in December of 2024
December 2024’s technology news from across Asia and the broad Indo-Pacific region captured an of-course wide range of developments and issues, implementations and challenges, across established, emerging and also critical technologies, both in the region and affecting it.
In December, technology news from across Asia touched on items spanning, for instance: Apple’s likely move to integrate China’s AI models into future Apple products; India’s moves to raise the level of computing power available; Australia’s new legislation barring under-16s from social media; South Korea’s $10 billion loans to boost the country’s chips industry; and, of course, many more.
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Australian tech: December 2024
- Australia: UniSA engineers have combined star-based navigation with vision analysis tech for navigation where GPS is out or unreliable…
KPMG Fintech Australia Landscape 2024
Cambodian tech: December 2024
- Cambodia sets sights on lifting digital skills base to 100,000 by 2030, alongside boosting basic digital literacy and rolling out broadband access to 1600 communities by 2027…
Assessing the state of Cambodia’s startup ecosystem
China tech news: December 2024
- Apple is reportedly now in talks with Tencent and ByteDance around integrating AI models from the companies into future iPhones sold in China…
GSMA: The Mobile Economy China 2024
HONG KONG tech in December 2024
- China’s HK-based SenseTime, best-known for facial recognition tech, restructures to add generative AI focus for both opportunities and in a bid to stay relevant as AI evolves…
Chainalysis: Geography of Crypto Report 2024
Indian technology news: December 2024
- A brief overview of the Indian Astronomical Observatory in Hanle, in the Himalayas, identified as the nation’s most suitable location for ground-to-sat quantum communications…
Inc42 DataLabs: 2024 Indian Tech Startups Report (pdf link)
Indonesia tech news: December 2024
- Indonesia: Project Garuda Proof of Concept Report on the Wholesale Rupiah Digital Cash Ledger is available to download from Indonesia’s central bank…
Indonesia: Project Garuda, central bank digital currency
Japanese technology: December 2024
- Japan: “About 90% of the world’s advanced chips are produced by [TSMC] whose model involves operating at massive scale… If [Japan’s] Rapidus succeeds, it would challenge both the economics and geography of the industry’…
European Parliament: The Geopolitics of Technology
South Korea tech news: December 2024
- The head of South Korea’s stock exchange says the nation should ‘institutionalize crypto’ and ‘act quickly’ or risk losing ground on its international rivals…
Google Cloud Security: Threat Horizons H1 2025 Report
Malaysia’s tech news: December 2024
- “Malaysia has recorded a staggering RM1.224 billion loss due to online crime between January and October this year, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim announced…”
Accenture: AI – A Declaration of Autonomy
New Zealand tech: December 2024
- New Zealand’s Zenno Astronautics gains backing from Mitsubishi Electric ME Innovation Fund with superconducting technology for space and satellite control applications…
BloombergNEF: Climatescope 2024 – Emerging Markets Power Factbook
Philippines tech News: December 2024
- Philippines: An intro to AgriConnect, national winner of the Red Bull Basement competition, AI-driven app that alerts farmers to crop threats to help manage risks…
The Block: Digital Assets Outlook Report for 2025
Singapore tech in December 2024
- Singapore and Hong Kong ranked as the most blockchain-friendly regions based on patents, jobs, and crypto exchanges in an ApeX Protocol study…
Deloitte Insights: Tech Trends 2025
Taiwan technology news: December 2024
- Taiwan: An overview of Taoyuan municipality’s moves towards becoming a new global innovation hub, building on 12000 factories and industrial output over $122BN…
McKinsey: Geopolitics and the geometry of global trade
Thailand TEch snapshot: December 2024
- Thailand unveils the DE-fence Platform, a wide-focus platform aiming to counter digital fraud and scams, with databases integrated from telcos, police, AML task force, and other agencies…
Invested: Australia’s Southeast Asia Economic Strategy to 2040
Vietnam snapshot: December 2024
- “Vietnam has emerged as a burgeoning hub for the semiconductor industry, now home to 174 foreign-invested projects with a total registered capital of nearly 11.6 billion USD…”
Indo-Pacific Insight: Tech, trade, supply, space, geopolitics…
critical Tech News: December 2024
- Adelaide’s OmnigenIQ adapts its bioreactor tech for use in space, enabling production of vital biologicals during missions rather tha requiring transport from Earth…
- China: Recent Shijian-19 space mission successfully tested a small, expandable module in orbit, potentially for use in planned Tiangong space station expansion work…
- European and Japanese space agencies issue joint statement on boosting cooperation on areas including planetary defense, moon exploration, Mars missions and more…
Critical tech news: December 2024 >
Critical technologies in the news, globally, in December 2024
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