Anjani Trivedi

ANJANI TRIVEDI IS A BLOOMBERG OPINION COLUMNIST COVERING INDUSTRIAL COMPANIES IN ASIA. PREVIOUSLY, SHE WAS A REPORTER FOR THE WALL STREET JOURNAL.

The complex cycle of the semiconductor market is getting trickier to predict.
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Chipmaking machines face a crunch of their own

A manufacturing line at a factory of SMC Corporation in Beijing. Sustaining the growth of manufacturing value-add will be an uphill task.

What more can Xi Jinping do for China Inc?

China has been a major destination for capital spending by the largest semiconductor equipment companies.

The US plan to block China on chips will backfire

A Toyota bZ4X electric sport utility vehicle (SUV) on display at the company's showroom in Toyota City, Aichi Prefecture, Japan, on Monday, June 13, 2022.  Photographer: Akio Kon/Bloomberg

The wheels have come off electric vehicles

Venture capital and private equity firms risk being left behind as governments and big companies bet on the physical infrastructure future.
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The industrial future is taking shape; VCs are missing out

It's time to redefine global financial centres on more subjective criteria than regulatory robustness or the size and depth of capital markets, the writer says.

Over New York, London and Hong Kong? Time to move on