HSINCHU, Taiwan (Reuters) -Taiwanese contract chipmaker TSMC, a major supplier to Apple and Nvidia, on Thursday forecast an annual revenue growth of 10% in the global semiconductor industry, excluding memory chips. This is a new golden age of opportunity with AI, said senior vice-president Cliff Hou, who was speaking at an event in Hsinchu, where the company is headquartered. In...

BEIJING/TAIPEI (Reuters) - A furious China launched punishment drills around Taiwan on Thursday in what it said was a response to separatist acts, sending up heavily armed warplanes and staging mock attacks as state media denounced newly inaugurated President Lai Ching-te. The exercises, in the Taiwan Strait and around groups of Taiwan-controlled islands that sit next to the Chinese coast,...

HONG KONG (Reuters) -China's Lenovo Group reported a 9% rise in fourth-quarter revenue to $13.8 billion on Thursday, as the world's largest maker of personal computers (PCs) exits a demand slump following the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. Revenue for the January-March quarter beat an average estimate of $13 billion drawn from eight analysts, according to LSEG data. This marks...

May 23 (Reuters) - Taiwan's military mobilised its forces and said it was confident it could protect the island after China started two days of punishment drills around Taiwan on Thursday in what it said was a response to separatist acts. Here are some reactions to the military drills: WU XINBO, DIRECTOR OF THE CENTRE FOR AMERICAN STUDIES AT FUDAN...