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Korea’s Naver Office Combines Robots, Humans – Nikkei
Korea’s Naver Office Combines Robots, Humans – Nikkei

The 1784 office in the tech hub of Pangyo, near Seoul, has about 100 robots that perform menial tasks such as deliveries of food, beverages, parcels and documents

Google Fires ‘AI is Sentient’ Engineer – Big Technology
Google Fires ‘AI is Sentient’ Engineer – Big Technology

Google, which placed software engineer Blake Lemoine on leave last month after he made the outlandish claims, said he had violated company policies

Semiconductor Sector Outgrows Boom and Bust Cycles: Pimco
Semiconductor Sector Outgrows Boom and Bust Cycles: Pimco

Historically, chip demand – such as for computers in the 1980s, cellphones in the 2000s and smartphones in the 2010s – would lead manufacturers to aggressively expand capacity.

Three Arrows Excluded as Crypto White Knight Rescues Voyager
China Tech Firms Fear Didi $1.2bn Fine Sign of More to Come
China’s SMIC Beats Sanctions to Make 7nm Chips – TechInsights
Samsung Looks to Texas Tax Breaks as it Plots Chip Expansion
US Crypto Insider Trading Suspect ‘Tried to Flee to India’
Asia-Focused Crypto Platform Zipmex Resumes Withdrawals
China Videogame Sector Reports First-Ever Drop in Revenue

Fintech: The Big Picture

ASML in the Centre of the Chip War

With a market cap of$240 billion, chipmaker ASML is Europe’s most valuable tech company. Its market-leading position comes from its monopoly in Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography (EUV) machines which allow chipmakers to make smaller, faster and smarter semiconductors