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CHIPMAKERS

The Nvidia logo and a Neura humanoid robot at the Hannover Messe 2026 trade fair in Hannover, Germany, on April 20. Nvidia’s grip on the AI processor market is seen as increasingly under threat from other chipmakers as well as its biggest customers.
BUSINESS
May 6, 2026
Nvidia is facing more competition and it’s spooking investors
Nvidia’s grip on the AI processor market is seen as increasingly under threat from other chipmakers as well as its biggest customers.
People walk past a large electronic screen showing the Samsung logo at a train station in Seoul on April 30.
BUSINESS / Tech
May 6, 2026
Samsung hits $1 trillion valuation, joining TSMC in elite club
Booming demand for chips used in artificial intelligence saw the world’s largest memory maker’s stock more than quadruple over the past year.
The Nvidia logo and a Neura humanoid robot at the Dassault Systems SE booth at the Hannover Messe 2026 trade fair in Hannover, Germany, on April 20
BUSINESS
May 3, 2026
Nvidia’s push into physical AI sparks rally in Asian partners
Nvidia-induced demand is shaping stock performance across Asia’s technology supply chain.
Applied Materials, which has significant business supplying China, is among those believed to ​have received a letter from the U.S. Department of Commerce.
BUSINESS / Tech
Apr 29, 2026
U.S. orders chip equipment companies to halt some shipments to China’s Hua Hong
The move is the latest U.S. action to slow China’s development of advanced chips, two people familiar with the matter said.
Chen Li-ming, a former Tokyo Electron employee, arrives at the Intellectual Property and Commercial Court for a verdict in a trade secrets case involving Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. and Tokyo Electron’s Taiwan unit, in New Taipei City, Taiwan, on Monday.
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 27, 2026
Former Tokyo Electron staff gets decade in jail for TSMC breach
Taiwan’s Intellectual Property and Commercial Court also handed out jail sentences on four others and fined Tokyo Electron’s local unit.
A stock ticker displays market information inside the Indonesia Stock Exchange in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Jan. 20. Indonesia, along with India and the Philippines, has seen strained trade balances and tumbling stocks as a result of higher oil prices.
BUSINESS / Tech
Apr 27, 2026
AI boom drowns out war fears to fuel Asia’s great market divide
Investors are punishing economies exposed to higher energy costs while looking past near-term risks to gain exposure to industries seen as critical to future growth.
A container ship is seen at the port in Lianyungang, in China's eastern Jiangsu province on Thursday.
BUSINESS / Markets
Apr 27, 2026
Under cover of trade truce with Trump, China expands economic pressure toolkit
Beijing is punishing those who shift supply chains from China, tightening rare ​earth licensing, banning foreign AI and cybersecurity tech and weighing curbs on its solar gear.
Denso’s signboard outside its office in Tokyo
BUSINESS
Apr 26, 2026
Denso mulls withdrawing acquisition offer for chipmaker Rohm
Denso, part of the Toyota Motor group, is finding it difficult to gain support from Rohm for the acquisition offer, sources said.
Denso’s office in Tokyo in March
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 25, 2026
Denso to withdraw proposal to take over Rohm, report says
Denso was unable to get Rohm’s support for the acquisition, the Nikkei daily reported.
Members of the Samsung Electronics labor union hold signs reading "Change it to be transparent!" as they stage a mass rally demanding the removal of a cap on performance bonuses, outside the company's foundry and semiconductor factory in Pyeongtaek on Thursday.
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 23, 2026
Samsung workers protest over huge pay gap with SK Hynix amid AI chip boom
Protesters, which union organizers put at 40,000, plan to strike for 18 days from May 21 if their demands are not met.
An interactive display at the iRootech Technology Co. offices in Guangzhou, China, on April 15. There is growing appetite in the U.S. Congress for restricting the flow of AI technology to China.
BUSINESS / Tech
Apr 23, 2026
AI export control measures aimed at China gain steam in U.S. House
The U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee is seeking to close what lawmakers see as loopholes allowing China to access powerful U.S. technology including Nvidia chips.
GSMA Director General Vivek Badrinath speaks during a keynote session at the 2025 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, on March 3. Badrinath says a memory chip shortage resulting from chipmakers prioritizing the artificial intelligence sector is hindering efforts to bring more people online worldwide.
BUSINESS / Tech
Apr 15, 2026
AI-driven chip shortage slowing efforts to get world online: GSMA
Chipmakers are producing fewer less-flashy chips that are used in everyday consumer electronics as they prioritize the lucrative artificial intelligence industry.
Visitors look at a display of semiconductor devices at the SuperSiC booth during SEMICON China, a trade fair for semiconductor technology, in Shanghai on March 25.
BUSINESS
Apr 14, 2026
China’s export engine stutters as Iran war chills global demand
The effects of the conflict in the Middle East have exposed the risks in Beijing’s strategy of leaning on manufacturing to sustain growth.
Industry minister Ryosei Akazawa speaks during the opening of a Rapidus chip analysis factory in Chitose, Hokkaido, on Saturday.
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 11, 2026
Japan bets ¥632 billion to propel startup Rapidus into global AI chip race
The move ramps up financial support for a signature project widely regarded as a long shot.
Rohm, Toshiba and Mitsubishi Electric launched discussions on integrating their power chip operations after auto parts supplier Denso offered to acquire Rohm.
BUSINESS
Apr 6, 2026
Japan’s power chip sector undergoing realignment
Rohm, Toshiba and Mitsubishi Electric launched discussions on integrating their power chip operations after auto parts supplier Denso offered to acquire Rohm.
The Ajinomoto headquarters building in Tokyo. Activist fund Palliser Capital has built a stake in Ajinomoto and is urging the firm to raise prices for its chip-insulation products.
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 2, 2026
Activist fund Palliser presses Ajinomoto to raise prices for chip material
The U.K.-based fund is calling for a more than 30% increase in prices for Ajinomoto Build-Up Film, used to package high-performance semiconductors.
Toshiba plans to start negotiations with Mitsubishi Electric and chipmaker Rohm to merge their power semiconductor businesses, as international competition over the sector heats up.
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 28, 2026
Japan firms weigh merging power chip businesses
Toshiba said it will start negotiations with Mitsubishi Electric and chipmaker Rohm to merge their power semiconductor businesses.
SMIC, China's largest chipmaker, has been heavily sanctioned by the U.S. government over alleged ties to the Chinese ‌military.
BUSINESS / Tech
Mar 27, 2026
China’s top chipmaker has supplied chipmaking tech to Iran military, U.S. officials say
The officials said SMIC, which had been heavily sanctioned by the U.S. government over alleged ties to the Chinese ‌military, began sending ‌the tools to Iran roughly a year ago.
Jensen Huang, chief executive officer of Nvidia, speaks during a keynote address at the Nvidia GTC conference in San Jose, California, on Monday.
BUSINESS / Tech
Mar 17, 2026
Nvidia expects to make $1 trillion from AI chips through 2027
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced plans to push deeper into central processing units — Intel’s home turf.
Denso headquarters in Kariya, Aichi Prefecture.
BUSINESS
Mar 7, 2026
Rohm shares soar most since 2000 on Denso acquisition bid
Rohm shares surged 18%, the most in 26 years, after the Japanese chip parts maker said it had received an acquisition proposal from Denso.
Japan triples departure tax in push to combat overtourism
Tourists in Yanaka Ginza, Tokyo, on Wednesday. Japan tripled its International Tourist Tax (departure tax) to ¥3,000 from ¥1,000 on Wednesday for all travelers leaving Japan, regardless of nationality.
More facilities in Japan placing sanitary bins in men’s restrooms
A sanitary bin with an awareness sticker placed in a men's restroom in the Nagasaki Municipal Government building
Inside Japan’s rigid adoption system, a British family finds a way
James Benstead, his wife, Jesse, and their three children. Their adopted son is in the rear stroller.
Life inside Japan’s largest prison for women
Western-style rooms spanning the size of four tatami mats with hardwood floors, a toilet and soft mattresses on bed frames are designated for foreign nationals and those with health conditions at Tochigi Prison.
‘My dream is broken’: Japan visa rules push out foreign residents
A man orders from a kebab shop in the Okubo district in Tokyo.
Japan’s fertility system offers few safe paths for same-sex couples
A Tokyo Pride parade participant holds a sign that says "we want to be a married couple, not a couple."
Life inside Japan’s largest prison for women
Western-style rooms spanning the size of four tatami mats with hardwood floors, a toilet and soft mattresses on bed frames are designated for foreign nationals and those with health conditions at Tochigi Prison.
Inside Japan’s rigid adoption system, a British family finds a way
James Benstead, his wife, Jesse, and their three children. Their adopted son is in the rear stroller.
A French ship with close ties to Japan combines arts and sciences on the high seas
Romain Troublé, the executive director of Tara Ocean Foundation, speaks to visitors aboard the Tara during a rare port call in Tokyo in April.
In Kyushu’s far south, Senti.U sparks a culinary destination
Chef Yasuhiko Uchida was born in Saga Prefecture but has made his home in Kanoya, Kagoshima Prefecture, since 2012.

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