In this second part of our ‘Asian Women in Tech’ series, we take a look at the achievements of “Queenie” Hoi Shan Chan, whose work focus is literally out of this world, and whose career thus far includes a spell at no less than NASA.

Strong global demand for semiconductor chips, in some cases exacerbated by the former U.S. administration’s sanctions against Chinese chip companies, are precipitating an expansion in production capacity amongst Greater Chinese and Asian chip firms in an attempt to plug a supply gap.

A report in today’s (28th January 2021) South China Morning Post places advanced chip production, and specifically 12 nm semiconductors, high on the list of priorities for Shanghai in 2021.

Techworks Asia will be highlighting the achievements of Asian women in tech, in forthcoming articles. The start of this series comes at a timely moment in history, as Kamala Harris becomes the first person not just of colour but of Asian ethnicity to take the office of Vice President of the United States of America. This first post takes a look at the formidably distinguished career of Lisa Su, President and CEO of AMD

They say that politics, and certainly that of the geo-political variety, weaves itself into every walk of life. Well, it seems that this is no more true than in the major announcement the other week of the possible US$40 billion acquisition of Arm by Nvidia. It probably doesn’t take a tech genius nor economics whizz to figure out how far-reaching the implications of this could potentially be.

On Tuesday June 23, China successfully launched the final satellite of the third generation Beidou Navigation Satellite System (BDS-3), completing global coverage of China’s own GPS-type navigation system, while marking China’s independence of the US-owned GPS.

As the Covid-19 pandemic continues to grip most countries of the world, some definite shoots of recovery are taking hold, not least in China.