The House Foreign Affairs Committee has advanced the MATCH Act in what lawmakers are calling the largest markup on semiconductor export controls in congressional history. DUV lithography restrictions held firm. Washington is now targeting the tools China cannot build, not just the chips it cannot buy. When Tech Wire Asia published about the MATCH Act ... Read more ›
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The AI readiness gap in SEA and across the region is less about ambition and more about the infrastructure debt enterprises have been quietly accumulating for years. New IDC research finds 90% of APAC organisations have experienced failed modernisation initiatives, with poor data quality sitting at the root of both delays and outright failures. Ask ... Read more ›
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Cisco Universal Quantum Switch connects different quantum systems. The switch routes quantum signals over telecom fibre without measuring them. Cisco has shown a working research prototype of a switching chip designed to connect different types of quantum computers and quantum sensors over a shared network. The company said the Cisco Universal Quantum Switch can route ... Read more ›
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Global smartphone market fell in Q1 2026 as a DRAM and NAND shortage squeezed supply and pushed prices beyond reach for many consumers The memory crunch is reshaping the global smartphone market rankings, with premium-focused brands pulling ahead while volume players absorb the heaviest losses The global smartphone market ended a 10-quarter growth streak in ... Read more ›
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Google Cloud introduced an AI agent platform and new TPUs at Next 2026. Google Cloud said 75% of customers use its AI, with new agent tools. Google Cloud announced new AI products and infrastructure at Google Cloud Next 2026, including tools for building and managing AI agents. The company introduced updates across its platform, data ... Read more ›
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Tesla plans to use Intel 14A chips for Terafab. Terafab targets large-scale AI chip production. Tesla plans to use Intel’s next-generation 14A manufacturing process to produce chips for its proposed Terafab facility in Austin, according to Reuters, citing comments by Elon Musk. The site is intended to serve as an advanced AI chip complex supporting ... Read more ›
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Meta uses tracking software to collect employee data for AI training. Is restructuring its workforce around AI. Meta Platforms has begun deploying internal tracking software on computers used by US-based employees, collecting data like mouse movements and keystrokes to train artificial intelligence models, according to internal memos seen by Reuters. The move forms part of ... Read more ›
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Tuned Global, the leading music cloud platform, has announced the introduction of a streaming Service Manipulation Detection (SMD) solution as a new, dedicated offering for rights holders and streaming service clients. The announcement comes at a time when streaming manipulation (the use of bots, click farms, scripted listening, or coordinated repeat plays to artificially inflate ... Read more ›
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Malaysia is deploying AI faster than it can secure it, and the numbers prove it. The country most bullish on agentic AI is also the least prepared to catch what goes wrong. The studies keep coming. McKinsey published one. Gartner flagged it. Stanford’s HAI Index mapped it globally. And now TrendAI, the enterprise AI security ... Read more ›
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Apple’s CEO transition marks the company’s first leadership change in 15 years John Ternus spent 25 years shaping Apple’s hardware from the inside. Now he’ll lead a company betting on India and Vietnam to redefine how it builds When Steve Jobs handed the CEO role to Tim Cook in August 2011, the consensus in Silicon ... Read more ›
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Memory shortage to persist through 2027 as supply lags demand. AI demand and limited capacity keep memory prices high and shipments weak. Rising memory costs are expected to persist through at least 2027, as supply continues to lag demand, according to Nikkei Asia. Leading US and South Korean suppliers are increasing DRAM output at a ... Read more ›
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xAI is preparing to supply GPU infrastructure to Cursor for AI model training. The training will use tens of thousands of GPUs from xAI’s system. Access to large-scale computing infrastructure is becoming more central to AI development, as companies allocate GPU capacity beyond internal use and into external model training. Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, ... Read more ›
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Meta extends Broadcom AI chip deal to 2029. May reduce reliance on Nvidia, increase control over AI infrastructure. Large tech firms are designing their own hardware as spending on AI infrastructure increases. Hyperscaler spending on AI infrastructure is expected to increase in 2026, with some estimates placing total investment between $635 billion and $665 billion. ... Read more ›
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Amazon Leo’s US$11.6B acquisition of Globalstar brings direct-to-device satellite connectivity to a market that Starlink has been building in largely unopposed The deal arms Amazon with the spectrum and infrastructure to challenge SpaceX across Southeast Asia’s most underserved connectivity corridors Satellite internet in Southeast Asia has, until recently, been a one-horse race. Starlink arrived first, ... Read more ›
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Author: Gayan Koralage, director Malaysia business and director group strategy at Edotco Group The global economy today is valued at approximately US$100 trillion. The figure, however, is not confined to land alone. Economic value is layered in physical surfaces, skies, oceans and now space. Over the past three centuries, global growth has unfolded in four ... Read more ›
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Malaysia’s MyDigital ID is becoming part of the country’s public infrastructure. The national authentication platform gives users a single credential for access to several services, mainly in government and, in some cases, on private platforms. The aim to make digital transactions easier, tighten security, and reduce credential duplication in multiple agencies. Assessing and Optimising MyDigital ... Read more ›
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Southeast Asia leads the world in AI optimism, but its governance frameworks haven’t caught up. Malaysia posted the largest AI optimism increase of any country surveyed. The region’s responsible AI maturity hasn’t kept pace. Southeast Asia trusts AI more than anywhere else in the world. Stanford University’s 2026 AI Index Report, published this week, documents ... Read more ›
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Most businesses asking for a chatbot are actually asking for something else entirely. The trouble is, they do not know it yet. The AI conversation in most boardrooms and project briefs right now starts and ends with chatbots. A business identifies a problem, someone proposes an AI solution, and in a few meetings the discussion ... Read more ›
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Physical AI is Japan’s sovereign bet, with SoftBank, NEC, Honda, and Sony building a trillion-parameter model. Japanese government pledges ¥1 trillion, steelmakers and banks hold stakes. Japan has stopped waiting for Silicon Valley to solve its industrial problems. On April 12, SoftBank, NEC, Honda, and Sony jointly established a company called Japan AI Foundation Model ... Read more ›
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The gap between India’s deployment of agentic AI and the rest of the region is wider than headlines suggest. Global report finds India ahead, Australia and Japan are still finding their footing. A new global survey of 1,879 IT leaders captures how unevenly agentic AI adoption is moving in Asia. The OutSystems 2026 State of ... Read more ›
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