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Nikkei Asia is an English-language news outlet covering business, economics, and technology across Asia, published by Japan's Nikkei group.
Apple has cut its October component orders for the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max to at least 15% below its original requests, Nikkei Asia reported. Memory-chip costs are the backdrop Fortune cites, but nothing in the report measures how much of the shortfall comes from price.
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Apple has asked suppliers to cut October component orders for the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max by about 15%, according to a Nikkei Asia report. Nikkei blames soaring memory costs and price rises but also points to a changed launch calendar, and device teams need to know which of the two they are planning around.
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China's July rule taxes wealthy Chinese 20% at each stage of an offshore-trust transaction, in Hong Kong as well as Singapore. So Hong Kong's family office gains look tied to Singapore's stricter vetting and year-plus approval queue.
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Western Digital and Seagate each fell 10.2% after Nikkei Asia reported Toshiba will spend $400 million to double its AI hard-drive capacity in fiscal 2027. The bull case now turns on timing, because Toshiba's extra drives reach the price talks only when hyperscalers negotiate 2028 terms.
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About $1.2 trillion of data-center leases that have not begun and $1.9 trillion of chip and equipment purchase agreements sit in the footnotes of nine tech firms whose capex over the past year was around $600 billion.
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Nikkei says the Japanese insurer expects spreads above 2% on US project-finance lending that includes data-center construction. The 2 trillion yen is announced capacity across all infrastructure, with no developer named.
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Toyota planned its year on 160 yen to the dollar while the market pays about 153, and at 50 billion yen of operating profit for every yen that gap is worth 300 billion to 350 billion. Daiwa's arithmetic puts the index-wide cost nearer 1.4%.
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Nikkei Asia says the Pixel 11 was developed and built entirely in Vietnam. That build is now the standard Google's watch and earbud lines have to meet by 2027.
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