21 stories tagged with #nikkei-asia, in publish-time order across the WeSearch catalog. Tag pages update as new stories ingest.
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The global AI boom has thrust CPUs back into the spotlight as Nvidia, Qualcomm, MediaTek, and others challenge Intel and AMD in the AI data center CPU market (Nikkei Asia)
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 (Sayan Chakraborty/Nikkei Asia)
Sayan Chakraborty / Nikkei Asia : 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 res…
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 (Nikkei Asia)
Nikkei Asia : 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 — TAIPE…
China adds ten US companies, including MP Materials and Teal Drones, to export controls and bars government purchases from 46 US companies, including Anduril (Wataru Suzuki/Nikkei Asia)
Wataru Suzuki / Nikkei Asia : China adds ten US companies, including MP Materials and Teal Drones, to export controls and bars government purchases from 46 US companies, including …
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 (Henny Sender/Nikkei Asia)
Henny Sender / Nikkei Asia : 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 …
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 (Nikkei Asia)
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 (Ami Yamada/Nikkei Asia)
Ami Yamada / Nikkei Asia : 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 — …
China will implement new online food delivery regulations on June 1, requiring platforms to regularly verify businesses' identities, locations, and licenses (Nikkei Asia)
Nikkei Asia : China will implement new online food delivery regulations on June 1, requiring platforms to regularly verify businesses' identities, locations, and licenses — BEIJING…
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 (Cheng Ting-Fang/Nikkei Asia)
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 (Cissy Zhou/Nikkei Asia)
Cissy Zhou / Nikkei Asia : 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 interna…
Surging AI demand has caused shortages and price increases across the entire optical supply chain, from lasers and substrates to optical fibers and connectors (Nikkei Asia)
Nikkei Asia : Surging AI demand has caused shortages and price increases across the entire optical supply chain, from lasers and substrates to optical fibers and connectors — TAIPE…
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 (Nikkei Asia)
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 (Nikkei Asia)
Nikkei Asia : 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 — TAIPEI — Huawei T…
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 (Nikkei Asia)
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 (Cheng Ting-Fang/Nikkei Asia)
Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia : 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 …
Vietnam introduces Decree 142 to implement its AI law, requiring companies to classify AI models by risk level, label deepfakes, and disclose chatbot use (Lien Hoang/Nikkei Asia)
Lien Hoang / Nikkei Asia : Vietnam introduces Decree 142 to implement its AI law, requiring companies to classify AI models by risk level, label deepfakes, and disclose chatbot use…
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 (Nikkei Asia)
Nikkei Asia : 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 — KUA…
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 (Nikkei Asia)
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 (Cheng Ting-Fang/Nikkei Asia)
Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia : 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% g…
Japan's SBI Securities, Rakuten Securities plan to offer crypto investment trusts
Another 11 companies responded to a survey saying they would consider offering crypto funds once the regulatory environment becomes clear.…