Chip wars and the supply chain
We examine the global competition and export controls shaping semiconductor manufacturing. This tracks how bottlenecks in the chip supply chain affect nations and companies.
Briefs
- FBI arrests woman accused of watching Taiwan president’s family
- Four states agree a follow-up mechanism for Nile and Red Sea positions
- Uchida puts AI’s demand boom on Japan’s monetary-policy agenda
- Japan’s Nikkei gains 2 per cent after weaker US hiring cools Fed rate bets
- CSL commits 355 million dollars and development funding to Alentis deal
- Saudi Aramco gives Asian buyers its deepest Arab Light discount since 2020
- AMRO holds its 2026 ASEAN+3 growth forecast at 4.1 per cent as AI exports support the region
- Trump names Ferguson, Michael and Kupor to AI task-force leadership
- Rozetta opens early access to a new Japanese–English translation mode
- Punggol robots will request pedestrian signals by radio
- NEC plans security-monitoring handovers across Japan, Europe and the US
- DeepSeek approaches US models on LiveBench, with a reported gap of 3 percent
- IWF’s six-month AI abuse-image count exceeds the whole of 2025
- Six model routers fail to beat random selection in an experiment
- BitNest reduces memory by putting its draft inside shared weights
- Altman defends broad AI access despite accepting some risks
- Vučić proposes a 12-minister cabinet as Serbia’s campaign opens
- Tshisekedi proposes compensation for victims of Congo river patrol clash
- Steinmeier warns Germany’s unity depends on defending democracy
- Fire breaks out at Aramco’s Riyadh refinery as Houthis claim a strike
- Pakistan’s talks leave Imran Khan’s party march in place
- Mulino opens a Singapore agenda of ports, carbon credits and chips
- Merz’s Kyiv visit brings €1 billion in military aid and €350 million for energy repairs
- Government forces take control of Mekelle as Tigray leaders withdraw
- India and Pakistan summon diplomats over two disputed border deaths
- Grossi seeks a repair ceasefire for Zaporizhzhia’s power connection
- Yemen’s government announces an offensive to retake Houthi-held territory
- Türkiye’s September exports rise 15.4% to $26 billion
- SEBI’s closing-auction consultation drew about 20,000 comments
- India’s Malhotra warns calm can build risk and sets resilience priorities
Columns
- CSL’s research bill beyond the first cheque
- BitNest’s speed needs an action-time denominator
- The LAX arrest puts an alleged foreign-state link to the test
- The cost calculation inside HDFC’s deposit growth
- Strata’s shorter queue takes memory from its expert cache
- Ceuta’s route to reception runs through identification
- YES Bank’s growth comes with a changing deposit mix
- The operational limit of inspection authority at Thitu
- The store denominator inside DMart’s revenue
- Terafab separates ownership from operating expertise
- Panama’s Singapore option: the canal minister’s next task
- The Daniel Robson byline obscures who answers for the story
- The export gate in the G7 diesel bargain
- Two rate calculations inside Nasdaq’s advance
- Changing agent memory independently of the model
- The money’s route after designation
- The two burdens inside Cerebras’s price
- URIF’s batteries are operating while its minerals partnership develops
- One $123 bid, two shareholder calculations
- Giving the rules engine the final count in a compliance agent
- Tesla’s delivery surprise and the profitability test
- The diesel bargain has a delivery date as well as a barrel count
- Thin hiring makes the next paycheck harder to reach
- Do AstaBrief’s citations preserve a finding’s scope?
- USS Theodore Roosevelt is under way; endurance sets the weight
- Narrow gates in propane’s growing export chain
- India draws a boundary inside the G20 food consensus
- The savings assumption in the price of IPS
- TopK-Guided measures its gain in operations
- Pacific Link’s trade leverage takes shape in its authorisation conditions