Asia

SoftBank has launched an $11 billion-equivalent bond sale to finance its next $10 billion OpenAI investment tranche and refinance bridge borrowing.

China’s CXMT is preparing an R&D production line for NAND flash memory, broadening beyond DRAM as AI infrastructure contributes to a global memory shortage.

Thunes, the Singapore-based payment firm, has announced a major expansion of its Direct Global Network across the Middle East.

Dtcpay, a Singapore-based payment, announced Friday the extension of its $25 million Series A funding round with SBI Group as its strategic investor.

JTC Corporation, Singapore’s industrial land and infrastructure agency, and Kajima Corporation, Japan’s construction company, have launched the first pilot project to explore the use of autonomous heavy construction equipment in Singapore.

Circle has launched the Arc public mainnet with more than 100 institutional and ecosystem builders, including Standard Chartered, SBI Group and Sumitomo in its validator cohort.

AnyMind Group has launched AnyCreator Stream, bringing live-stream analytics, brand campaign discovery and earnings tracking into one creator platform.

Asian markets have tightened scrutiny on artificial intelligence (AI) demand as grid strain lifts thermal power's upside, BMI Country Risk and Industry Research said on Thursday.

Nexperia and Tata Electronics have formed a broad semiconductor partnership covering wafer fabrication, assembly, testing, technology development and supply resilience in India.

Huawei has unveiled its Peerium architecture for linking up to one million processors while accelerating its next-generation Ascend AI chip roadmap.