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.

Powertech Technology is deepening its panel-level packaging (FOPLP) strategy after its board approved a joint venture with Broadcom in Singapore to build panel-level advanced packaging (PLP) manufacturing capacity, with the planned investment totaling US$400 million.

Vietnam has opened direct access to green electricity for companies, easing a major obstacle for Foxconn and its suppliers as global electronics makers shift production away from China. The change could help global supply chains expand in Vietnam while also increasing pressure on the country's power system, renewable capacity, and environmental management.

Alan Wei Zhaolun, an executive at Aperia Group, pleaded not guilty in a fraud case alleging that he and three others illegally misrepresented themselves to obtain servers containing Nvidia chips before rerouting them to China. He has been accused by Singaporean prosecutors of money laundering and other charges, as Singapore emerges as a hub for illicit AI chip flows to China.