Eva Chin writes for RECATOOLS on business and commerce in Southeast Asia: the commercial decisions small businesses actually face, and the markets and regulation around them. She also covers Chinese naming and cultural practice, education and qualifications across the region, and the arithmetic of a tropical home. Coverage of cultural practice is educational — it explains what a tradition holds and where it came from, and does not make predictive claims.

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A tower crane above a high-rise under construction, illustrating a report on SK hynix's two new memory fabs and their build schedule.
Business

SK hynix Approved US$38 Billion of Fabs. The First Cleanroom Opens in 2028.

Memory prices have roughly doubled this year. The capacity that answers them breaks ground in 2027 and produces from late 2028, and the moderation now showing up in forecasts is consumer buyers being priced out rather than the shortage easing.

17 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
Memory modules studded with flash packages, illustrating a report on the change in Kioxia's largest shareholder.
Business

Kioxia's Largest Shareholder Is Now a Vehicle Backed by a Rival

Toshiba sold enough stock to fall into second place behind a Bain vehicle financed by SK hynix. The Korean company holds convertible bonds rather than shares, and is capped at 15 per cent of the votes until 2028.

17 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
Hands using a calculator beside documents and folders, illustrating a report on a fund buying accounting firms to run AI through them.
Business

Everyone Is Selling AI to Accounting Firms. This One Is Buying Them.

Thrive Holdings raised US$2 billion at a US$12 billion valuation to acquire accounting and IT firms rather than sell them software. OpenAI owns a stake in the buyer and lends it engineers, which is a structure worth examining on its own.

16 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
Laser equipment on an optical bench, illustrating a report on quantum computing company IonQ and what its revenue actually measures.
Business

A Quantum Company Reported Real Revenue. Read Which Part Is Quantum Computing.

Revenue up 287 per cent to US$80.1 million, a fifth consecutive record quarter, and a US$1.8 billion foundry purchase by a company guiding to under US$300 million a year. The organic figure is 132 per cent, and the four segments are not equally speculative.

16 Aug 2026 · 7 min read
A laptop, notebook and phone on a desk, illustrating a report on venture funding flowing into tools that secure enterprise AI systems.
Business

AI Security Becomes Its Own Budget Line

Seven of the twelve cybersecurity funding deals announced between mid-July and early August went to companies protecting AI agents and applications. Mindgard's US$30 million Series A is one of them, and its product list describes what enterprises can no longer answer for themselves.

15 Aug 2026 · 7 min read
Industrial production equipment on a factory line, illustrating a report on South Korea funding its chip equipment and materials suppliers.
Business

South Korea Has a New Chip Fund. Samsung and SK Hynix Are Not the Point.

Five trillion won goes to materials, components, equipment and fabless design - the layer under and alongside the champions. A country with two of the best memory makers on earth has decided the marginal state dollar belongs elsewhere.

15 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
Traffic at a wide city intersection in China, illustrating a report on the Guangzhou company Pony.ai expanding its robotaxi service into Europe.
Business

2,000 Robotaxis, Five European Cities. One of Them Exists.

Pony.ai and Uber will put more than 2,000 robotaxis across five European cities. Four are unnamed and none has a date, so the number has no denominator. The structure underneath it is the reusable part - and it is the third market-access template we have covered this week.

15 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
Close-up of a green printed circuit board, illustrating a report on SMIC mature-node foundry capacity and rising wafer prices.
Business

SMIC Is Running at 93.7 Per Cent. Prices Are Going Up.

Revenue passed US$3 billion for the first time and profit tripled, but the line that matters came from the earnings call: SMIC intends to charge more. At 93.7 per cent utilisation, and capped on expansion by the same export controls meant to constrain it, the company can.

15 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
Two people at a glass table, one pointing at a specific line on a printed contract.
Business

Two Offers, the Same Salary, and Opposite Answers

Two Singapore offers at the same S$144,000 a year rank in opposite directions depending on what you count. One wins by S$1,020 on cash reaching the bank; the other wins by S$1,200 once employer contributions are counted. The cause is the CPF ceilings, and the lesson is that the employer's share is real pay no offer letter mentions.

13 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
Close-up of a green printed circuit board showing surface-mounted components, solder pads and a connector edge
Business

Foxconn Now Earns More From AI Racks Than From Everything Apple

Cloud and networking hit 51 per cent of second-quarter revenue against 29 for consumer electronics - the first time AI servers have outearned the iPhone business. The 2027 ceiling is now TSMC's packaging line, not Foxconn's floor space.

13 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
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