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- India’s data centers: “The future expansion of DC industry till 2026 will require approximately 7.3 million sqft of real estate and a capital investment of $3.8 billion…” / full item
Critical minerals: “…in 2022 global demand for lithium exceeded its supply by 9%, but by the end of 2024, the lithium production volume will exceed the consumption volume by 11%…” / full item
- Just like Moore’s Law… the scaling law is not a law of nature. It is not really a law at all. It is an empirical observation that can be true for a while… / full item
- Canada’s Photonic Inc gains access to 19-mile Telus PureFibre network in British Columbia for real-world testing of quantum communications and encryption / full item
- For others like the Philippines with its 7,100 islands and Indonesia with 16,000,47 satellites offer one of the most cost-effective approaches to addressing digital exclusion… / full item
- Germany’s Ubitium secures $3.7M seed funding for universal RISC-V processor that eliminates the need for specialized chips, enabling advanced AI at no additional cost / full item
- What’s in the new Building Chips in America Act and what does it mean for the semiconductor industry? From the World Economic Forum / full item
- ‘Multi-Datacenter Training – OpenAI’s Ambitious Plan To Beat Google’s Infrastructure’ via SemiAnalysis / full item
- With approximately one million objects measuring between 1 cm and 10 cm orbiting Earth… space debris is a looming issue for the growing space economy… / full item
- ‘From carbon mapping to shooting dust into space from the Moon, how will space tech help us solve the climate crisis?’ / full item
- Video: An intro to The Exploration Company’s NYX vehicle, a European competitor to SpaceX’s Dragon, targeting cargo services to the Int’l Space Station, and human space transport / full item
- Gogo in-flight internet connectivity firm recently acquired rival Satcom Direct to counter rising competition from SpaceX Starlink in providing Wi-Fi to business jets / full item
- ‘Looking to the skies: The importance of satellite cybersecurity’ “More than 7,500 operational satellites are estimated to be in operation, with thousands of launches planned…” / full item
- Download: ‘Supply chain networks in the age of generative AI – Turning promise into performance’ from Accenture / full item
- Japan and Peru are set to ink collaboration agreement on minerals mining, with Japan providing development and tech expertise to resource-rich Peru / full item
- Amazon partners Switzerland’s Unbound Potential for battery system featuring no critical raw materials, longer shelf life and lower costs for stationary applications / full item
“Approximately 50% of the critical minerals on Australia’s Critical Minerals List are co-products or by-products of major commodities… Australia has large economically demonstrated resources.” / full item
- For others like the Philippines with its 7,100 islands and Indonesia with 16,000,47 satellites offer one of the most cost-effective approaches to addressing digital exclusion… / full item
- China: A deep dive look at the ‘Eastern Data, Western Computing’ project, its component parts, considerations and dovetail projects / full item
- China: Space Transportation, aka Lingkong Tianxing Technology, claims successful prototype engine test for future Yunxing hypersonic passenger airplane / full item
- Taiwan Semiconductor Research Institute completes procurement of its first full-stack quantum computer from Finland’s IQM, set for installation in Q2 2025 / full item
- India: Dept of Science & Tech has selected 8 firms for support under Nat’l Quantum Mission and N’l Mission on Interdisciplinary Cyber-Physical Systems / full item
- Australia: Advanced Strategic Capabilities Accelerator awards over $60M in R&D contracts to 21 projects spanning quantum, defence tech, universities and the CSIRO / full item
- Australia: Canada’s BTQ Technologies quantum computing firm partners Macquarie University on advanced quantum algorithms and secure communications research / full item
- Report: ‘Post-Quantum Cryptography – Securing digital communications between Banque de France and the Monetary Authority of Singapore’ / full item
- TSMC looks to mass produce chips on its N2 – 2 nanometer class – technology in late 2025, and A16 – 1.6nm class – process in late 2026 / full item
- Advanced Micro Devices, AMD, is reportedly to enter the mobile devices market with new accelerated processing chips from a TSMC-produced 3nm process / full item
- China’s Huawei reportedly plans mass-production of its most advanced AI chip in Q1 2025, partly in bid to reach commercially-viable 70% functionality of chips produced / full item
- China: Xingyun IC gains backing with alternative approach to next-gen high-performance GPU chips for AI, looking to general x86 servers rather than proprietary AI hardware / full item
- Taiwan: TSMC plans to establish 10 new factories worldwide in 2025, covering demand for 2nm processes and advanced semiconductor packaging, in part driven by AI growth / full item
- South Korea: Samsung Electronics commences gear installation at new NRD-K R&D complex, looking at future product development across all semiconductor fields / full item
- Taiwan proposes economic partnership agreement with the European Union, looking at participation under the European Chips Act / full item
- Biden administration confirms $6.6BN subsidy for Taiwan’s TSMC, alongside up to $5BN in loans, marking the first instance of a major CHIPS Act award reaching this stage / full item
- China: Beijing and state enterprises and funds are to establish a $4.6BN 12-inch wafer fabrication facility, further boosting domestic semiconductor production / full item
- Japan: Gov’t commits over $65 billion in additional funding for semiconductor and AI tech development to 2030, with Rapidus a key beneficiary / full item
- “Although TSMC plans to make 2-nanometer chips [abroad] in the future, its core technology will stay in Taiwan…” / full item
“…despite Trump’s threat to repeal Biden’s 2022 Chips and Science Act… experts say they don’t think he’ll ultimately do much more than perhaps tweak it around the edges.” / full item
- Firms including TSMC and GlobalFoundries complete pre-agreement negotiations for grants under Chips & Science Act for US facilities, with Biden-Trump transition raising questions / full item
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp is reportedly to receive ASML’s most advanced chipmaking machine before year-end, second only to Intel / full item
- India: Gujarat rolls out India’s first dedicated state-level semiconductor policy, with expected jobs boost of up to 53,000 / full item
- Taiwan’s TSMC’s Arizona facility will roll out its first 4 nanometer chips in December, with production expected to ramp up through 2025, and 3nm chips slated for 2028 / full item
- Japan: Gov’t partners Tenstorrent, a Silicon Valley AI chip firm, to train up to 200 chip designers over 5 years, as part of Japan’s bid to develop its semiconductor industry / full item
“…the semiconductor market in India, currently valued at $23.2 Bn, is predicted to reach $80.3 Bn by 2028.” / full item
- Intel CEO reportedly derailed the firm’s TSMC semiconductor discounts with ill-considered remarks, losing 40% price cut in the process / full item
- Download: ‘Supply chain networks in the age of generative AI – Turning promise into performance’ from Accenture / full item
- Australia: Deloitte expands Space Info Sharing & Analysis Centers with new Watch Center Hub in Australia to deliver real-time threat intelligence and cybersecurity / full item
- Australia: Norway’s KSAT partners WA’s Starsite to host, maintain and operate a new lunar mission-focused site in WA, featuring a 20M antenna / full item
- India: TakeMe2Space preps India’s first AI lab for orbit in December, aiming to demonstrate real-time data processing in orbit, making research more affordable and accessible / full item
- China’s manned lunar mission, targeting a moon landing by 2030, includes a a three-day rover vehicle exploration of the moon’s surface / full item
- China’s SpaceSail inks MoU with Telebras, Brazil’s state-owned telecoms company, to provide its ‘Thousand Sails’ satellite internet services similar to StarLink / full item
- Australia: Adelaide’s OmnigenIQ adapts its bioreactor tech for use in space, enabling production of vital biologicals during missions rather tha requiring transport from Earth / full item
- China: Recent Shijian-19 space mission successfully tested a small, expandable module in orbit, potentially for use in planned Tiangong space station expansion work / full item
- European and Japanese space agencies issue joint statement on boosting cooperation on areas including planetary defense, moon exploration, Mars missions and more / full item
- China: Space Transportation, aka Lingkong Tianxing Technology, targets H2 2025 for first test of Mach 4-capable Cuantianhou near-space reusable spaceplane prototype / full item
- India: PierSight preps Varuna satellite for in-orbit demonstration, aiming for 24/7 all-weather maritime surveillance / full item
- New Zealand: Dawn Hypersonics, part of Dawn Aerospace, achieved supersonic flight with prototype, completing a 66,000 foot ascent in just 118.6 seconds / full item
- India is now planning to build a moon-orbiting space station by 2040 as part of roadmap to establish a long-term Indian presence beyond Earth orbit / full item
- China Aerospace Science & Tech Corp unveils concept for fully-reusable heavy-lift rockets, targeting 100-ton delivery to low Earth orbit and 50 tons to lunar transfer orbit / full item
- Taiwan: An intro to the TAcc+ International SpaceTech Startup Supporting Program and some of the participating firms / full item
- China’s CAS Space commercial space launch firm launched 15 satellites into orbit including one for the Sultanate of Oman, marking the firm’s first overseas customer / full item
- China’s CAS Space, a commercial spinoff from Chinese Academy of Sciences, looks to deliver launch services to global clients in light of fierce domestic competition / full item
- Australia’s Gilmour Space gains launch permit from Australian Space Agency for first flight of Eris small launch vehicle from Queensland’s Bowen Orbital Spaceport / full item
- China Manned Space Engineering Office has selected two low-cost cargo transportation systems to serve the Tiangong space station, each capable of delivering at least 1800kg to orbit / full item
- Taiwan: Some SpaceX suppliers have reportedly transferred portions of manufacturing supply chains off the island, following SpaceX concerns over geopolitical tensions / full item
- China: Cosmoleap launch secured $14M for Yueqian reusable rocket, and vehicle recovery system inspired by SpaceX, likely targeting mega-constellation sats delivery / full item
- ‘1st Australian Space Education Forum’ is set for November 25 in Perth, WA, delivered in partnership with the Australian Space Agency / full item
- SpaceX launched its first mission for the Indian Space Research Organisation, delivering a 4700kg satellite to orbit in the 3rd scheduled SpaceX launch in 24 hours / full item
- New Zealand: OpenStar Technologies hit nuclear fusion energy milestone, generating plasma for the first time / full item
- Malaysia: Gov’t is considering small modular reactors as a power source, seeing SMRs as a small, safe, and more cost-effective energy option into the future / full item
- Samsung now reportedly to curb supply of chips 7nm and smaller to China firms, aligning with US limitations on tech access, with Intel likely next to cut supply / full item
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co notified Chinese chip design firms it is halting production for them of chips at 7 nanometres or smaller, aligning with US sanctions / full item
- Taiwan’s shift towards renewable energy is creating substantial challenges for industries… [TSMC] is now facing higher electricity costs in Taiwan compared to any other region where it operates… / full item
- South Korea’s Perigee Aerospace space launch firm and Thailand’s Geo-Informatics & Space Tech Development Agency ink MOU to develop Thai space infrastructure and capabilities / full item
- China: Huawei is preparing to launch its first smartphone equipped with a fully-homegrown operating system, HarmonyOS Next / full item
- ‘Semiconductor back-end manufacturing, less capital-intensive than strategic front-end chipmaking, is dominated by China and Taiwan, but Vietnam is among the fastest-growing countries’ / full item
- Online now: Asia’s Tech News Podcast / Audio episode 2, a 10-minute round-up of Asia-Pac tech news headlines / full item