Hong Kong IPOs 2025: Market views, mega deals, emerging trends Hong Kong cemented its status as the world’s leading initial public offerings venue in 2025, marking a year of momentum, progress and transformation. By mid-December, the market had raised HKD274.6 billion (USD35.2 billion) from 106 new listings, with four of the world’s top 10 IPOs…
Good morning. There’s been a recurring theme to some of the AI conversations I’ve had this week: using the technology to find things in sprawling corporations. For all that agentic AI promises for the future, several executives told me that the real value right now is in locating assets—documents, devices, intellectual property, et cetera—within companies. …
The use of chips for artificial intelligence and electric vehicles (EVs) will offer strong demand underpinning the development of mainland China’s semiconductor industry, according to veterans of the sector at an annual gathering in Shanghai. At the 2025 Global Semiconductor Market Summit, chip executives discussed the industry’s future amid US-China tech rivalry and surging demand…
Good morning. I had the pleasure of hosting more than a dozen executives yesterday in a Fortune CEO roundtable discussion about how their strategies are shifting amid economic uncertainty and global complexity. We kicked things off with former Atlanta Fed president Dennis Lockhart, who outlined the state of the economy and memorably said that it…
China mandates all state-funded data centres to use domestic AI chips, escalating its tech rivalry with the US. China Tightens Rules on Data Centres, Mandates Use of Domestic AI Chips. The Chinese government has introduced new regulations requiring all data centre projects that receive state funding to use only domestically manufactured artificial intelligence (AI) chips,…
News | Semiconductors Published on: 05. November 2025 China is continuing to tighten the thumbscrews in the tech sector: According to insiders, state-funded data centers will only be permitted to use domestic processors and in some cases even have to remove foreign chips that have already been installed. Last updated: 05. November 2025 Source link
TechWorks has launched Women in TechWorks, a member-led initiative designed to address the under-representation of women in the UK’s technology sector and support their development at all stages of their careers. The ongoing challenge of boosting gender diversity within the technology workforce is widely recognised, and TechWorks’ new initiative aims to create greater awareness, celebrate…
Nov 1, 2025 Investors are closely studying a draft of Beijing’s economic and social development plan for the next five years, according to the South China Morning Post. Over the past week, they have been examining the blueprint that emerged from a four-day Communist Party plenum concluding on October 23. During the plenum, party chief…
As the global AI race heats up, US chipmakers are ramping up spending while China’s tech giants race to overcome sanctions with a self-sufficiency playbook — two divergent strategies chasing the same prize. Which path will define the future of artificial intelligence? Source link
President Trump and his team have buoyed markets in recent days with details about what they describe as a framework of a trade deal with China, which the president will look to finalize Thursday during a high-stakes summit in South Korea with Chinese President Xi Jinping. A question heading into the talks is perhaps what…