Country by country snapshots of Asia’s technology news headlines, gathering coverage from May 2025
In May, technology news headlines across the broad Asia region touched on developments including, for instance: Singapore’s QuikBot last-mile deliveries; Indonesia’s huge digital economy opportunity; an Australian biotech partnership in Vietnam; Malaysia’s Silicon Island project off the coast of Penang; Xiaomi’s Xring01 mobile phone chip’s impressive performance; and many more.
So, hit the country links below to read a brief summary for each location for the month of May, 2025.
Reuters / Oxford: Digital News Report 2025
CSIRO: Australia’s artificial intelligence ecosystem – growth & opportunities
Stanford: Artificial Intelligence Index Report 2025
China’s AI Infrastructure Surge: Data Centers, AI Models, Military, Global
Visa: e-HKD Pilot Programme Phase 2 report (pdf link)
WEF: Technology Convergence Report 2025
Industrial Metaverse Research Study – Siemens (pdf link)
Linux Foundation: Japan Tech Talent Report 2025
Cushman & Wakefield: Global Data Center Market Comparison 2025
Indo-Pacific 5×5: Daily geopolitics newsletters & downloads
Collision Course: The future of China’s carmarkers in Russia
Philippines: AI Revolution Summit – October 2025
e-HKD and the future of global money movement
Secure World Foundation: Global Counterspace Capabilities
Glaad: Social Media Safety Index 2025
Int’l Energy Agency: Global Critical Minerals Outlook 2025
Critical Technologies: May 2025 News
- In Taiwan: TSMC is to open a chip design centre in Germany ‘which could at a later date help develop chips for applications including artificial intelligence’…
- In China: Sugon ‘supercomputer’ maker and Hygon chip designer, leading entities in the computing supply chain, have announced merger plans…
- In Vietnam: Danang city seeks investors for $69.3M semiconductor chip lab, focusing on advanced packaging…
- In China: Huawei is pushing its Ascend AI chip-based, high-performance ‘Supernode 384’ architecture as a rival to NVIDIA system for alleviating data center processing bottlenecks…
Critical technologies in the news – May 2025 report >
Critical technologies in the news, globally, in Q1 of 2025
Asia’s tech news, WEekly
newsletters in May of 2025
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