South Korean technology news headlines in September captured items in tech including: Korea-Taiwan plans for a UAE semiconductor plant; Singapore-Korean telecoms companies partnering for GPU-as-a-service; small solid-state batteries breakthrough from Korea for wearable devices; a look at South Korea’s Web3 technologies market; and more.
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Cushman & Wakefield: Asia Pacific Data Center Market H1 2024
- An intro to the 12 South Korean SaaS firms selected for Dubai’s Expand North Star event, and opportunities in the UAE cloud computing space / full item
- South Korea: Samsung Electro-Mechanics unveils world’s first ultra-small all-solid-state battery for wearable devices, targeting 2026 production / full item
- South Korea: Government announces Startup Korea Fund formation with a total capital pool of $629M, attracting more private investment than expected / full item
- South Korea’s Hanwha Aerospace and Australia’s Gilmour Space ink MOU for collaboration in space launch and satellite imagery / full item
- A brief intro to the 8 South Korean tech startups selected for the Super Gap Startup 1000+ Project’s UAE visit to explore opportunities in the United Arab Emirates / full item
- South Korea: Samsung enters mass-production of semiconductor industry’s first 1Tb V-NAND flash memory for SSDs serving ultra-high-capacity servers / full item
HSBC: Asset Tokenization in the Quantum Age
- South Korean: An overview of HAII Corporation’s Alzguard-T service, focusing on prevention of dementia using brain training across 6 key cognitive domains / full item
- South Korea: Government-affiliated food agency director charged with creating and running a 12-GPU cryptocurrency mining server in his workplace / full item
- South Korea: FaindersAI retail-tech firm unveils 15- square-meter pre-assembled, autonomous and cashierless MicroStore, installable within 1 week / full item
- South Korea’s SK Hynix announces high-bandwidth memory and enterprise SSD milestones at Semicon Taiwan, in part set to enhance data transfer and efficiency in AI uses / full item
GITEX Asia Tech Conference & Expo: April 2025 in Singapore
- Korea Web3 Market Guide is available to download, a pre-event overview prepared for the recent Korea Blockchain Week 2024 conference / full item
- South Korea: Ministry of SMEs & Startups sets ambitious $11.5 billion 2025 budget plan, an increase of $31.6 million on 2024 / full item
- Taiwan’s TSMC and Korea’s Samsung Electronics reportedly discussed plans for semiconductor plant in the UAE, potentially rivaling TSMC’s world’s-largest fab in Taiwan / full item
- Singapore’s Singtel and Korea’s SK Telecom roll out world-first telco-provided GPU-as-a-service, looking at partnerships across Asia and Europe to grow the service / full item
Indo-Pacific Critical Tech Forum 2024 – October in Japan
