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 close-up of a bare red printed circuit board showing component outlines and designators, illustrating a report on advanced foundry price increases.
Business

Samsung Raised Foundry Prices Up To 15% While Losing Market Share

A supplier losing customers normally cuts prices. This one raised them, which means the lines are full — and the smallest increase, almost 10 per cent on 8nm, is the one that reaches Southeast Asian manufacturing.

20 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
A dark circuit board photographed close up, showing memory chips and surface-mounted components, illustrating a report on a large AI infrastructure funding round.
Business

River AI Raised US$1.1bn At Two Months Old, And Both GPU Vendors Are In It

An API in preview, no revenue to speak of, and an estimated US$5bn post-money. The detail worth reading is that Nvidia and AMD Ventures made the same bet in the same round — and that Temasek is on the list.

19 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
A line of wind turbines on a dry coastal plain with cargo ships on the horizon, illustrating a report on a gigawatt-scale data centre campus in Brazil.
Business

ByteDance Is Building A Gigawatt In Brazil, And The Power Contract Is The Part Southeast Asia Cannot Copy

Construction has begun at Pecém in Ceará: 20 halls, 200 MW initial IT capacity, expansion toward 1 GW, backed by a 20-year US$2 billion wind supply agreement. Long-term clean power contracting has stopped being a sustainability addendum and become the siting decision.

19 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
An unbranded circuit board photographed against white, illustrating a report on Etched's inference hardware and its funding round.
Business

Etched Doubled to US$21 Billion After Its First Customer Led the Round

Jane Street tested the hardware, installed the first shipped system in its own data centre, then led the raise. The architecture splits inference into its prefill and decode phases, which is the same diagnosis four other companies reached this fortnight.

19 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
Fibre-optic and network cables with connectors on a white surface, illustrating a report on Marvell's interconnect business.
Business

Marvell's Year Was Won by the Chips That Move Data, Not the Ones That Compute

A 181 per cent return ahead of Broadcom and Nvidia, driven by optical interconnect rather than the custom silicon the company is usually discussed through. The ASIC thesis is not wrong, it is a fiscal-2028 event.

18 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
Illuminated blue fibre-optic strands in darkness, illustrating a report on the GitHub outage of 17 August 2026.
Business

GitHub Was Degraded for Three Hours and Build Pipelines Went With It

Archive downloads failed at around 50 per cent during the three-hour incident, which is what broke continuous integration in organisations that did not think they depended on GitHub being up. Ours was one of them, and the logs are in the piece.

18 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
Red laser beams fanning out in a dark room, illustrating a report on Infleqtion's neutral-atom quantum results.
Business

Infleqtion Posted US$12.6 Million in Quantum Revenue, All of It Organic

Revenue up 116 per cent and entirely organic, against IonQ's larger partly-acquired figure. Infleqtion also counts in logical qubits rather than physical ones, and its US$100 million from Commerce is a letter of intent rather than money received.

17 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
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
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