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CPP partners with Pacific AMC for South Korea data center

Pension fund Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments) this week announced a KRW 1 trillion (US$711 million) joint venture with Pacific Asset Management Company (Pacific AMC) to develop carrier-neutral hyperscale data centers in South Korea.“The demand for data centers in Asia Pac...

November 23, 2024

South Korea

Rakuten to deploy Ampere Arm CPUs across data centers

Japan's Rakuten Group is set to deploy Ampere hardware across its data centers. The company is expanding its partnership with Ampere Computing to reduce the power consumption of artificial intelligence (AI) computing.Hironori Yoshida, executive officer and vice director of the cloud platform s...

November 23, 2024

Japan

Alibaba Cloud revenue up 7% for the quarter

China's Alibaba Group saw its cloud computing business revenue grow by seven percent during Q3 2024. According to Alibaba CFO Toby Xu, AI-related product revenue has achieved triple-digit year-over-year (YoY) growth for the fifth consecutive quarter, which "triggers" more demand for the compan...

November 18, 2024

China

Goodman completes Hong Kong data center

Real estate firm Goodman this week said it has completed the third building at its Goodman Tsuen Wan West data center campus and handed over the 50MW facility to Chinese operator GDS.Goodman’s head of Asia, Paul McGarry, said: “This is the latest data center completion at the brand new 225MW G...

October 04, 2024

Hong Kong

Ricoh migrates on-premise workloads to the cloud

Ricoh, a Japanese company specializing in imaging and electronics, has moved its on-premise workloads to the cloud as a part of the company's GLIDER data infrastructure project which aims to consolidate data from sales, inventory, and operations from more than 50 separate companies that make u...

September 18, 2024

Japan

Empyrion Digital to expand into Japan

APAC data center firm Empyrion Digital this week announced it has signed a binding agreement with “one of Japan’s largest diversified financial services groups” to develop a 25MW AI-ready data center in Tokyo. Mark Fong, CEO of Empyrion Digital described the news as a "significant milestone...

September 05, 2024

Japan

Zettabyte proposes new AI data center in Taiwan

Zettabyte, which describes itself as “Asia's leading AI data center software and systems technology provider" has announced a strategic partnership with Wistron Corporation, a technology service provider, to build Taiwan's first hyperscale AI data center. Kenneth Chung-Hou Tai, chairman of Ze...

September 01, 2024

Taiwan

ESR completes construction work of its data center in Osaka, Japan

ESR, an APAC real estate firm this week announced that it has successfully completed the core and shell of its Cosmosquare OS1 data center project in Nanko Kita. The facility will be ready for service in May 2025 and once fitted out, it will provide 25MW of capacity. At full build-out, the $2...

August 31, 2024

Japan

Singtel and Hitachi partner on new AI data centers in Japan

Singaporean telco Singtel and Japanese giant Hitachi have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate on “next-generation data centers and GPU cloud” in Japan and potentially the wider Asia Pacific region under the lead of Singtel's Digital InfraCo unit. Bill Chang, CEO of Sing...

August 28, 2024

Japan

Toyo Tire selects HPE for HPC via GreenLake cloud offering

Japanese tire company Toyo Tire Corporation has selected Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) to deliver a high-performance computing (HPC) system via its GreenLake cloud offering. It will be providing its seventh-generation HPC system, which is three times more powerful than its predecessor, as ...

August 27, 2024

Japan

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hitachi Construction Machinery migrates large scale systems to Oracle

Japan's Hitachi Construction Machinery Co. Ltd. is migrating its large-scale systems for accounting, development, production, design, sales, parts, export, human resources, and services to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure from on-premise.“OCI is the only public cloud that can securely migrate missi...

July 04, 2024

Japan

Rakuten launches mobile services using 700 MHz band

Japan's Rakuten Mobile has confirmed the launch of commercial services via the 700 MHz spectrum called the “platinum band” which was allocated by the country's Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications.In a recent announcement, the company noted that it has rolled out commercial services...

July 01, 2024

Japan

Actis unveils Asia-focused data center firm Epoch Digital

Investment firm Actis this week announced the launch of Epoch Digital, with a current portfolio under development offering 200MW of IT capacity across three identified projects and more in the pipeline.CEO Chng said: “The emergence of generative AI is transforming industries at an unprecedente...

June 21, 2024

Taiwan

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