Tim Culpan

Perhaps Pat Gelsinger knows something investors and traders don’t, because he’s decided that Tower Semiconductor Ltd. is worth more money than the Israeli company has been valued at any time in the past 17 years. At $5.4 billion, the Intel Corp. chief executive officer is paying over 35-times…

This week’s announcement that India’s Vedanta Group has tied up with Taiwan’s Foxconn Technology Group to make chips is being lauded as proof that New Delhi is gaining traction with its plans to build a semiconductor industry. That’s hardly the case. Those hopeful that India can establish a…

Novak Djokovic isn’t the only one missing from this year’s Australian Open in Melbourne. Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai is also absent from a tournament where she’s played at least 15 times since 2005. But it is event organizers who, perhaps unintentionally, have shone a light on a problem many…

It was early January and my friend in Melbourne had invited me over for coffee. But a surge in the omicron variant was driving Australia to a record number of daily cases, with hospitals overflowing. In that light, the unusual request made total sense: would I mind taking a rapid antigen test…

A year after Apple Inc. supplier Wistron Corp. faced an uprising in India, its larger rival Foxconn Technology Group is encountering a similar rebuke. This time, their key client is getting drawn into what ought to serve as a wake up call for Taiwanese manufacturers in the South Asian nation. …

It was a warm spring evening in Taipei and more than a hundred celebrities, founders, venture capitalists and tech executives gathered for cocktails and hors d’oeuvres. The headline event, a fireside chat, was just an excuse for Taiwan’s best-connected people to socialize, enjoying the kinds of…

Most people are familiar with the concept of a placebo, where merely providing positive information can improve perception of well-being. Yet the opposite also occurs, with negative data making people feel worse about their own health. That’s a nocebo — Latin for “I shall harm” as opposed to “I…

Last weekend some smart alecks managed to breach the defenses of one of the most ubiquitous media platforms, access the mouthpiece of the leader of one of the world’s most populous countries, and grab the opportunity to broadcast whatever they wanted to 73 million followers. And they used it to…

For the past decade, political, economic and cultural ties between China and Taiwan have withered under the strain of an increasingly assertive Beijing and a Taipei that refuses to bend under its will. Yet one part of the relationship has held together well: The pragmatic businesspeople on both…

Lobbyists for Samsung Electronics Co. deserve to drink magnums of the finest champagne after pulling off a fabulous deal. Taylor, Texas won the the right to host the South Korean giant’s latest semiconductor factory, Bloomberg News reported Tuesday. Locations in Phoenix and Upstate New York…