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Samsung to Keep Up Chip Spending Despite 8-Year Low Profits
Samsung to Keep Up Chip Spending Despite 8-Year Low Profits

Samsung’s plans have fanned concern that the world's biggest memory chipmaker intends to draw on its deep pockets to gain market share from smaller peers

China’s Baidu to Launch ChatGPT-Style AI Bot Soon
China’s Baidu to Launch ChatGPT-Style AI Bot Soon

Baidu will launch the chatbot as a standalone application and will gradually merge the service into its search engine

Nikkei Edges Ahead But Hang Seng Slides as Rate Hikes Loom
Nikkei Edges Ahead But Hang Seng Slides as Rate Hikes Loom

Investors were restrained on Monday with all eyes on this week’s US Federal Reserve meeting and earning announcements from several tech giants

Japan Chip Equipment Makers Unaware of New China Restrictions
Adani Group’s Market Meltdown Hits $70 Billion Despite Rebuttal
China’s 2022 Smartphone Sales Plunge to Lowest in a Decade
Steps Made Towards Deal on Fresh China Chip Curbs: ASML
India Planning to Classify Clean Tech to Attract Investors
Dutch PM ‘May Not Disclose’ Result Of China Chip Curbs Talks
Bankers on Adani’s $2.5Bn Share Sale Mull Delay, Price Cut

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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