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...Guo Fang, 27, faced videos and pictures showing her entering a competitor’s office....
...The US Treasury secretary’s long-standing relationship with former vice-premier Liu He is also seen as an advantage....
...Additional reporting by Qianer Liu in Hong Kong and Leo Lewis in Tokyo...
...Hi everyone this is Cheng Ting-Fang, also known as Annie! When my flight landed in Taipei over the weekend, a wave of relief washed over me....
...The device marks the latest chapter in the company’s comeback in the domestic smartphone market, write Nikkei Asia’s Cheng Ting-Fang and Lauly Li....
...After conducting more than 30 interviews in less than a week, including some with my colleague Cheng Ting-Fang, my voice was so deep I sounded like a less musical Miley Cyrus....
...Austin last year had a bilateral meeting with Wei Fenghe, Li’s predecessor. The Pentagon said it wanted “open lines of communication” with Chinese military leaders but blamed Beijing for the impasse....
...The production value of AI servers already exceeded 50 per cent of the total global server market in 2023, Wei said, adding that the MIC forecast the penetration of AI servers would rise from 12.4 per cent...
...Chairman Mark Liu will retire from the company and exit the board, with TSMC chief executive CC Wei proposed as his replacement, according to the company....
...This is Cheng Ting-Fang, your tech newsletter host for this week. It was a super semiconductor week in Taiwan, the world’s second-largest chip economy by revenue....
...These are just some of the ways China has managed to push ahead with its chip ambitions despite the US clampdown on Huawei and other Chinese tech companies, writes Nikkei Asia’s Cheng Ting-Fang....
...Liu’s view is shared by other suppliers....
...to postpone completion of their $69bn merger, which had been scheduled to close on October 30, write the Financial Times’ Tim Bradshaw, Arash Massoudi and Maxine Kelly in London, Cheng Leng and Qianer Liu...
...Austin met then-defence minister Wei Fenghe in Cambodia two years ago....
...This is Cheng Ting-Fang from Taipei. I was invited to a luncheon hosted by a European trade diplomat visiting Taiwan last week....
...“IDM typically only optimises their technology for their own product, while foundry optimises for their customers,” Liu said....
...This is Cheng Ting-Fang, your host for #techAsia this week....
...Speaking of reporting, I recently went to the Taiwanese chip hub of Hsinchu with my colleague Annie Cheng Ting-Fang to meet with a longtime industry source....
...But CC Wei, TSMC’s chief executive, appears unfazed....
...Additional reporting by Nian Liu in Beijing...
...TSMC Chairman Mark Liu has said Taiwan’s slowness in developing renewable energy is holding the company back from its environmental goals....
...The art market has not been immune, with disappointing auction sales including works consigned by Long Museum founders Liu Yiqian and Wang Wei, though last year’s evening auctions in Hong Kong proved more...
...Liu said the industry-wide push to adopt renewable energy had intensified recently, especially since the Russian invasion of Ukraine....
...The question is whether to fill the supply gaps left by the Micron ban and upset the US, or refrain from doing so and irk China, according to Kim Jaewon, Lauly Li and Cheng Ting-Fang, Nikkei Asia’s tech...
...Dan Hutcheson, vice chair of TechInsights, and Nikkei Asia’s chief tech correspondent Annie Cheng Ting-Fang, to discover the untold stories of the global battle for semiconductor dominance....
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