Asia's Tech News, Quarterly: 2025

Technology news coverage, collected across South and Southeast Asia in January, February, and March of 2025, the year’s first quarter.

15 locations covered in a one-page, 3-monthly collection of key technology news headlines from Q1 2025.

Also available:
Critical technologies news – First quarter 2025 report >

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In Q1 of 2025, critical technologies developments spanned a huge range of applications, innovations, and concerns, including:

NVIDIA debuts Groot N1, described as a foundation model for humanoid robotics…
Holland’s Fortaegis BV is in investor talks to raise over $10M to build specialized chips featuring security including physical ‘fingerprinting’ and software architecture…
Vietnam: ‘Ho Chi Minh City aims to train at least 9000 highly skilled workers with university degrees or higher in the semiconductor industry by 2030’…
Australia: Esper secures Au$5M to identify and map critical minerals, and more, from space…

Read the full Q1 report, covering global critical technology news across January, February and March of 2025:
Critical technologies – Q1 2025 report >

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