Samsung Electronics targets Chinese clients as TSMC distances itself from Huawei links Samsung Electronics aggressively seeks opportunities in the Chinese semiconductor market as TSMC reduces ties with Huawei-related firms.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co logged record quarterly profit on Thursday and said it expects robust revenue growth in the first three months of the year as demand surges for chips used in artificial intelligence processing.

Hong Kong schools are seeing a surge in flu outbreaks, health authorities have said, with the city’s forecaster issuing a cold weather warning as temperatures drop. Albert Au Ka-wing, head of the Centre for Health Protection Communicable Disease Branch, told a radio programme on Friday that the city had entered the flu season.

U.S.-listed shares of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. rose in premarket trading Thursday after the world's largest contract chip manufacturer posted better-than-expected fourth-quarter profit and a bullish outlook for artificial intelligence demand.

Shares are mixed in Asia after China reported that its economy grew at a 5% annual pace last year, hitting the government's target but slowing from the year before

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