China's ByteDance gets access to top Nvidia AI chips, WSJ reportsByteDance is working with Southeast Asian firm Aolani Cloud to deploy about 500 Nvidia Blackwell computing systems in Malaysia, totalling...
13 Mar, 2026, 08.13 PM IST
India emerging as prime destination for data centre projects, chip manufacturing: ReportMoody’s Analytics reports that AI investments are surging globally, with India, Singapore, and Malaysia emerging as top destinations for da...
18 Jun, 2025, 04.25 PM IST
Chinese AI developers fly hard drives abroad to sidestep US chip curbs: WSJ reportSuch moves challenge the limits of US export controls. The layers of intermediaries between US tech and their Chinese users make it difficu...
17 Jun, 2025, 07.43 PM IST
A tech hub's plan to upgrade for the AI age runs into Trump's tariffsAmerican companies have been manufacturing in Malaysia for decades. This has made Malaysia a key player in global tech. Now, Trump's tariff...
22 May, 2025, 10.01 AM IST
Malaysia's Silicon Valley ambitions face tough challengesMalaysia Semiconductor Industry Association president Wong Siew Hai also said there was a "shortage of those suitable for the specific expe...
20 Mar, 2025, 09.09 AM IST
Malaysia signs deal with Arm to bolster chip ambitionsThe agreement will see Softbank-owned Arm provide chip designs and other technology, helping Malaysia to move into more value-added product...
05 Mar, 2025, 03.43 PM IST
Singapore probes final destination of possible Nvidia chip serversK. Shanmugam, who is also the law minister, said the route of the chips emerged in the course of an investigation of three men charged last...
03 Mar, 2025, 02.52 PM IST
Chipmakers searching for 'China Plus 1' are finding MalaysiaMalaysia has been riding the tech wave since the 1970s when it energetically courted some of the world's electrical and electronic supersta...
13 Mar, 2024, 11.30 AM IST
Chinese firms look to Malaysia for assembly of high-end chipsThe companies are asking Malaysian chip packaging firms to assemble a type of chip known as graphics processing units (GPUs). Further, the ...
18 Dec, 2023, 06.52 AM IST
Intel weighs boost to investment in Vietnam chip packaging plantThe possible move, which one source said could be worth about $1 billion, would signal a growing role for Vietnam in the global supply chai...
10 Feb, 2023, 05.31 PM IST
Now, who can chip in here?US: Test equipment firms design and make equipment used by outsourced semiconductor assembly and test (OSAT) firms to test semiconductor ch...
31 Oct, 2022, 10.59 PM IST
Intel to invest $7 billion in new plant in Malaysia, creating 9,000 jobsIntel will invest more than $7 billion to build a new chip-packaging and testing factory in Malaysia, CEO Pat Gelsinger says, expanding pro...
16 Dec, 2021, 08.40 AM IST
Intel to invest $7 billion in chip packaging facility in MalaysiaIntel intends to invest 30 billion ringgit on shoring up its advanced chip packaging capabilities in the island state of Penang, at a time ...
14 Dec, 2021, 08.39 AM IST
Maruti clocks best one-day jump in 19 months; analysts see more upsideShares of Maruti Suzuki jumped 8% on Tuesday, the best single-day jump in 19 months, to ₹8,049.65 on optimism that the chip shortages, whic...
17 Nov, 2021, 06.07 AM IST
Taiwan says resolving chip shortages needs Malaysia's helpMalaysia is home to suppliers and factories serving semiconductor makers such as Europe's STMicroelectronics and Infineon, as well as major...
01 Oct, 2021, 08.39 AM IST
Until 2023? Parts shortage will keep auto prices sky-highA surge in COVID-19 cases from the delta variant in several Asian countries that are the main producers of auto-grade chips is worsening th...
05 Sep, 2021, 07.18 PM IST
Chip crisis threatens to cut auto output by 7.1 million carsLow vaccination rates and rising infection rates in Southeast Asia are prompting shutdowns of plants assembling all types of semiconductors.
20 Aug, 2021, 09.17 AM IST