Malaysia’s tech news headlines in Q1 of 2025
March 2025 ● February 2025 ● January 2025
- Malaysian population (2023): 34.3 million
- Malaysian online population: 25.3M / 75.5%
- Malaysia’s median age: 31.8 years
ASEAN Post-2025: Reimagining the ASEAN economic community
Malaysian tech news: March 2025
- Malaysia is to invest over $250 million across the coming decade, leveraging ARM Holding expertise, to build out the country’s AI and semiconductors ecosystem / full item
- Malaysia: ARM semiconductor and software design giant is set to ink an agreement to establish a base In Malaysia / full item
- Malaysian electric vehicles are gaining ground in their home market as local carmakers Proton Holdings and Perodua challenge top-seller BYD and Tesla with more affordable models. / full item
- Malaysia: An overview of Selangor’s role in the country’s tech moves, and the opportunities generated by its Integrated Circuit Design Park / full item
- Malaysia’s Silicon Valley challenges: “Despite becoming a major semiconductor player globally, Malaysia faces a talent crunch, funding problems and other supply chain gaps.” / full item
- Malaysia: GDS Holdings, a Chinese data centre operator, is seeking $3.4BN-equivalent loan for data centre operations in Malaysia / full item
- Malaysia: SkyeChip semiconductor designer is mulling IPO, potentially in H2 2025, building on the nation’s chips industry growth and aiming to leverage major SoftBank licensing deal / full item
- Malaysia’s PETRONAS FutureTech accelerator is now open for applications for its 4th global batch, seeking Asia Pacific-relevant startups in energy, materials, industry and beyond / full item
ISEAS: Trends in Southeast Asia
Malaysia’s tech news in February 2025
- Japan’s Seven Bank, the banking arm of 7-Eleven Group, is to install its first 100 ATMs in 4 Malaysian states / full item
- Johor-Singapore Special Economic Zone: …leading industrial regions like Penang, Kulim, and Klang Valley expected to benefit from increased investment and supply chain integration… / full item
- Malaysia looks at Free Trade Agreement reform, including digital focus, to enhance growth: “…digitalisation was a ‘missing component’ in Malaysia’s previous FTAs…” / full item
- Malaysia’s Hong Leong Bank and China’s WeBank Tech Services, subsidiary of China’s largest digital bank, ink agreement for fintech and AI collaboration and services growth / full item
- Several Chinese-owned solar panel makers have shut down or scaled back their operations in Malaysia, industry sources say as US tariffs, and scrutiny, rise / full item
- Malaysia: YTL Digital Bank Berhad gains Ministry of Finance digital banking license, with features including an AI-powered ‘private banker’ delivering tailored insights and strategies / full item
- Malaysia Digital Economy Corp’n launches its latest national initiative to boost SME digital adoption, with Penang SMEs leading the way / full item
- Malaysia and the UAE ink MoU to develop collaboration in AI under the Malaysia MADANI Artificial Intelligence – MMAI – Initiative / full item
- SEA’s cyber headaches: Malaysia emerged as the most targeted nation in Southeast Asia with 19,615,255 web-based threats… Indonesia was the second most affected, recording 3,204,294 threats. / full item
- “Malaysia’s data center sector investment grew threefold in 2024 with $31.5BN committed in the first 10 months of 2024, up from $10.3BN over 2023…” / full item
- Malaysia’s 1337 Ventures unveils Alpha Startups Inno4Her, an 8-week femtech-focused accelerator aiming to validate ideas, find product-market fit, and scale businesses / full item
- Malaysia: Economy minister sees Malaysia producing its own chips and GPUs in 5-10 years, boosted by growing data center investments in the country / full item
- Malaysia: Yondr Group data center operator secures over $900M for hyperscale data centre campus in Johor Bahru, with backers including International Finance Corp’n / full item
- Malaysia: Maxis telco and Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman partner on 5G, looking a commercially viable opportunities in healthcare and education / full item
- Malaysia’s iPrice e-commerce aggregator raised $10M, with sights on becoming the largest online shopping platform in SE Asia / full item
- Malaysia: Communications regulator grants WeChat and TikTok licences to operate under new social media law, with other major platforms mid-application or failing to apply / full item
- An overview of the newly-proposed Johor-Singapore Special Economic Zone / full item
KPMG Venture Pulse Q1 2025 – Asia findings
Malaysian Tech: January 2025
- Japan’s Seven Bank, the banking arm of 7-Eleven Group, is to install its first 100 ATMs in 4 Malaysian states / full item
- Johor-Singapore Special Economic Zone: …leading industrial regions like Penang, Kulim, and Klang Valley expected to benefit from increased investment and supply chain integration… / full item
- Malaysia looks at Free Trade Agreement reform, including digital focus, to enhance growth: “…digitalisation was a ‘missing component’ in Malaysia’s previous FTAs…” / full item
- Malaysia’s Hong Leong Bank and China’s WeBank Tech Services, subsidiary of China’s largest digital bank, ink agreement for fintech and AI collaboration and services growth / full item
- Several Chinese-owned solar panel makers have shut down or scaled back their operations in Malaysia, industry sources say as US tariffs, and scrutiny, rise / full item
- Malaysia: YTL Digital Bank Berhad gains Ministry of Finance digital banking license, with features including an AI-powered ‘private banker’ delivering tailored insights and strategies / full item
- Malaysia Digital Economy Corp’n launches its latest national initiative to boost SME digital adoption, with Penang SMEs leading the way / full item
- Malaysia and the UAE ink MoU to develop collaboration in AI under the Malaysia MADANI Artificial Intelligence – MMAI – Initiative / full item
- SEA’s cyber headaches: Malaysia emerged as the most targeted nation in Southeast Asia with 19,615,255 web-based threats… Indonesia was the second most affected, recording 3,204,294 threats. / full item
- “Malaysia’s data center sector investment grew threefold in 2024 with $31.5BN committed in the first 10 months of 2024, up from $10.3BN over 2023…” / full item
- Malaysia’s 1337 Ventures unveils Alpha Startups Inno4Her, an 8-week femtech-focused accelerator aiming to validate ideas, find product-market fit, and scale businesses / full item
- Malaysia: Economy minister sees Malaysia producing its own chips and GPUs in 5-10 years, boosted by growing data center investments in the country / full item
- Malaysia: Yondr Group data center operator secures over $900M for hyperscale data centre campus in Johor Bahru, with backers including International Finance Corp’n / full item
- Malaysia: Maxis telco and Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman partner on 5G, looking a commercially viable opportunities in healthcare and education / full item
- Malaysia’s iPrice e-commerce aggregator raised $10M, with sights on becoming the largest online shopping platform in SE Asia / full item
- Malaysia: Communications regulator grants WeChat and TikTok licences to operate under new social media law, with other major platforms mid-application or failing to apply / full item
- An overview of the newly-proposed Johor-Singapore Special Economic Zone / full item
