Singapore maintained its position as the world's fourth-ranked financial center in the 2025 Global Financial Centres Index (GFCI), reflecting a strategy centered on capital security, rule of law stability, and long-term industrial positioning.
The semiconductor industry is shifting at 2nm from transistor scaling to chiplet-based architectures and advanced packaging. Performance gains are increasingly driven by heterogeneous integration rather than monolithic shrink, reshaping how power, performance, area, and cost are optimized.
Japan's Murata Manufacturing Co., the world's largest supplier of multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs), is weighing price increases for high-end MLCCs used in AI servers as demand outpaces supply.
Invest International will provide Nexperia with a US$60 million loan to expand chip production and upgrade manufacturing lines across its global facilities, the Dutch state-backed lender said on February 16.
