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Wednesday 21 October 2026
Chinese nickel producers weigh coordinated HPAL cuts in Indonesia
Executives from Chinese nickel producers plan to meet as early as October 20 to seek coordinated production cuts at Indonesian processing plants as weaker prices and rising costs pressure...
Wednesday 21 October 2026
Starlink, FPT deploy satellite internet terminals on Vietnam islands
Vietnam has installed 10 Starlink satellite internet terminals on islands near Haiphong, highlighting how low Earth orbit networks are being used to extend connectivity beyond conventional...
Tuesday 20 October 2026
Global Tek's new Thailand plant enters trial production in 3Q26, targeting AI liquid cooling and aerospace opportunities
Global Tek Industrial held an opening ceremony on the 20th for its Super Smart Manufacturing Park in Chonburi, Thailand. Spanning 177,600 square meters, the facility is the group's...
Tuesday 20 October 2026
US firms eye Malaysia to diversify rare earth supply chains
More than a dozen US companies are exploring opportunities to develop Malaysia's rare earth industry, seeking alternatives to China-dominated supply chains as Washington pushes to...
Tuesday 20 October 2026
Malaysia says data center investors must fund transmission upgrades
Malaysia wants data center investors to bear the cost of transmission upgrades required by their projects, tying investment decisions more closely to local grid readiness. New applications...
Tuesday 20 October 2026
TiMotion targets robot market as Vietnam plant is set to open by year-end
Transmission systems integrator TiMotion Technology plans to begin trading on Taiwan's Emerging Stock Board on October 21 as it marks its 20th anniversary, with the company targeting...
Monday 19 October 2026
Anthropic opens Singapore office, signs AI cooperation agreement
Anthropic has opened its fifth Asia-Pacific office in Singapore and signed a memorandum of understanding with the city-state's digital ministry, broadening cooperation on AI safety,...
Monday 19 October 2026
Malaysia unveils six locally designed chips, but commercial adoption is the real test
Malaysia's push to move from assembling chips to owning the designs behind them has reached the point where it must find buyers. On October 16, the government unveiled six semiconductor...
Sunday 18 October 2026
Exclusive: EnterpriseSG positions Singapore's semiconductor SMEs for bigger roles in global chip supply chains
Singapore is targeting high-value semiconductor manufacturing, advanced packaging, and silicon photonics, building on its strengths in engineering, precision manufacturing, and reliability,...
Saturday 17 October 2026
Singapore's AI bet shifts from model race to deployment, resilience and trusted adoption
Singapore is moving its AI strategy beyond pilot-heavy experimentation toward a more deployment-focused model centered on enterprise adoption, sector transformation and resilient access...
Friday 16 October 2026
FICG eyes 4x optical communications capacity by 2027
FICG is aggressively expanding optical communications production in Malaysia and China to meet surging AI-driven demand, which the company estimates is 3-4x current supply capacity...
Friday 16 October 2026
DayOne doubles Johor data center financing to MYR30 billion as billings pass 1GW
Singapore-based data center developer DayOne has secured an additional MYR15 billion (US$3.67 billion) in financing from a consortium of seven banks to expand hyperscale data center...
Friday 16 October 2026
Samsung SDI targets 2027 LFP BBU battery production
Samsung SDI will begin mass-producing cylindrical lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries for AI servers as early as June 2027, marking the first adoption of cylindrical LFP backup...
Thursday 15 October 2026
Vietnam's FPT courts Toyota Tsusho unit to sell its power chips in Southeast Asia, India
Vietnamese technology group FPT is lining up a second Japanese distribution channel for its in-house power chips, a move that would carry Vietnamese-designed semiconductors beyond...
Thursday 15 October 2026
Auden expects stronger growth in 2027, sees satellite industry taking another 2–3 years to gain momentum
RF antenna and communications technology company Auden Techno recently inaugurated its global headquarters and R&D center in Bade, Taoyuan. Chairman Chang Yu-Pin said the company's...