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Sapeon Korea and Rebellions to merge operations

Two Korean AI chip startups with wealthy backers have decided to merge on an equity value ratio of 1:2.4, respectively. The new company will retain the name Rebellions, and be run by Rebellions’ CEO Park Sung-hyun. Sapeon counts SKT, SK Square, and SK Hynix as investors. The company launched ...

August 19, 2024

South Korea

PDG acquires new data center in Singapore

Princeton Digital Group this week announced the acquisition of Yahoo’s Singapore data center, SG3 which offers 5MW across 5,400 sqm (58,125 sq ft). Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Yahoo will continue to host its infrastructure at the facility. Rangu Salgame, chairman, CEO and co-fo...

August 14, 2024

Singapore

Telekom Malaysia to deploy Private 5G network at Petronas

Telekom Malaysia (TM) has deployed a Private 5G network for oil and gas company Petronas at its LNG Complex in Bintulu, Sarawak. According to TM, this location is one of four Petronas sites installed with a Private 5G network. TM deployed the network along with the Digital Nasional Berhad (...

August 14, 2024

Malaysia

Telkomsel deploys base stations to support 4G and 5G mobile services in Indonesia

Indonesian telco Telkomsel has deployed 49 base stations to support 4G and 5G mobile services in the country's new capital city, Nusantara which is set to open on August 17, located on the island of Borneo, 800 miles away from the current capital Jakarta on the island of Java. "By ensuring th...

August 09, 2024

Indonesia

Japanese scientists develop new EUV lithography technology

Professor Tsumoru Shintake of the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) has proposed an extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography technology that is supposedly superior to the method currently used in semiconductor manufacturing. The proposed method uses smaller EUV light sources, whi...

August 07, 2024

Japan

Centuria to acquire 50% stake in ResetData

Australasian real estate fund manager Centuria Capital Group has announced that it has gotten into an agreement to acquire a 50 percent stake in cloud data center provider ResetData for up to $21 million as it plans to expand the group’s revenue stream into a new business line that aims to pro...

August 06, 2024

Australia

Atturra expands sovereign cloud in NextDC Sydney data center

Australian advisory and IT solutions provider Atturra is expanding its sovereign cloud capacity with a new deployment in NextDC's S3 data center in Sydney, helping the company to meet growing demand from clients for cloud computing and storage capacity. The solutions provider will commence it...

August 05, 2024

Sydney

Transworld Associates to land 2Africa cable in Karachi, Pakistan

Transworld Associates (TWA) has announced it will land the 2Africa cable in Karachi, Pakistan, the world’s largest subsea cable network, and will connect 33 countries with 46 landing points in Europe and Asia. Eight partners including China Mobile International, Baobab, center3, Meta, Orange, ...

July 31, 2024

Pakistan

AirTrunk launches Johor data center in Malaysia

APAC data center firm AirTrunk has launched its first campus in Johor, Malaysia and has officially commenced operations at the JHB1 data center . The facility features the company’s first deployment of direct-to-chip liquid cooling technology alongside traditional indirect evaporative cooling ...

July 31, 2024

Malaysia

Team IM to launch sovereign cloud for New Zealand

Kiwi information management services provider Team IM has deployed Oracle Alloy in its data centers and is set to launch a sovereign cloud for New Zealand which it claims will be New Zealand's first sovereign hyperscale cloud. Ian Rogers, CEO of Team IM. said: “Many companies have promised to...

July 28, 2024

New Zealand

Quantinuum signs MoU in Singapore for city-state’s quantum sector

Quantinuum has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with several Singaporean institutions to provide the city-state with access to it's H-Series and Helios quantum computers and collaborate on quantum computing use cases. Other signatories of the MoU include Singapore’s National Quantum Offic...

July 25, 2024

Singapore

AMD president Victor Peng announces retirement

AMD president Victor Peng has announced plans to retire on August 30. Till his retirement date, Peng will continue to serve on the AMD executive team and take on an advisory role to support the leadership transition.AMD chair and CEO Dr. Lisa Su said: “Victor re-joined AMD in 2022 following t...

July 24, 2024

Taiwan

Datagrid buys another six hectares for data center expansion in New Zealand

New Zealand data center firm Datagrid has purchased another six hectares of land for expansion on its campus on New Zealand’s South Island. The New Zealand Overseas Investment Office has approved the land acquisition and will allow the project to reach a total area of 49 hectares.Perrine Dhall...

July 23, 2024

New Zealand

Vnet founder withdraws acquisition offer

Josh Sheng Chen, co-chairperson and CEO of Chinese data center firm Vnet (formerly 21Vianet) has withdrawn his offer to acquire all outstanding shares of the company which he made in September 2022. Josh Sheng Chen said: “I withdrew my privatization proposal as I believe that maintaining Vne...

July 20, 2024

China

Telin and BW Digital team up on Batam-Singapore subsea cable

Telin and BW Digital have formed a strategic partnership to develop and construct the Nongsa-Changi submarine cable system linking Indonesia's Batam and Singapore. Both companies signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for the joint venture during the recent International Telecoms Week 202...

July 18, 2024

Batam

PAG and Ayala JV secure $41.1m loan for data center buildout in the Philippines

A-Flow Properties I Corp. (A-Flow), a joint venture between Ayala Land, Inc. and PAG’s Flow Digital Infrastructure has secured P2.4 billion ($41.1m) loan agreement to fund the development of a data center outside Manila, the Philippines. This loan is to be used for the initial phase of the ...

July 18, 2024

Philippines

SK Telecom to invest in HPC business Smart Global Holdings

Korean telco SK Telecom has revealed that it will be investing $200 million in AI and high-performance computing infrastructure business Smart Global Holdings. The Korean telco will be taking an equity stake in exchange for the cash, and the companies plan to work together to “leverage their ...

July 18, 2024

South Korea

Japan's SoftBank acquires British AI chip designer Graphcore

Japan's SoftBank Group Corp has acquired British chip designer Graphcore, which will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of SoftBank, but will continue to operate under the Graphcore name.“This is a tremendous endorsement of our team and their ability to build truly transformative AI technologies...

July 12, 2024

Japan

Tape Ark to migrate West Australian Ballet archives to the cloud

Tape Ark which specializes in mass migration of data stored on tape to the cloud has been awarded a three-year deal to be the Ballet's 'Historical Digital Preservation Partner.' In preparation for the West Australian Ballet's 75th anniversary which will fall in 2027, Tape Ark is set to migrate...

July 12, 2024

Australia

MCC complete the removal of banned Chinese equipment

Mediacom Communications Corporation (MCC) has said that it's on course to complete the removal of banned Chinese equipment from its network this month by its July 15 deadline."To date, 100 percent of the program has been completed across the areas of removal and replacement, and 99 percent of ...

July 10, 2024

China

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