Amazon’s cloud unit raced to get the latest version of its artificial intelligence chip to market, renewing efforts to sell hardware capable of rivaling products from Nvidia and Google. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/12/03/tech/amazon-ai-chip-nvidia-google/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #amazon #semiconductors #chipmakers #ai #tech

Micron Technology will spend ¥1.5 trillion ($9.6 billion) to build a plant in western Japan to make memory chips for artificial intelligence applications, Nikkei newspaper reported. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/11/29/companies/micron-investment-semiconductors/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #micron #chipmakers #investments #tech

Intel has denied allegations by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. that one of its executives who formerly worked at the Taiwanese chipmaker had leaked trade secrets. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/11/27/tech/intel-executive-tsmc-leak/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #tsmc #intel #semiconductors #chipmakers

Growing unease over frothy artificial intelligence valuations is weighing on shares of SoftBank Group, which traders increasingly view as a proxy for privately held OpenAI. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/11/26/companies/softbank-shares-slide/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #softbank #stocks #ai #chipmakers #investments

Rapidus plans to start building a second factory to produce cutting-edge semiconductors in a race with industry leader Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., local media in Japan has reported. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/11/26/companies/rapidus-second-plant/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #rapidus #chipmakers #hokkaido #manufacturing

Nexperia’s plant in China’s industrial south has become a global choke point for automotive chips, upending a sector that swore it wouldn’t be caught again by supply-chain disruptions. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/11/24/tech/nexperia-chip-auto-supply-chains/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #tech #semiconductors #chipmakers #ai #china #us #netherlands #nexperia

Japanese and South Korean tech stocks plummeted on Friday, with tech investor SoftBank plunging more than 10% as fears over an AI bubble weighed on the market. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/11/21/markets/tech-stocks-ai-fear/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #markets #ai #southkorea #tech #softbank #us #nvidia #openai #chipmakers

U.S. President Donald Trump's administration is considering greenlighting sales of Nvidia's H200 artificial intelligence chips to China, people familiar with the matter said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/11/22/tech/us-nvidia-h200-chips-china/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #nvidia #chipmakers #us #china

Japan should leverage its alliance with the U.S. to counter China’s threats rather than seeking quick compromises alone that will lead to long-term losses, an outspoken Japanese lawmaker says. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/21/japan/politics/japan-counter-china-us-help/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #politics #us #china #heiseki #nipponishinnokai #taiwa #sanaetakaichi #chipmakers #rareearths

Japanese and South Korean tech stocks plummeted on Friday, with tech investor SoftBank plunging more than 10% as fears over an AI bubble weighed on the market. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/11/21/markets/tech-stocks-ai-fear/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #markets #ai #southkorea #tech #softbank #us #nvidia #openai #chipmakers

The Netherlands has suspended its powers over chipmaker Nexperia, handing back control to its Chinese owner and defusing a standoff with Beijing that had begun to hamper automotive production around the world. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/11/20/tech/netherlands-nexperia-chinese-owner/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #nexperia #chipmakers #china #netherlands

Nvidia delivered a surprisingly strong revenue forecast and pushed back on the idea that the artificial intelligence industry is in a bubble, easing concerns that had spread across the tech sector. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/11/20/tech/nvidia-forecast-ai-bubble/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #nvidia #semiconductors #chipmakers #ai #tech

The U.S. is planning to greenlight the first sales of advanced artificial intelligence chips to Saudi Arabian artificial intelligence firm Humain. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/11/19/tech/us-chips-saudi-ai-humain/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #semiconductors #ai #chipmakers #saudiarabia #us #donaldtrump #trade #tech

Taiwan will tighten its export controls for potential dual-use civilian-military technology to include quantum computers and advanced semiconductor equipment to fulfill its obligations to stop weapons proliferation https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/11/18/taiwan-export-dual-use-technology/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #taiwan #tech #semiconductors #chipmakers #ai #china #huawei #tsmc

Artificial intelligence has fueled a stronger-than-expected earnings season for Japan’s tech sector, with surging data-center demand prompting chipmakers and equipment suppliers to raise forecasts. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/11/14/companies/japan-chip-sector-earnings/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #chipmakers #advantest #tokyoelectron #ai

Japan’s largest tech fund says AI stocks are not in a bubble and have room to rise further. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/11/07/companies/ai-bubble-stage-tech-fund/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #ai #nomura #chipmakers #softbank

SoftBank explored a potential takeover of U.S. chipmaker Marvell Technology earlier this year, in what would have been the semiconductor industry’s largest-ever deal. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/11/06/companies/softbank-marvell-takeover/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #softbank #marvelltechnology #us #ai #chipmakers #acquisitions

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has warned that China will beat the United States in the artificial intelligence race, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/11/06/tech/nvidia-jensen-huang-china-ai/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #nvidia #jensenhuang #china #ai #tech #semiconductors #chipmakers

Nvidia making history last week by becoming the first company ever to have a market value of $5 trillion is just one way it’s casting a shadow over the global economy. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/11/03/tech/nvidia-5-trillion-market/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #nvidia #jensenhuang #semiconductors #ai #chipmakers #tech #markets

The U.S. plans to announce that Dutch chipmaker Nexperia's China facilities will resume shipments, in what would be a relief for auto manufacturers worldwide who faced the imminent prospect of curbing production. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/11/01/tech/us-nexperia-china-shipments-resume/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #carmakers #chipmakers #us #donaldtrump #china #netherlands