Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang spent last week in Tokyo meeting government officials, robotics makers and dozens of supply chain executives, as the company deepens its push into Japan's manufacturing and AI ecosystem, according to a blog post published on Nvidia's website and its official newsroom release.
China unveiled two major AI initiatives at the 2026 World AI Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai, highlighting efforts to standardize AI agent collaboration while laying the groundwork for space-based computing infrastructure.
TSMC recently posted strong earnings, helped in large part by Nvidia orders, but both companies are grappling with chips inside their own operations: TSMC says they are too expensive, while Nvidia says there are not enough to go around.
Alibaba's decision to rank its newest flagship directly against a single American system — describing Qwen3.8 Max as "second only to" Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 — underscores how narrowly China's leading AI labs now measure themselves against the US frontier, even as they release almost nothing to back it up.
Moonshot AI's latest model launch is rapidly reshaping perceptions of China's artificial intelligence (AI) industry, with overwhelming demand forcing the company to suspend new consumer subscriptions only days after introducing its flagship Kimi K3 model. The move has also intensified debate over whether Western AI companies can maintain their technological lead as Chinese developers narrow the performance gap while scaling commercial adoption.
Taiwan's heavy-electrical and electromechanical industry is entering a new growth phase as demand expands beyond its long-standing reliance on Taiwan Power (Taipower). While Taipower's grid modernization remains the sector's foundation, semiconductor investments, AI data center construction, and overseas infrastructure projects are creating multiple growth drivers. At the same time, project-based business models are making revenue recognition increasingly uneven despite record order backlogs.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has delivered a clear message ahead of his trip to Japan: the chipmaker's growth is still accelerating, even with quarterly revenue approaching US$100 billion.
As AI moves from experimentation to deployment, enterprises in Singapore and across ASEAN are shifting their focus from cloud adoption to multicloud integration, cybersecurity, and sovereign data control. Cloudmile chief commercial officer Jeremy Heng said the next phase of AI will be defined less by model hype than by the infrastructure needed to make systems secure, flexible, and commercially useful.
Singapore's relatively neutral stance on cloud adoption is helping make performance, compliance, and value the main factors in global companies' decision-making. As AI moves from pilot projects to production, businesses across ASEAN are rethinking which cloud, model, and location best fit each workload.
Huahsu, a semiconductor materials supplier established in 1997 through a joint investment by Japan's Asahi Kasei and Wah Lee, has launched a new capacity expansion plan as demand for AI, HPC, and advanced semiconductor packaging accelerates. The company recently held a completion ceremony for its second high-resolution dry film photoresist processing plant.
India is broadening its technology strategy from attracting chip factories to building semiconductor equipment, materials, AI capabilities, supply chains and trade partnerships as it seeks a larger role in global electronics.
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