Two of Asia’s biggest tech manufacturing centres are scrambling for vaccines as Covid-19 surges threaten to complicate a global supply chain already facing unprecedented chip and component shortages. Taiwan, home to the world’s largest supply of advanced chips, that are key to almost all consumer appliances and vehicles, and Vietnam, an electronics manufacturing hub, in recent weeks have both seen factories hit by the coronavirus during their worst coronavirus waves of the pandemic. Both countri
Gone are the days when Japan was dominant in semiconductor and battery production, industries that are increasingly relevant in the modern world. The need to decarbonize the economy in line with global climate change efforts is serving as a wake-up call to Japanese manufacturers as well as the government…
Gone are the days when Japan was dominant in semiconductor and battery production, industries that are increasingly relevant in the modern world. The need to decarbonize the economy in line with global climate change efforts is serving as a wake-up call to Japanese manufacturers.