From left: Datuk Mat Hassan Esa, director of Sacofa; Datuk Sri Sulaiman Abdul Rahman B Abdul Taib, managing director; Datuk Sri Haji Julaihi Haji Narawi, Minister of Utility and Telecommunication Sarawak and chairman of Sacofa; Datuk Liwan Lagang, Deputy Minister for Utility and Telecommunication (Telecommunication); Wong Heang Tuck, CEO of U Mobile; and Woon Ooi Yuen, chief technology officer U Mobile has appointed Sacofa Sdn Bhd, the leading telecommunications infrastructur

Malaysia and the Netherlands have signed a cooperation agreement to strengthen ties in the semiconductor industry, aiming to reinforce Malaysia’s role as a global chip hub and the Netherlands’ position in advanced manufacturing and innovation. The Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC) was signed in The Hague by Investment, Trade and Industry Minister Tengku Datuk Seri Zafrul Aziz and Dutch Economic Affairs Minister Vincent Karremans. This agreement builds on an initiative first pro

FILE PHOTO: A Samsung Electronics logo and a computer motherboard appear in this illustration taken August 25, 2025. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo Samsung Electronics said on Friday it is in "close discussion" to supply its next-generation high-bandwidth memory (HBM) chips, or HBM4, to Nvidia, as the South Korean chipmaker scrambles to catch up with rivals in the AI chip race. Samsung, which plans to market the new chip next year, did not specify when it aims to

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung delivers a speech at the National Assembly in Seoul on Nov 4, 2025. (Photo: AFP/Chung Sung-Jun) South Korea will triple spending on artificial intelligence and make its biggest defence budget increase in six years, President Lee Jae Myung said on Tuesday (Nov 4) in his annual parliamentary budget speech. Lee said 10.1 trillion won (US$7 billion) would go towards "a major transformation aimed at propelling South Korea into the ranks of the

FILE PHOTO: OpenAI logo is seen in this illustration taken May 20, 2024. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo OpenAI has partnered with Broadcom to produce its first in-house artificial intelligence processors, the latest chip tie-up for the ChatGPT maker as it races to secure the computing power needed to meet surging demand for its services. Shares of Broadcom rose more than 10 per cent. The companies said on Monday that OpenAI would design the chips, which Broadcom w

Malaysia Investment, Trade and Industry Minister Tengku Zafrul Abdul Aziz announces fast-track licences for manufacturing projects and a bigger kitty for government co-investment that can be tapped by Malaysian SMEs. Singapore's Deputy Prime Minister Gan Kim Yong speaking at the Johor-Singapore Special Economic Zone (JS-SEZ) joint investment forum at Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention Centre on Oct 14, 2025. (Photo: CNA/Lim Li Ting) New measures are being rolled out in the 

Guangzhou Industrial Technology will return to Area B of the China Import and Export Fair Complex from 4 – 6 March 2026. A key annual event for South China's manufacturing sector, the fair's 2026 edition will expand its robotics coverage, showcasing the full value chain from components and advanced technologies to system integration. Situated in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (Greater Bay Area), one of China’s leading production hubs, the event connects techno

Vietnam’s economic growth accelerated at the fastest pace in three years in the third quarter, with manufacturing and business activity cushioning the economy against higher tariffs that took effect early August. Gross domestic product rose 8.23% in the July-September period from a year earlier, according to data from the National Statistics Office in Hanoi on Monday. That’s faster than the 7.15% median estimate of analysts surveyed by Bloomberg. Second-quarter growth was rev

FILE PHOTO: A Foxconn electric two-wheeler powertrain system is displayed at Foxconn’s annual tech day in Taipei, Taiwan October 8, 2024. REUTERS/Ann Wang/File Photo Taiwan’s Foxconn said its board of directors has approved an investment plan to procure equipment for a AI compute cluster and a supercomputing centre, that will allow it to spend up to NT$42 billion ($1.37 billion). The investment will be made from December 2025 to December 2026 using its own funds, the company

With just one week remaining, the countdown is on for Asia Photonics Expo 2026 (APE 2026), the continent's premier event dedicated to driving innovation at the critical intersection of photonics and semiconductors. The highly anticipated event will take place from 4-6 February 2026 at the Sands Expo and Convention Centre, Singapore . Under the theme “ Driving Innovation Where Photonics Meets Semiconductors ,” APE 2026 will showcase leading technologies across optical communic