farm is expected to provide enough power for 1 million Taiwanese homes (photograph shows a Danish offshore wind farm).
Energy

Mitsui to join Taiwan offshore wind project with Canadian utility

Japan trading house to provide $1.1bn for 1-GW power farm plan

23 September 2023
U.S. chipmaker Qualcomm is eliminating hundreds of jobs in China and Taiwan in the face of a downturn in the smartphone market and China supplying more of its own chips.
Technology

Qualcomm slashes jobs in China and Taiwan amid smartphone slump

Move follows client Huawei's release of phones powered with own chips

22 September 2023
The Taipei government has kept all specifications and images of its homemade submarine, represented here by an artist's impression, under strict lock and key. That changes at the end of this month.
Asia Insight

Taiwan submarine dream surfaces as China tensions rise

Taipei to unveil island-made sub despite years of Beijing pressure on suppliers

19 September 2023
A Chinese warship takes part in a military drill off the Chinese coast near Fuzhou, Fujian province, across from the Taiwan-controlled Matsu Islands on April 11. 
Taiwan tensions

China sends fighter jets in show of force off Taiwan

Aircraft and warships near the island could be connected to turmoil in China

18 September 2023