When the United States and Japan square off these days, it’s rarely on a battlefield—unless you count the fluorescent trenches of a semiconductor plant or the algorithmic no-man’s-land of a trade negotiation. Still, the world watches, popcorn in one hand, antacid in the other. Because whenever Washington and Tokyo jostle, the tectonic plates of the…
Broadcom’s Surge: How a Silicon-Valley Chipmaker Became the World’s Quiet Loan Shark By Our Man in Singapore, who has watched empires rise on smaller margins than Broadcom’s licensing fees. HONG KONG—While diplomats bicker over tariffs and TikTok, the real global power play is happening inside a beige box in San Jose. Broadcom Inc., the company…
SEOUL—Somewhere between the DMZ and an overpriced craft-coffee bar in Gangnam, the United States and South Korea are still trying to convince the rest of the planet that their 70-year entanglement is merely “strategic,” not “codependent with nuclear accessories.” The alliance, born in the ashes of 1950 and held together ever since by a mixture…
CRDO: The Tiny Semiconductor Stock Quietly Holding the Global Economy Together—Until It Doesn’t By the time most citizens of Earth have finished their first cup of overpriced coffee, the share price of Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd (NASDAQ: CRDO) has already bounced around like a diplomatic cable in a shredder. Based in San Jose—Silicon Valley’s…
