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Wednesday 29 July 2026
Inventec plans NT$18.128 billion capacity expansion in Taiwan, Thailand, Texas
Inventec said it would expand manufacturing capacity in Taiwan, Thailand, and the US with total spending of NT$18.128 billion. The ODM maker outlined new plants, facility upgrades,...
Wednesday 29 July 2026
Quanta buys AUO Taoyuan factory for NT$19.7B to expand AI server capacity
Quanta has agreed to buy AUO's Taoyuan factory in Guishan Hwa Ya Park for NT$19.7 billion, moving to add server production capacity as its Taiwan lines run at full utilization. The...
Wednesday 29 July 2026
Thailand drops land bridge plan after review flags weak returns and environmental risks

Thailand has canceled its proposed Land Bridge Project after a government review concluded that the cross-country route would generate...

Monday 27 July 2026
Weekly news roundup: Samsung and SK Hynix favor DDR5, Intel accelerates 18A, Alibaba deepens CXMT ties
AI infrastructure, memory and advanced chipmaking led this week's tech agenda, with Intel, Samsung, SK Hynix, CXMT, Alibaba and Foxconn reshaping capacity and supply chains. Below...
Sunday 26 July 2026
Lynas says Malaysia heavy rare earth project has gone over budget
Lynas Rare Earths said its heavy rare earth expansion in Malaysia has gone over budget as the Australia-based miner works to build out a non-China supply chain. The disclosure came...
Thursday 23 July 2026
Foxconn's Vietnam arm moves into EV charging equipment
Fulian Precision Technology Component, a Vietnamese subsidiary of Taiwan's Foxconn Industrial Internet (FII), has added electric-vehicle charging equipment to its registered business...
Thursday 23 July 2026
ASEAN AI data center power demand seen at 6-7GW
ASEAN countries have become a battleground for global cloud service providers and infrastructure developers. After visiting the Johor-Singapore Special Economic Zone (JS-SEZ) in mid-2025,...
Wednesday 22 July 2026
Commentary: Gulf state's Sovereign Wealth Fund pours into ASEAN, eyeing stake in AI infrastructure supply chains

ASEAN's AI boom is taking on a dual role as both a "no-man's land" and an international hub from Singapore's perspective, while investors...

Wednesday 22 July 2026
AI infrastructure spending is reshaping Southeast Asia's PCB supply chain

Rising investment in AI servers, high-speed networking, and satellite communications is accelerating a shift in Southeast Asia's electronics...

Tuesday 21 July 2026
Middlemen emerge as ASEAN's No. 2 AI compute buyers
In the AI computing race, Nvidia AI server chips remain red-hot, even as the US-China trade confrontation shows no sign of easing. Although Shopee and YTL Group are among the biggest...
Tuesday 21 July 2026
How AI boom spurs Taiwan's PCB makers to rethink their Southeast Asia playbook

Amid the global boom in AI infrastructure investment, Southeast Asia is evolving from an electronics-component manufacturing base into...

Tuesday 21 July 2026
From Beijing to Singapore—how Beyondsoft is betting on agentic and physical AI in Southeast Asia

Agentic AI is likely to reach commercial use sooner than physical AI, according to Beyondsoft, as the IT services provider deepens...

Tuesday 21 July 2026
Alibaba and Huawei muscle into Singapore's AI market: SEA-LION swaps Llama for Qwen

Singapore is Southeast Asia's AI frontrunner. It has also become a proving ground for competing Eastern and Western AI business models...

Tuesday 21 July 2026
VSMC warns AI-ready MES is becoming essential for wafer fabs, with China accelerating adoption

TSMC's sustained capital spending highlights the two foundations of its competitive strength: technology leadership and manufacturing excellence...

Monday 20 July 2026
Exclusive Interview: Inside VSMC's Singapore fab, where silicon interposers and power chips underpin AI growth

TSMC raised its 2026 capital expenditure forecast to US$60–64 billion during its second-quarter earnings conference, with a substantial...