Xiaomi's phones cost more this year because memory got expensive. CXMT's Shanghai listing happened because memory got scarce. Both of those stories trace back to the same overtaxed choke point: the machines that print circuits onto silicon, nearly all of which come from one Dutch company. So when reports surfaced this month describing China as having started mass-producing its own version of those machines, the story deserved more than a headline's worth of attention, because two separate developments are being described as one, and the gap between them is where the real story sits.What actually got tested, and by whomAbout The AuthorAt heart, I am a storyteller drawn to the watershed moments that bend the technology landscape. I braid narrative with data, humanise statistics, and trace the arc from first spark to world-changing impact. My reportage, features and reviews are witty, sardonic, visual and vivid, using anecdote to illuminate rather than eviscerate.
As a technology journalist with over sixteen years of experience, I have travelled the world and the seven seas, covered every major tech conference worth its lanyard, chronicled the defining breakthroughs of the last decade and a half, and played a pivotal role in launching some of India’s most important technology publishing platforms across web, print and TV.
