How GlobalFoundries aims to remain world’s third-biggest semiconductor foundry

cnbc.com In its short 14-year history, GlobalFoundries has risen to become the world's third-largest chip foundry. Based in upstate New York, GlobalFoundries isn't a household name…

Calls on Apple - they're deliberately making their product cooler. Pun intended

theguardian.com Apple has identified the causes of an overheating problem with its latest iPhone series, including a software bug and using certain apps. The tech company said it would…

Ukrainians fear new Chinese rules restricting the export of cheap consumer drone components could worsen Ukraine's supply chain woes in their “war of drones”

nytimes.com Ukrainian soldiers practiced using racing drones as combat weapons at a training site in Ukraine.Credit...Videos by Paul Mozur and Volodymyr Ivanov As the war with Russia…

Transplant Factories, Joint Ventures Will Blunt China’s Electric Car Impact

forbes.com Europe's manufacturers are braced for a Chinese electric car sales onslaught but the impact will be mitigated by their establishment of European factories and willingness to…

Electric two-wheelers are creating a buzz in Asia

economist.com T of small-vehicle engines and horns is one of the most recognisable noises in traffic-choked cities across Asia. Soon that trademark roar may be a thing of the past, even…

How real is America’s chipmaking renaissance?

economist.com A account for a third of global semiconductor sales. They design the world’s most sophisticated microprocessors, which power smartphones, data centres and, increasingly,…

America is building chip factories. Now to find the workers

economist.com J measure, America’s new industrial policy is off to a roaring start. Enticed by subsidies, companies are pouring money into semiconductor plants and electric-vehicle…

How America is failing to break up with China

economist.com W to tracing the geography of global supply chains, few companies provide a better map than Foxconn, the world’s largest contract manufacturer. This year the Taiwanese giant…

The world is in the grip of a manufacturing delusion

economist.com I an allure all of its own. “From manufacturing you may expect the two greatest ills of humanity, superstition and slavery, to be healed,” wrote Ferdinando Galiani, an…

Financial sanctions may not deter China from invading Taiwan

economist.com A ago the China Select Committee in America’s House of Representatives took part in a war game, complete with tabletop maps and blue and red counters. It simulated a Chinese…

Hong Kong sustainable battery start-up GRST seeks funding for joint ventures after making finals of Prince William’s Earthshot Prize

scmp.com Britain’s Prince William launched the Earthshot Prize in 2020 to search for and scale up the most innovative solutions to the world’s greatest environmental challenges by…

The Declining Population Crisis in East Asian Countries

medium.datadriveninvestor.com Credits: unsplash East Asian countries, including Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan, are facing a demographic challenge of unprecedented proportions—declining populations. This…

San Sebastian Film Festival 2023 Complete Winners List: Jaione Camborda’s ‘The Rye Horn’ Takes Golden Shell For Best Film

deadline.com Jaione Camborda wins the Golden Shell for 'O Corno' ('The Rye Horn') The San Sebastian Film Festival awarded O Corno (The Rye Horn) with the Golden Shell for Best Film. San…

Jimmy Lai: Hong Kong mogul, activist ... and now a prisoner for 1,000 days

theguardian.com It was not the first time in his long and eventful career that media mogul Jimmy Lai became the story, and it wouldn’t be the last. But it was certainly the most dramatic.…

Countries Most Worried About World War III

247wallst.com With the ongoing war in Ukraine and continuing tensions between China, Taiwan and the United States, global tensions may be at their highest point in several decades.…

Harvard's cybersecurity guru warns that AI is 'uniquely suited to internet-era propaganda' as elections face Russian, Chinese, Iranian disinformation campaigns

fortune.com Elections around the world are facing an evolving threat from foreign actors, one that involves artificial intelligence. Countries trying to influence each other’s elections…

What 'Everyone Now Knows' About Immigration Is Wrong

aier.org Everyone knows that, because for most of her history, America had almost no restrictions on immigration, America is overwhelmingly a nation of descendants of immigrants. In…

TSMC Revenue Can Hit $100 Billion by 2025 After Rebound, Says Analyst

barrons.com New Street Research analyst Pierre Ferragu reiterated a Buy rating on TSMC’s Taiwan-traded shares. He sees about 34% upside for TSMC’s U.S.-listed American depositary…

Ordinals Community Grapples With Numbering Controversy

thedefiant.io Bitcoin Ordinals Creator Casey Rodarmor Has Proposed To Make Ordinal Numbers ‘Unstable’ and Renumber All Existing Inscriptions The Ordinals protocol took the Bitcoin network…

Dwight Howard Is Somehow Still Going Begging For An NBA Job

forbes.com Legendary NBA center Robert Parish was once asked about knowing when it was time to retire. It could be argued that few are as familiar with the subject as Parish, who…

Blinken: China Is The Number One Threat To US-Led 'Liberal World Order'

zerohedge.com Blinken: China Is The Number One Threat To US-Led 'Liberal World Order' Washington has been sinking billions of dollars into the Ukraine conflict, in the name of defeating…

There is now a high-speed train traveling over water

thestreet.com This ain't no midnight train to Georgia. If you're in China and you're in a hurry, then a ride on one of the country's high-speed trains might be just the thing for you.…

Joe Biden's billion-dollar oil mistake

unherd.com One of the many ironies of the Just Stop Oil movement is that, for the past year, their protests have been positively correlated with the price of oil. If you were tempted…

Newsweek hires Brar as China news reporter

talkingbiznews.com Aadil Brar will join Newsweek as a China news reporter based in Taipei. Since January 2023, he has been a visiting scholar at National Chengchi University in Taiwan. Brar…

San Sebastian Premiere ‘A Journey in Spring’ Takes on the Cyclical Nature of Life: ‘It’s Birth and Death, Come and Go’

variety.com San Sebastian premiere ‘A Journey in Spring’ takes on the nature of life, say debuting Taiwanese directors Tzu-Hui Peng and Ping-Wen Wang. “I have a very close relationship…

Malaysia Aims To Become A Semiconductor Powerhouse

zerohedge.com Malaysia Aims To Become A Semiconductor Powerhouse Locals are telling Nikkei that Kuala Lumpur's semiconductor industry is bustling in a way it hasn't in 34 years. Speaking…

Artificial heart maker Carmat's future seen in hands of core backers

aol.com Troubled artificial heart maker Carmat is appealing to key shareholders led by Airbus to invest new funds to avoid the collapse of the 30-year-old venture dating back to a…

Why Have Conservatives Started Being So Critical of China? Wonders Oblivious Washington Post Columnist

mediaite.com Screenshot via Fox News The Washington Post‘s Philip Bump set out to answer a question he — and only he — lacked the answer to on Thursday. After watching Wednesday night’s…

Ted Hope Talks the Future of Documentary Distribution: ‘We Need a Slow Food Movement for Film’

variety.com In “Invisible Nation,” director Vanessa Hope investigates the election and tenure of Tsai Ing-wen, the first female president of Taiwan. The 85-minute documentary follows…

Pre-Holiday Liftoff, Week In Review

forbes.com Asian equities had a mixed week as China reported better-than-expected industrial profits for August, up +17% year-over-year versus July’s -7%, in another sign that China’s…

US accuses China of spreading "digital authoritarianism" worldwide

newsweek.com The U.S. State Department has accused China of launching a global information war by promoting "digital authoritarianism," according to a report published on Thursday by its…

American Influence Is Needed in Latin America Now Like Never Before

newsweek.com In 2023, a visitor to the Panama Canal might think they were in China. Ports at both ends of the Canal are managed by companies from the People's Republic of China (PRC),…

The Neoclassical Growth of China

nakedcapitalism.com Yves here. I’m skeptical of models with n = 3 (although the authors claim results would be pretty similar with n = 5. There are lots of other quibbles. Michael Pettis has…

Mineko’s Night Market builds on 2023’s cozy game obsession

polygon.com Years ago, I visited Houtong Cat Village, a former coal mining town in Taiwan that has since been taken over by cats. The place is a cornucopia of feline residents: black…

Upwardly mobile: Six of Canada’s Top Growing Companies on how they keep on expanding

theglobeandmail.com Kamran Khan, an infectious-disease physician and professor in the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine, founded BlueDot in 2013—but there was a decade of academic…

Today's Logistics Report: Disrupting Cross-Border Supply Chains; Crude Oil Prices Keep Gushing

createsend.com Revised figures show the U.S. economy grew at a 2.1% annual pace in the second quarter. (MarketWatch) United Parcel Service is buying MNX Global Logistics, adding to the…

iPhone 15: users of Pro and Pro Max models complain of overheating issues

theguardian.com Apple is facing complaints from users about overheating in relation to its new iPhone 15 models, with some customers claiming the titanium frame becomes too hot to hold. The…

Nvidia CEO's signature leather jackets are so popular that websites are selling lookalikes using his name and photo

aol.com None Online sellers are using his name and image in listings for lookalike leather jackets. • None Like Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg, Huang is a tech CEO who prefers a…

U.S. legal giant Mintz Levin hires four more Bay Street stars to beef up fast-growing Toronto office

theglobeandmail.com Four more high-profile Bay Street lawyers have defected to Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo PC’s new Toronto office, bringing the U.S. legal giant’s Canadian…

Stock market today: Asian shares mixed, with most regional markets closed after Wall St ticks higher

aol.com Asian markets were mixed on Friday, with only a few open due to public holidays across the region. U.S. futures edged higher while oil prices were little changed. Tokyo's…

U.S.-China Chip War Nears Moment Of Truth

investors.com The world's most consequential election in 2024 for the world — and likely the S&P 500 — may not be in the U.S., but in Taiwan this coming January. If there's one thing that…

Stock Market Forecast For The Next Six Months: After Big Gains In Tech Stocks, Eye These Caution Signs

investors.com After a decent, though uneven, run for stocks from January through the end of June, the stock market forecast for the next six months through the end of the year remains…

Taiwan Unveils First Domestic-Made Submarine With Eye On China Threat

zerohedge.com Taiwan Unveils First Domestic-Made Submarine With Eye On China Threat Taiwan has unveiled its first-ever domestically built submarine in a rollout ceremony on Thursday led…

Supermicro CEO: 20% of datacenters to adopt liquid cooling

theregister.com Supermicro's founder, president and CEO Charles Liang has suggested a fifth of datacenters – maybe more – will need to adopt liquid cooling in coming years. Liang shared…

iPhone 15 is too hot to handle

theregister.com Apple's iPhone 15 is so hot right now, just not in the way that Apple would prefer. After only a week on sale, forums and message boards are full of claims that iPhone 15…

Victor Davis Hanson: The Ukrainian Gordian Knot

zerohedge.com Victor Davis Hanson: The Ukrainian Gordian Knot Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness, Most Americans understandably favor the Ukrainian resistance against…

Delivering Alpha live updates: Bill Ackman talks struggling stock market, surging interest rates

cnbc.com While inflation may be under control and the Fed at, or at least near, the end of its rate-hiking cycle, Rick Rieder, BlackRock senior managing director and chief investment…

Stop Trying to “Contain” China in Southeast Asia

mises.org It was a laughable moment when President Joe Biden said at a press conference during his visit to Hanoi that the United States wasn’t seeking to contain China. Despite…

China’s Uses ‘Deceptive’ Methods to Sow Disinformation, U.S. Says

nytimes.com The State Department reports that China is using various methods, including buying stakes in media organizations and using social media, to spread propaganda. The State…

Taiwan’s New Submarines Could Save It From Chinese Takeover

forbes.com Taiwan christened its first homemade submarine on Thursday. It’s the culmination of a crash effort that began in 2014, has cost potentially billions of dollars and…

TSMC’s Chip Recovery May Be Delayed, Says J.P. Morgan

barrons.com J.P. Morgan analyst Gokul Hariharan predicts Taiwan Semi will offer a mixed outlook next month. But 2025 will be a “big year” for TSMC, as its customers launch new chips

Taiwan's first homemade submarine arrives with eye on China tensions

newsweek.com Taiwan unveiled the first of eight planned domestically produced submarines on Thursday to much fanfare, with the island's leadership lauding it as a historic leap forward…

Billionaire with ‘more wine than could be drunk in a lifetime’ to sell 25,000 bottles worth $50M

cnn.com Taiwanese billionaire Pierre Chen is auctioning off 25,000 bottles of wine from his vast collection, with some of the rarest items expected to fetch as much as $190,000…