While ‘COP26’ is on many countries’ and people’s minds, the ‘elephant in the room’ seems to be the possible non-participation (in person at least) of China in the forthcoming conference in Glasgow.

Amid a global semiconductor chip shortage, news of plans to invest in new chip plants appears welcome, and timely. So, who is investing, in what, and where?

In the latest in our ‘Asian Women in Tech’ spotlight series, we look at the considerable achievements of Lora Ho and Grace Wang, of TSMC and Luxshare Precision respectively.

Cutting-edge semiconductor microchips, artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, biomedicine, and ultrafast internet are among the areas been singled out for special focus as China lays out its 14^th Five-Year Plan.

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