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Friday 24 July 2026

NAN GreenMet to invest US$130M in India's first integrated rare earth magnet plant

NAN GreenMet Pvt. Ltd. has launched NAN MagneTech Pvt. Ltd. to develop what it says will be India's first fully integrated manufacturing...

Friday 24 July 2026

India approves two electronics manufacturing clusters in Tamil Nadu

India's central government has approved two Electronics Manufacturing Clusters (EMCs) in Tamil Nadu, at Manallur and Pillapaikkam,...

Friday 24 July 2026

Realme exits China smartphone market, Oppo hands domestic focus to OnePlus

Realme has stopped producing smartphones for China and will launch no new models there, ending its domestic expansion as parent company...

Friday 24 July 2026

TEEMA advances Mexico science park plan as Sonora offers visa and policy support

The Taiwan Electrical and Electronic Manufacturers' Association (TEEMA) moved its event promoting investment in science parks forward on July 21 in Taipei, with Mexico's Sonora state...

Friday 24 July 2026

TEEMA unveils three-part plan for Mexico technology park to help small exporters expand

Taiwan Electrical and Electronic Manufacturers' Association (TEEMA) on July 21 held an investment briefing in Taiwan on its Mexico science park plan, bringing together representatives...

Thursday 23 July 2026

Wistron chairman says US manufacturing is unavoidable

Wistron has opened its D1 AI smart factory in Fort Worth, Texas, beginning volume production of Nvidia GB300 compute boards in the US for the first time. The move underscores the push...

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...

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

India joins private-launch club as low-Earth-orbit race widens beyond the US and China

India now has a homegrown, privately built ticket to orbit, and its arrival lands squarely in the middle of a low-Earth-orbit (LEO) contest that until recently was framed as a two-power...

Tuesday 21 July 2026

India's smartphone shipments fall as memory costs bite

India's smartphone market was hit by a sharp second-quarter decline that may matter well beyond the country's borders, as higher component...

Tuesday 21 July 2026

Seoul Semiconductor weighs India LED plant to tap ISM 2.0 incentives

South Korea's Seoul Semiconductor, one of the world's largest optoelectronics makers, is assessing plans to build a manufacturing plant in India and is in early talks with several...

Monday 20 July 2026

TSMC expansion strengthens Arizona's talent pull as advanced manufacturing shifts west

TSMC's ability to attract talent extends beyond Taiwan to the US, as its additional US$100 billion investment in Arizona for advanced manufacturing facilities is expected to further...

Monday 20 July 2026

Interview: AI's rise is pushing Singapore and ASEAN firms toward multicloud and security bets

As AI moves from experimentation to deployment, enterprises in Singapore and across ASEAN are shifting their focus from cloud adoption to multicloud integration, cybersecurity, and...

Monday 20 July 2026

Cloud competition in SEA shifts toward AI, sovereignty, and cost

Singapore's relatively neutral stance on cloud adoption is helping make performance, compliance, and value the main factors in global...

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