Asia AI Chips and Hardware
Taiwan for logic, Korea for memory, Japan for materials — and why packaging, power, and water now bind harder than model design.
East Asian Technology Intelligence
Japan & China technology, translated and contextualized for Western readers
Taiwan for logic, Korea for memory, Japan for materials — and why packaging, power, and water now bind harder than model design.
Japan leans voluntary, China prescriptive, South Korea statutory, Singapore framework-driven. Five markets, five philosophies, and why one AI product won't clear all of them.
Singapore ran out of land, Johor absorbed the overflow, Japan's grid splits in two down the middle, and Korea's demand sits nowhere near its…
Why Asian deployment starts on the factory floor and in the compliance department rather than the chat window — and which incumbents are actually…
Everyone wants a domestic model, almost nobody can be sovereign at silicon, and most "sovereign AI" turns out to be a procurement standard rather…
Capital concentrating into AI and chips, governments picking sectors, and IPOs still doing the work acquisitions do elsewhere.
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