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TSMC partners with Ansys, Synopsys and Cadence for silicon photonics program

Chipmaker TSMC is partnering with Ansys, Synopsys, and Cadence to develop its silicon photonics integration system capabilities. Engineering firms, Ansys and TSMC are collaborating on the chipmaker’s Compact Universal Photonic Engine (COUPE) silicon photonics integration system while chip des...

May 02, 2024

Taiwan

KYEC to exit china following semiconductor sanctions

King Yuan Electronics Co (KYEC), one of the world's largest testing and packaging services firms, has sold its entire 92.1 percent stake in its King Long Technology (KLT) subsidiary, a manufacturing hub in the Chinese city of Suzhou as the company sets out to leave China. KYEC cites issues ari...

May 02, 2024

China

Digital Core REIT acquires more shares in Osaka data center

Digital Core REIT has acquired an additional 10 percent share in a data center in Osaka, Japan via Digital Core REIT's subsidiary, Digital CR Singapore 4 Pte. Ltd., for JPY 7,725 million (~$51.5m), from Mitsubishi Corporation. The Osaka data center is a freehold facility with a 95 percent occu...

April 03, 2024

Japan

SK Telecom teams up with specialists for new AI liquid cooling Solution

Korean telco SK Telecom (SKT) is teaming up with liquid cooling specialist Iceotope and lubricant developer SK Enmove to design a new liquid cooling solution for AI data centers. The companies will collaborate to deploy precision liquid cooling (PLC) using SK Enmove’s thermal fluid at SKT’s A...

February 27, 2024

South Korea

Semi-conducor-related facilities in Japan suffer damage from 7.6 magnitude earthquake

Findings by analyst house TrendForece found that several semiconductor-related facilities in Japan have been affected by the 7.6 magnitude earthquake that hit the Ishikawa region on the first day of the year. Multilayer ceramic capacitor (MLCC) manufacturer Taiyo Yuden; silicon wafer producers...

January 05, 2024

Japan

TSMC chairman to retire next year

TSMC chairman Mark Liu will retire next year after holding the position since 2018, replacing the semiconductor manufacturer’s founder Morris Chang who retired the same year. Now, the board has recommended that the company’s current CEO and vice chairman, C.C. Wei replace Liu as chairman. On ...

December 29, 2023

Taiwan

Arm begins job cuts across China

British semiconductor and software company Arm has laid off more than 70 software engineers based in China due to a downturn in the country's sales of devices such as smartphones and personal computers. In 2022, the company announced that it would cut about 1000 jobs, about 15 percent of its o...

December 27, 2023

China

Graphcore discontinues China business, pulls out of the country

British chipmaker Graphcore has announced that it will pull out of China in the face of US export controls. The chipmaker is now letting go of most of its staff in China and discontinuing business there. This is another setback to the company, which is already struggling as it revealed in Octo...

November 24, 2023

China

Naver launches 270MW data center in Sejong, South Korea

South Korean technology firm Naver held an opening event for the first phase of its Sejong campus, its second major campus in Korea. This campus, currently spanning 290,000 square meters, is expected to reach 270MW of capacity at densities of 20kW and can reportedly hold 600,000 servers, runni...

November 09, 2023

South Korea

Korean Firm Solis-IDC plans Billion Dollar investment in India

South Korean firm Solis-IDC recently announced plans to construct a cutting-edge data center in India. Global Forum for Policy and Strategy (GFPS) will facilitate negotiations and representation on behalf of Solis in the Indian market as it looks to invest $2 billion in the country. The compan...

October 06, 2023

South Korea

South Korean Internet company Kakao completes DC construction

South Korean internet company Kakao has revealed that its first in-house data center, Kakao Data Center Ansan, is now completed and is ready for full-scale operation in the first quarter of 2024. The center partially opened in 2021 but officially completed construction on September 26, 2023. I...

October 03, 2023

South Korea

SK ecoplant plans new 120MW data center campus

SK ecoplant has shared plans for a new 120MW data center campus and landing station in Pohang, South Korea. This will reportedly be the first in Pohang City, and will see four data centers developed with a capacity of 30MW each, to be built by 2027.This comes following the signing of an invest...

September 11, 2023

SK ecoplant: Pohang

Government announces 1GW data center facility in South Korea

The government of South Korea is planning a 1GW data center campus in the country's southwestern region. The New Industry and Distributed Energy Division of the Ministry of Trade and Industry announced this week that up to 25 40MW data centers will be constructed in the Salaseido neighborhood ...

August 25, 2023

South Korea

Opening of AI data center by Changan Automobile and Baidu

The Chinese government-owned automaker Changan Automobile and the technology company Baidu have opened a data center dedicated to artificial intelligence (AI). Baidu's cloud service and the Baige heterogeneous AI computation platform power the facility. According to the corporations, the cente...

August 22, 2023

China

ESR secures Sustainability-Linked Loan (SLL) for Hong Kong data center development

ESR has secured a Sustainability-Linked Loan (SLL) to develop a data center in Hong Kong, it has announced. It has closed the first SLL in Hong Kong, worth HK$1.6 billion (US$205m), which will be used to convert a building in Kwai Chung into the 21.3MW ESR Kwai Chung Data Centre HK1.The compan...

August 03, 2023

Hong Kong

Mitsubishi teams up with FNT to boost data center sustainability

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and FNT Software have announced the signing of an MoU to construct sustainable data centres to support decarbonization efforts. Through the MoU, MHI’s analysis and energy management solutions will be integrated into FNT’s data center infrastructure management (DCIM)...

July 27, 2023

Japan

AirTrunk officially starts the TOK1 facility expansion in Tokyo, Japan

AirTrunk has begun work on an expansion of its Tokyo, Japan, TOK1 campus. Senior AirTrunker personnel and construction partners attended a traditional "jichinsai" Shinto launching ceremony to spiritually sanctify the land in preparation for safe and efficient construction. No timelines for com...

July 03, 2023

AirTrunk Tokyo TOK1

N-Ark's proposes floating cities with underwater Edge data centers

Japanese start-up N-Ark has unveiled designs for a floating city named ‘Dogen City,’ which, as the climate crisis worsens, looks to be a place of refuge for those who can afford to escape the effects of climate change. That said, the company also shared that it would also "accept and provide ...

June 22, 2023

Japan

SoftBank and NVIDIA Partner for AI Data Centers all through Japan

SoftBank Corp has partnered with the American multinational technology firm NVIDIA to set up a platform for dynamic artificial intelligence (AI) and 5G/6G products. It is built on the NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip, and SoftBank intends to deploy it in Japan's new distributed AI data cent...

May 31, 2023

Japan

Japan Seeks Subsidies for Hokkaido and Kyushu Data Centers

To encourage the development of data centers, which are essential to a digital society, in the Kyushu southwestern region and Hokkaido's most northern prefecture, Japan's industry ministry on Tuesday proposed offering subsidies.The ministry stated that Hokkaido and Kyushu are ideal locations f...

May 30, 2023

Japan

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