Nikkei Asia

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In Tech Latest, Nikkei Asia brings you regular updates on the freshest technology news from Asia. From semiconductors to space travel, our team of local reporters are here to keep you up-to-date on the tech trends that matter.

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Jul 6, 2026

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Episodes

Tech Latest: Fujitsu mired in U.K. Post Office scandal 26.01.2024

Tech Latest by Nikkei Asia brings you the newest updates from Asia's technology industry. In this episode, Alice French talks to London correspondent Rhyannon Bartlett-Imadegawa about the latest on Japanese IT giant Fujitsu’s entanglement in the U.K. Post Office scandal.  *Starting next month, we will be releasing our podcast on Tuesdays. Our next episode drops on Tuesday, Feb.13. Read more on...

Tech Latest: Panasonic's EV battery comeback plan 19.01.2024

Tech Latest by Nikkei Asia brings you the newest updates from Asia's technology industry. In this episode, Jada Nagumo chats to Tokyo correspondent Ryohtaroh Satoh about how Japan's Panasonic Energy is hoping to restore its leadership in the EV battery market with an investment push in the U.S. Read more on the topic, and other news from across Asia, at ⁠ ⁠https://asia.nikkei.com⁠ You can...

Tech Latest: Flying cars, baby tech and AI at CES 2024 12.01.2024

Tech Latest by Nikkei Asia brings you the newest updates from Asia's technology industry. In this first episode of 2024, Alice French hears from correspondents Yifan Yu and Cissy Zhou and tech editor Katey Creel, who are on the ground at CES, the world's largest consumer technology expo, in Las Vegas. Read more on the topic, and other news from across Asia, at ⁠ https://asia.nikkei.com You...

Tech Latest 2023 roundup: AI, chips and passenger jets 15.12.2023

In this special year-end Tech Latest episode, Nikkei Asia's reporters look back on their highlights from tech news in 2023. You can read their top tech picks below: -- Annie: ⁠The great nanometer chip race⁠ -- Akito: ⁠U.S. big tech won't shake its China addiction⁠ -- Cissy: ⁠China tells big tech companies not to offer ChatGPT services⁠ -- Kenji: ⁠China's COMAC soars, helped by state-ba...

Tech Latest: China's economic slowdown fears grip tech sector 08.12.2023

Tech Latest by Nikkei Asia brings you the newest updates from Asia's technology industry. In this episode, Alice French talks to Kenji Kawase, our senior business news correspondent in Hong Kong, for more on the impact that China’s economic slowdown is having on the world’s tech industry, plus the latest on what’s going on at OpenAI.  Read more on the topic, and other news from across Asia, at...

Tech Latest: Is it 'games over' for ByteDance? 01.12.2023

Tech Latest by Nikkei Asia brings you the newest updates from Asia's technology industry. In this episode, Alice French talks to Cissy Zhou, one of our correspondents in Hong Kong, about ByteDance’s recent shock layoffs, and what they mean for the gaming industry in China and beyond. Read more on the topic, and other news from across Asia, at  https://asia.nikkei.com/ You can register for our...

Tech Latest: EV battery makers brace for China graphite export curbs 24.11.2023

Tech Latest by Nikkei Asia brings you the newest updates from Asia's technology industry. In this episode, Alice French talks to Tokyo correspondent Ryohtaroh Satoh about what some upcoming export controls on Chinese graphite could mean for EV battery makers across Asia -- and the world. Read more on the topic, and other news from across Asia, at  ⁠⁠⁠⁠asia.nikkei.com⁠⁠⁠⁠ You can register for o...

Tech Latest: China's nuclear program siphons Japanese tech 17.11.2023

Tech Latest by Nikkei Asia brings you the newest updates from Asia's technology industry. In this episode, Alice French talks to senior business news correspondent Kenji Kawase about how Japanese machine tools have found themselves at the center of China's nuclear weapons efforts. Read more on the topic, and other news from across Asia, at  ⁠⁠⁠asia.nikkei.com⁠⁠⁠ Sign up for our Nov. 21 web...

Tech Latest: Chipmakers squeezed by new U.S. export rules 10.11.2023

Tech Latest by Nikkei Asia brings you the newest updates from Asia's technology industry. In this episode, Jada Nagumo is chatting with Annie Cheng Ting-Fang, our tech correspondent from Taipei, about the latest developments in the U.S.-China chip race. Read more on the topic, and other news from across Asia, at  ⁠⁠asia.nikkei.com⁠⁠ Sign up for Annie's Nov. 21 webinar on the Untold Story o...

Tech Latest: The U.S.-China race for AI rules 02.11.2023

Tech Latest by Nikkei Asia brings you the newest updates from Asia's technology industry. In this episode, Jada Nagumo is chatting with Cissy Zhou, our Hong Kong senior business news correspondent, about the global race for AI rules. Read more on the topic, and other news from across Asia, at  ⁠asia.nikkei.com⁠ You can register for our weekly #techAsia newsletter here:  ⁠https://asia.nikkei.co...

Tech Latest: Inside the iPhone 15's costly components 27.10.2023

Tech Latest by Nikkei Asia brings you the newest updates from Asia's technology industry. In this episode, Jada Nagumo takes a look inside Apple's new iPhone 15 with Akito Tanaka, our chief business news correspondent based in Singapore. You can check out Nikkei Asia's iPhone 15 teardown here: https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technology/iPhone-15-teardown-reveals-10-costlier-parts-than...

Tech Latest: Fresh geopolitical tensions hit TSMC 20.10.2023

Tech Latest by Nikkei Asia brings you the newest updates from Asia's technology industry. In this episode, Alice French talks to Hong Kong chief business news correspondent Kenji Kawase, about renewed geopolitical tensions that have emerged in the tech sector this week, and the impact they are having on Taiwanese chipmaker TSMC. Read more on the topic, and other news from across Asia, at  asia...

Tech Latest: Huawei's ambitious smartphone goals for 2024 13.10.2023

Tech Latest by Nikkei Asia brings you the newest updates from Asia's technology industry. In this episode, Alice French talks to Annie Cheng Ting-Fang, our tech correspondent based in Taipei, about Huawei's ambitious smartphone comeback plan and how it hopes to achieve it. Read more on the topic, and other news from across Asia, at  asia.nikkei.com You can register for our weekly #techAsia...

Tech Latest: Progress at TSMC's first Japan plant 06.10.2023

Tech Latest by Nikkei Asia brings you the newest updates from Asia's technology industry. In this episode, Alice French talks to Cissy Zhou, our senior business news correspondent based in Hong Kong, about the progress being made at TSMC's new chip plant in Kumamoto, Japan. Read more on the topic, and other news from across Asia, at  asia.nikkei.com You can register for our weekly #techAsi...

Tech Latest: Why Chinese EV makers are heading West 29.09.2023

Tech Latest by Nikkei Asia brings you the newest updates from Asia's technology industry. In this episode, Alice French talks to Akito Tanaka, our chief business news correspondent based in Singapore, about how and why some of China’s top EV makers are planning to set up manufacturing plants in Europe. Read more on the topic, and other news from across Asia, at  asia.nikkei.com You can registe...

Tech Latest: China's EV domination and Indonesia's battery woes 22.09.2023

Tech Latest by Nikkei Asia brings you the newest updates from Asia's technology industry. In this episode, Jada Nagumo talks to business news correspondent Kenji Kawase in Hong Kong, about how the EU is squaring up to China's domination of the EV market, and why Indonesia is struggling to achieve its goal of becoming the world's EV battery hub. Read more on the topic, and other news fr...

Tech Latest: Apple's iPhone 15 reveal amid China headwinds 15.09.2023

Tech Latest by Nikkei Asia brings you the newest updates from Asia's technology industry. In this episode, Alice French talks to chief tech correspondent Annie Cheng Ting Fang in Taipei, about the waves that the impending release of Apple’s new iPhone 15 has been making across Asia. Read more on the topic, and other news from across Asia, at  asia.nikkei.com You can register for our weekly #te...

Tech Latest: Huawei's 5G comeback and Samsung's smartphone slump 08.09.2023

Tech Latest by Nikkei Asia brings you the newest updates from Asia's technology industry. In this episode, Alice French chats with Hong Kong senior business news correspondent, Cissy Zhou, for the latest on two of Asia’s biggest smartphone giants: Huawei and Samsung. Read more on the topic, and other news from across Asia, at  asia.nikkei.com You can register for our weekly #techAsia newslette...

Tech Latest: BYD's breakthrough and VinFast's bumpy ride 01.09.2023

Tech Latest by Nikkei Asia brings you the newest updates from Asia's technology industry. In this episode, Jada Nagumo talks to Singapore business correspondent Akito Tanaka about the latest achievements of China's BYD and Vietnam's VinFast, the two hottest names in Asia's car industry. Read more on the topic, and other news from across Asia, at  asia.nikkei.com You can register fo...

Tech Latest: Intel's Malaysia plans and India's lunar success 25.08.2023

Tech Latest by Nikkei Asia brings you the newest updates from Asia's technology industry. In this episode, Jada Nagumo talks to Taipei tech correspondents Cheng Ting-Fang and Lauly Li about chip giant Intel's ambitions in Malaysia and India's recent moon-landing success. Read more on the topic, and other news from across Asia, at  asia.nikkei.com You can register for our weekly #techAs...

Tech Latest: Could Japan's Misskey be the next Twitter? 18.08.2023

Tech Latest by Nikkei Asia brings you the newest updates from Asia's technology industry. In this episode, Alice French talks to Tokyo correspondent Ryohtaroh Satoh about the explosion of Misskey, a new Japanese social media platform that's aiming to rival Elon Musk's X. Read more on the topic, and other news from across Asia, at  asia.nikkei.com You can register for our weekly #techAs...

Tech Latest: Inside Apple's shift from China to India 04.08.2023

Tech Latest by Nikkei Asia brings you the newest updates from Asia's technology industry. In this episode, Alice French talks to Taipei tech correspondent Lauly Li, about Apple’s ambitious plans to move its iPhone supply chain from China into India. Read more on the topic, and other news from across Asia, at  asia.nikkei.com You can register for our weekly #techAsia newsletter here:  https://a...

Tech Latest: The Maldives' chip ships to Russia and Huawei's comeback plan 28.07.2023

Tech Latest by Nikkei Asia brings you the newest updates from Asia's technology industry. In this episode, Alice French is talking to Annie Cheng Ting Fang, our Taipei tech correspondent, and Katey Creel, our Tokyo-based business editor, about the unlikely role the Maldives is playing in getting semiconductors into Russia and Huawei’s new chip ambitions. Read more on the topic, and other news...

Tech Latest: HP's shifting supply chain 21.07.2023

Tech Latest by Nikkei Asia brings you the newest updates from Asia's technology industry. In this episode, Jada Nagumo talks to Kenji Kawase, senior business news correspondent in Hong Kong, about how PC giant HP is diversifying its supply chain away from China. Read more on the topic, and other news from across Asia, at  asia.nikkei.com You can register for our weekly #techAsia newsletter her...

Tech Latest: U.S. tech giants' China addiction 14.07.2023

Tech Latest by Nikkei Asia brings you the newest updates from Asia's technology industry. In this episode, Alice French talks to Akito Tanaka, senior business news correspondent in Singapore, about the how U.S. big tech is still reliant on the Chinese market, despite decoupling efforts. Read more on the topic, and other news from across Asia, at  asia.nikkei.com You can register for our weekly...

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