Key Asic clinches AI chip design deal
Key Asic Bhd has secured a RM13.1mil artificial intelligence (AI) chip design contract from a leading technology company.
UMS to expand reach via Bursa secondary listing
KUALA LUMPUR: Slated to be listed on the Main Market of Bursa Malaysia on Aug 1, high-precision engineering and manufacturing company UMS Integration Ltd – currently listed on the Mainboard of the Singapore Exchange (SGX) – says it will continue to expand its role within the semiconductor and aerospace value chains.
Key Asic wins RM13.1mil AI chip design contract
KUALA LUMPUR: Key Asic Bhd has secured a RM13.1mil artificial intelligence (AI) chip design contract from a leading technology company.
China’s photonic chip debut to power AI, 6G and quantum computing push: expert
TFLN wafer line is well-positioned for aggressive push into cloud and supercomputing, AI model training and inference, expert says.
Meta seeks $29 billion from private capital firms for AI data centers, FT reports
(Reuters) -Meta Platforms is seeking to raise $29 billion from private capital firms to build artificial intelligence data centers in the U.S., the Financial Times reported on Friday.
CoreWeave in talks to buy Core Scientific, WSJ reports
(Reuters) -CoreWeave is in talks to buy Core Scientific, after the bitcoin miner rejected an earlier deal from the cloud provider last year, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter.
Pakistan's Karachi launches first AI-dedicated green data center
ISLAMABAD, June 26 (Xinhua) -- Pakistan's first artificial intelligence (AI)-focused data center has been launched in the port city Karachi to support the country's growing digital and AI ambitions.
PETRONAS inks digital partnerships to enhance E&P competitiveness
KUALA LUMPUR: PETRONAS, through Malaysia Petroleum Management (MPM), yesterday formalised Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) at Energy Asia 2025. These MoUs reflect PETRONAS' commitment to global collaboration and forward-looking innovation to enhance Malaysia's positioning as a high-value, agile and investment friendly upstream environment.
China can’t buy Nvidia’s RTX 4090. Now its optical chip is twice as fast
'Optical computing … can meet AI's ever-growing computational demands and unleash a wave of new applications': Professor Xie Peng.
Applied Digital and CoreWeave ink 15-year lease worth $7 billion
Applied Digital said on Monday it has entered into two 15-year leases with CoreWeave, a specialized cloud services provider backed by Nvidia, which will generate about $7 billion in revenue for the data center operator over the lease period.
SoftBank buys chipmaker Ampere Computing for $6.5 billion, deepening AI bet
SANTA CLARA, California/TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese technology investor SoftBank Group is accelerating its move into chip technology companies with the $6.5 billion purchase of Ampere Computing, a U.S. chip startup founded by the former president of Intel.
SoftBank buys chipmaker Ampere Computing for US$6.5bil
Japanese technology investor SoftBank Group is accelerating its move into chip technology companies with the US$6.5bil purchase of Ampere Computing, a US chip startup founded by the former president of Intel.
Taiwan's Wistron to raise up to $923 million in share sale
SYDNEY (Reuters) -Taiwanese electronics manufacturer Wistron Corp is looking to raise up to $923 million by selling global depository shares that will be listed in Luxembourg, according to a term sheet reviewed by Reuters on Thursday.
Pentamaster to benefit from diversification into new segments
PETALING JAYA: Pentamaster Corp Bhd is exploring opportunities across the advancements in artificial intelligence (AI), data centre (DC), high performance computing and networking to mitigate sector-specific downturns.
Qualcomm to make data center processors that connect to Nvidia chips
SAN FRANCISCO/TAIPEI (Reuters) -Qualcomm on Monday said it will make custom data center central processing units, or CPUs, that use technology from Nvidia to connect to Nvidia's artificial intelligence chips.
CoreWeave to offer compute capacity in Google's new cloud deal with OpenAI, sources say
(Reuters) -CoreWeave has emerged as a winner in Google's newly signed partnership with OpenAI, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters, in the latest example of the voracious appetite for computing resources in the artificial-intelligence industry and the formation of new alliances to meet them.
Frontken to gain from high demand for chips due to AI boom
The emergence of DeepSeek, a Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) startup, is positive for the overall development of AI and hence bodes well for Frontken Corp Bhd as increased adoption could see higher demand for semiconductors.
Oracle sees ‘higher’ sales, boosting cloud momentum
Oracle Corp has projected cloud infrastructure sales will jump more than 70% in the fiscal year that began this month, boosting shares in late trading on investor enthusiasm for the closely watched business.
US stocks close higher on Microsoft, Meta earnings
US stocks advanced on Thursday, with the Dow and S&P 500 posting their eighth straight session of gains after strong results from megacaps Microsoft and Meta eased concerns about artificial intelligence spending.
Revolutionising research with high-performance computing
The immense processing power of supercomputers is crucial to tackling complex scientific calculations.
