Singapore

Indonesia's West Java province has ordered Singapore's BDx Data Centers to halt construction of a 640-MW AI data-center campus, just over a week after its groundbreaking.

Singapore’s adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) could raise its potential economic output by 1.06 percent in the long run, offering a partial offset to the drag from an ageing population, although the transition could put pressure on some workers, particularly fresh graduates, the ASEAN+3 Macroeconomic Research Office (AMRO) said on Wednesday.

A joint venture between Japan's TOPPAN and U.S. chipmaker Broadcom opened Singapore's first plant for high-end FC-BGA chip substrates on Tuesday, a component in short supply as demand for AI processors surges.

Cloudflare plans to become a public certificate authority supporting conventional TLS certificates and post-quantum Merkle Tree Certificates.

Sumsub has launched an APAC Agentic AI Council focused on agent identity, delegated authority, interoperability, accountability and practical governance frameworks.

Ropedia, a Singapore-based physical-AI startup spun out of Nanyang Technological University, has launched a program giving academic researchers access to its wearable data-capture device.

Johnson Controls has joined NUS' Sustainable Tropical Data Centre Testbed 2.0 to study AI-ready infrastructure under real-world tropical conditions.

NUS is partnering with industry leaders Applied Materials and Micron to strengthen the pipeline of industry-ready talent for Singapore’s semiconductor sector.

VisionPower Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (VSMC), a chipmaking joint venture between Taiwan's Vanguard International Semiconductor (VIS) and Dutch group NXP Semiconductors, opened its first factory in Singapore on September 28, a $7.8 billion investment.

Temasek, a Singapore state-owned global investment company, has bought a 9 percent stake in FSI, an Italian growth-equity manager, and pledged to invest in its future funds.