Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic Hi everyone! This is Lauly, waving hello from the gloomy weather in Taipei.It has been a month since I last hosted #techAsia. During that time, Taiwan had a nine-day Lunar New Year holiday, though for me it was not as chill and restful as it used to be. For one, my entire family \u2014 including my toddler \u2014 came down with gastroenteritis one after another and we had to go to the emergency room twice during the break. It turns out Taiwan has been experiencing waves of flu and gastroenteritis for a while. It took me a week just to find a clinic in Taipei that had flu shots and Covid vaccines in stock, as so many people rushed to get the jabs. The government even had to import more to support the sudden demand.Personal issues aside, the tech industry also had a turbulent few weeks, from the emergence of China\u2019s DeepSeek to US President Donald Trump\u2019s frequent threats of tariffs on imports from not only China but also neighbours Canada and Mexico.Trump also singled out Taiwan by name several times. He said the democratic-ruled island \u201ctook our chip business away\u201d and warned he would levy a tariff of 25 per cent or more on semiconductor imports. His comments have added further uncertainty to the global chip industry and to relations between the US and its \u201clike-minded\u201d allies.Hours after Trump\u2019s latest criticism, Taiwan President Lai Ching-te held a rare live-streaming press conference\u00a0in which he called on the Taiwanese people to \u201crest assured\u201d in the island\u2019s relations with the US Lai vowed to expand Taiwan\u2019s investment and procurement in the US to level out the trade balance, and to increase Taiwan\u2019s defence budget \u2014 a hint it would buy more weapons from Washington. He also said the two sides would work closely on \u201cdevelopment and manufacturing of AI chips and advanced semiconductors\u201d.Will Lai\u2019s message help mitigate the risks from tariffs, soothe the uncertainties of its all-important chip industry and draw the island closer to the Trump administration? We don\u2019t know.I got an unexpected call from an executive of an Apple and Nvidia supplier recently, asking me to join him for a coffee break nearby. He seemed calm but spent the next hour complaining about the recent on-and-off tariffs on Mexican goods and the uncertainty over who the next tariff target might be. He said there is no way for any tech supplier to make any decision about overseas capacity planning at the moment. \u201cSuch planning isn\u2019t playing house. Can you estimate how much it costs and how much time it takes to move capacity from one place to another?\u201dOn top of that, it is getting harder for suppliers to shift production capacity away from China these days. Beijing has stepped up scrutiny\u00a0of exports of equipment and materials by suppliers of Apple and other American tech companies, slowing their expansions to south-east Asia and India, Nikkei Asia reported last month.Checking with one of my sources last week, it seems the situation is continuing.\u201cIt\u2019s hard to move more [from China], and the destination we moved to could face higher tariffs,\u201d a manager of a Google supplier said. \u201cI don\u2019t see a solution here.\u201dBig things in small packagesASE Technology Holding, the world\u2019s biggest chip packaging and testing supplier, is opening by far its largest overseas operation\u00a0in Penang, Malaysia, as it looks to robotics and artificial intelligence for new growth, Nikkei Asia\u2019s Cheng Ting-Fang reports from Malaysia.Company CEO Tien Wu praised Malaysia\u2019s social and economic stability and said the country has been taking a neutral stance between the US and China. \u201cIt\u2019s a location that most of our clients accept, and in terms of distance, Malaysia sits between Taiwan and India, where we expect the chip supply chain could grow later.\u201dASE joins a string of chip companies expanding in the south-east Asian country as the trend for supply chain diversification rolls on. Its affiliate Siliconware Precision Industries, also known as SPIL, a key supplier to MediaTek and Nvidia, is building its first facility in Penang, while Intel has its most important overseas packaging and testing site there. European chipmaker Infineon opened its largest power semiconductor plant in the country, and Lam Research has established a sizeable chipmaking tool facility there.Separately, ASE also announced plans to invest $200mn to trial next-generation chip packaging technology built on square substrates, rather than traditional round wafers, in an attempt to boost AI computing performance.Making it in IndiaApple has quietly doubled down on India as a manufacturing partner for its flagship product, the iPhone, in perhaps the most prominent global example of the \u201cChina plus one\u201d strategy.The company has long relied on China, but rising tensions between Beijing and Washington have underlined the need to diversify, accelerating a process\u00a0that started during the pandemic, write the Financial Times\u2019 Michael Acton\u00a0and John Reed.Apple has found willing partners in India, including Tata Electronics, which has made a big bid for its manufacturing business. It aims to build 25 per cent of iPhones in India by 2027, but the challenges involved are significant.India remains largely a \u201cscrewdriver\u201d operation, requiring flown-in components. Visas for crucial Chinese employees, as well as key equipment, have been held up during disputes between the two Asian giants. Gender-based violence in India remains a concern in a workforce that relies upon women. Apple must navigate these issues if it is to reach \u201ceconomies of scale\u201d in the country.Call it a comebackHuawei hosted a rare overseas smartphone launch event in Kuala Lumpur as the embattled Chinese tech giant aims to restore its consumer electronics business\u00a0to global prominence despite an ongoing US crackdown on the company, Nikkei Asia\u2019s Cheng Ting-Fang, Lauly Li\u00a0and Noman Goh write.The launch event, introducing its most expensive tri-fold Mate XT phone with a starting price tag of Rmb19,000 ($2,745), comes two months after Huawei brought its bi-fold Mate X6 and midrange line-up Nova 13 in Dubai. South-east Asia and the Middle East are important markets for Huawei if it is to keep its overall business, including its vital telecom equipment segment, afloat in the face of Washington\u2019s restrictions.The events underscore Huawei\u2019s determination to take its smartphones \u2014 powered by the company\u2019s own Harmony operating system \u2014 back to the global stage. More than 93 per cent of its smartphones are currently sold in China.Going deepChinese internet giant Tencent is joining the growing list of Big Tech companies embracing DeepSeek\u2019s artificial intelligence model, a move that is expected to shake up China\u2019s chatbot market, Nikkei Asia\u2019s Cissy Zhou\u00a0writes.Tencent has begun beta testing access to DeepSeek on Weixin, the domestic version of its WeChat app, according to the company, coming amid similar moves by Baidu, Huawei, NetEase, BYD and ByteDance\u2019s Lark. The beta test allows Weixin users to access an \u201cAI Search\u201d feature through the app\u2019s search box, choosing between \u201cQuick Response\u201d or \u201cDeep Search\u201d, powered by DeepSeek-R1.These moves turn up the heat on Baidu, which is already seeing some of its users shift to Weixin Search from Baidu Search, the dominant service in the Chinese search market since Beijing banned Google in 2010. ByteDance, whose Doubao logged the highest daily active users among chatbots last year, is feeling the pressure, too.Suggested readsTesla braces for delay to China licence as Trump trade tensions mount\u00a0(FT)TikTok reels in voters for far right ahead of German election\u00a0(Nikkei Asia)Nvidia partner Siam AI chases digital sovereignty with 100MW data centre\u00a0(Nikkei Asia)Bain concedes to KKR in $4bn fight for Japan\u2019s Fuji Soft\u00a0(FT)DeepSeek shows open-sourcing AI models boosts adoption: Baidu CEO\u00a0(Nikkei Asia)China tightens grip on tech, minerals and engineers as trade war spirals\u00a0(FT)Arm to launch its own chip in move that could upend semiconductor industry\u00a0(FT)SoftBank\u2019s AI strategy becomes clearer but chip ambitions remain cloudy\u00a0(Nikkei Asia)Made-in-Japan drones to be supplied to Indo-Pacific partners\u00a0(Nikkei Asia)Shein IPO plans hit by Trump\u2019s low-cost parcels crackdown\u00a0(FT)#techAsia is co-ordinated by Nikkei Asia\u2019s Katherine Creel in Tokyo, with assistance from the FT tech desk in London. Sign up here at Nikkei Asia to receive #techAsia each week. The editorial team can be reached at techasia@nex.nikkei.co.jp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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