Hi everyone, this is Lauly, waving hello from drizzly Tokyo, where I am on a short business trip.
It’s been a while since I last visited this vibrant city. That was in spring 2023, shortly after the lifting of Covid quarantine controls. We had a company team-building event that almost every overseas correspondent attended. We took a dinner cruise on a traditional boat in Tokyo Bay and later sang karaoke. Touching down in Haneda Airport yesterday reminded me how joyful it is to see colleagues that you work closely with despite living far away.
I am hosting this week’s #TechAsia from Tokyo just as our special visual project about extreme ultraviolet lithography machines, the world’s most complicated chipmaking equipment, goes online.