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...Silicon photonics is a technology that integrates optical components, such as lasers with silicon-based integrated circuits to enable high-speed data transmission, longer transmission distance and low power...
...“Methane emissions are a huge threat to climate change and methane is a lot more powerful than CO₂,” said Elena Belletti, co-author of the Wood Mackenzie report, which warns regulation is getting serious...
...Fujian-based CATL, formally Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Ltd, is the world’s largest maker of midsize and large batteries for electrified vehicles....
...CVC has told Toshiba that it plans to form a consortium, but it has not made clear who its co-investors will be....
...The significant rise in the share prices of chipmakers Nvidia of the US and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co suggested that a metaverse-driven bet on demand for raw computing power and cloud storage...
...A co-investor in another Greybull deal said: “They don’t have financial power when they’re proved wrong. Circumstances change. That’s why you get into big trouble.”...
...Waymo co-founder jailed for trade secrets theftAnthony Levandowski, co-founder of Google’s self-driving car project, has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for stealing trade secrets and allegedly using...
...That in turn triggered a rare takeover battle as optical glass specialist Hoya last week made a surprise $1.4bn unsolicited bid for microchip equipment maker NuFlare — a listed Toshiba subsidiary for which...
...Last Thursday, Toshiba Machine said it would sell its stake in NuFlare to Toshiba, despite the fact that optical products maker Hoya in December made an offer considerably higher than Toshiba’s....
...But Howard Stringer’s record at Sony was mixed and Olympus’s appointment of Michael Woodford as chief executive in 2011 led to a fierce clash after he disclosed an accounting fraud....
...There have also been several high-profile scandals involving Japanese businesses, including at Toshiba, the technology conglomerate, Olympus, the optical equipment maker, and Takata, the car-component manufacturer...
...AAC Technologies fell 2 per cent and Sunny Optical was down 1.5 per cent, putting the Hong Kong-listed Apple suppliers among the Hang Seng’s worst performers for the day....
...Even the Olympus chairman who received a jail sentence for accounting fraud was treated more leniently and his sentence was suspended....
...Core processor chip supplier Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co gained 0.8 per cent while major assembler Hon Hai Precision Industry (also known as Foxconn) added 0.4 per cent....
...The same approach was taken to arrest executives when accounting scandals broke at Livedoor and Olympus, while prosecutors did not pursue criminal charges against former executives of Toshiba over a $1.3bn...
...The renewed scrutiny on Nissan’s external auditor, Ernst & Young ShinNihon, also comes in the wake of massive financial scandals at Olympus and Toshiba — both cases where EY was responsible for auditing...
...“Today the equity market is pretty nutty and the leveraged finance market is not that bad,” says Michael Carr, co-head of M&A at Goldman Sachs....
...Sunny Optical fell 5.7 per cent while Apple supplier AAC Technologies dropped 4.5 per cent and Lenovo shed 2.2 per cent. The CSI 300 comprised of Shanghai and Shenzhen companies was off 0.7 per cent....
...Between 2012 and 2015, the optical products maker Olympus, the airbag maker Takata and then the conglomerate Toshiba suffered scandals ranging from company-wide accounting fraud to a massive safety cover-up...
...Chinese messaging and gaming group Tencent fell 1.2 per cent and Sunny Optical Technology dropped 3.4 per cent, putting the companies among the worst performers on the index for Tuesday....
...Corporate earnings reports out today include Nissan Motor, Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing, CapitaLand, Square Enix, Link REIT, Inpex and Olympus....
...This view has hit the share prices of Taiwanese companies that supply the components used for the technology, including wafer-level packaging supplier Xintec and lens makers Genius Electronic Optical and...
...Corporate earnings reports out today include Yingde Gases, Olympus, Transurban Group, Secom and Nippon Paint....
...But while analysts expect the deal to go through, the new entity faces a formidable challenge, said Jayanth Kolla, co-founder of the consultancy Convergence Catalyst....
...Ms Ma points to Sunny Optical, which is ramping up quantity and quality of its camera modules; while the desire for better sound plays to AAC Technologies, the Hong Kong-listed Apple supplier that is beefing...
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