Short Reads

Showing 5 of 5 articles.

Short Read

Australia’s Mogami order is also a test of its shipbuilding capacity

Australia has bought a Japanese frigate design. The politically important industrial promise is that later ships will be built domestically, subject to Henderson’s consolidation. The designated yard is currently proving itself on much simpler vessels.

1 October 2026 · Australia · Japan

Short Read

Korea makes the memory. Taiwan packages it. Japan enables the yield.

TSMC is adding packaging capacity rapidly, but C.C. Wei still says packaging is limiting customers’ growth. SK hynix is shipping HBM4 under long-term contracts while demand still exceeds supply. Tokyo Electron’s HBM tools sit in the manufacturing layer that helps the join yield.

24 September 2026 · Korea · Taiwan · Japan

Short Read

Cursor targets APJ's legacy software problem, worth USD 20 billion a year

Cursor is selling enterprises in Asia-Pacific and Japan on the economics of refactoring software they can no longer afford to maintain, with the opportunity estimated at about USD 20 billion a year. Can SpaceX turn that modernisation proposition into a broader regional AI platform?

3 September 2026 · Japan · Singapore · Indonesia · India · Australia · APAC