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- New Zealand: Wellington City Council preps to deploy 400 Pay by Plate parking machines in selected districts, automating payments and timekeeping / full item
- New Zealand gains its first hyper-scale data centre with opening of Microsoft facility, a centre part-supplied with geothermal energy / full item
- New Zealand’s Zenno Astronautics gains backing from Mitsubishi Electric ME Innovation Fund with superconducting tech for space and satellite control applications / full item
- New Zealand: An intro to Compostify, aiming to replace single-use plastics with bioplastic that decomposes naturally, initially targeting plant pots / full item
- The UK, US, Canada, New Zealand and Australian governments launched the Secure Innovation program to help tech firms and startups improve baseline cybersecurity / full item
- ICYMI: United Kingdom becomes the first European nation to join the Indo-Pacific’s Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership trade bloc / full item
Indo-Pacific Insight: Tech, trade, supply, space, geopolitics…
Critical technologies monthly
- Japan: “About 90% of the world’s advanced chips are produced by [TSMC] whose model involves operating at massive scale… If Rapidus succeeds, it would challenge both the economics and geography of the industry…”
- South Korea: Gov’t to roll out $10BN in low-interest loans in 2025 to support the chips industry, with advanced complex under construction in bid to attract firms…
- China: Landspace secures $123 million in state investment to speed development of reusable, methane-liquid oxygen launch vehicles…
Full report: Critical tech in December >
Critical technologies in the news, globally, in December 2024
Asia’s Tech News, Weekly in December
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