STARTUP NEWS ASIA

Boosting the signal on Asia's tech news

Asia Tech News, Monthly - August
Asia's Tech Newsletter, Weekly
GITEX Asia tech conference

Taiwan: August 2023

Taiwan’s tech news headlines in August of 2023 captured items and developments including: TSMC’s first European facility, set for Germany; Taiwan’s deepening partnership with Phoenix in the US state of Arizona; Foxconn’s growth in India; a Taiwanese micro fusion reactor energy system; and more.

Also available here:
Global semiconductor news from August 2023 >

You can also get Asia tech daily, and weekly – daily updates go out via social media, and our weekly newsletters go out via Substack and LinkedIn.

Taipei Blockchain Week 2023

Taipei Blockchain Week 2023 – December 11-16

“…telecom operators and network gear providers need to buy up to 6 chips from different suppliers such as Intel, Broadcom, NXP and Marvell… EdgeQ’s approach is to replace all those chips with one ‘system-on-a-chip.'”

Taiwan ‘is best-positioned to create what he calls “red-free” or “China-free” defense supply chains that friendly countries, such as Australia and Japan, could leverage for their own military logistics.’

Now, Lo, who also goes by Max, has fully transitioned the company to making dual-use drones that can also be mounted with guns, drop bombs or surveil enemy sites. Taiwan’s military is partnering with private companies including Geosat to build 3,000 military-use drones by next year.

‘…Flax Typhoon, “a nation-state actor based out of China”, has since mid-2021 mainly “targeted [Taiwan] government agencies and education, critical manufacturing, and [IT] organizations…”‘

US, Taiwan and Semiconductor Supply Chain

The US, Taiwan and Semiconductors – A Crucial Supply Chain Partnership

Semiconductor news, August 2023

“While US rules…slowed down China’s development of advanced chipmaking…they left largely untouched the country’s ability to use techniques older than 14-nm. That has led Chinese firms to construct new plants faster than anywhere else in the world.”

“Baidu, ByteDance, Tencent & Alibaba have made orders worth $1BN to acquire about 100K A800 processors from [NVIDIA] to be delivered this year… further $4BN worth…to be delivered in 2024…”

‘The European Commission will analyse the US ban on new US investment in China in sensitive technologies as the issue is also important to [EU] economic security…’

“The EU and Member States also have a common interest in preventing that our companies’ capital, expertise and knowledge fuel technological advances that enhance military and intelligence capabilities of actors who may use them to undermine international peace and security,” the spokesperson said.

Indo-Pacific Tech News

Indo-Pacific Tech News, September 2023 edition

ASIA TECH DAILY

All-day tech news updates from across South & Southeast Asia and the broad Indo-Pacific region:

Unfortunately, our mobile app updates are currently offline, ‘thanks’ to the ongoing devolution of what was Twitter (now X); we pulled our content feed directly from Twitter to the app, but tech changes at X have closed this down for the time being.

Asia tech weekly

Startup News Asia’s weekly newsletters go out via Substack and LinkedIn, giving you a single snapshot of the past week’s tech news headlines from across Asia and the Indo-Pacific.

Critical tech quarterly, Q2 2024

© 2024 STARTUP NEWS ASIA by Wade K Wright / Asia's tech news weekly

Theme by Anders Norén