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Asia-Pacific market trend intelligence tracks cloud service, regional ISP, national telecom, data centre, and institutional infrastructure signals across Asia-Pacific internet infrastructure markets. BTW.
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Asia-Pacific Cloud Services Trends
Beijing builds Satellite Town to boost space sector
Beijing is building a dedicated Satellite Town to consolidate its fast-growing commercial space sector, with core facilities due for completion in 2026 as China pushes towards large-scale orbital infrastructure.
Asia-Pacific Cloud Services Trends
Japan approves $4bn more for Rapidus chips
Japan adds ¥631.5bn to Rapidus, lifting total chip R&D support to ¥2.354tn as it rebuilds domestic semiconductor capacity.
Asia-Pacific Cloud Services Trends
DeepSeek V4 runs on Huawei chips
DeepSeek’s V4 AI model will run on Huawei chips, highlighting China’s push to integrate domestic semiconductors and AI systems.
Asia-Pacific Cloud Services Trends
China chipmakers take 41% domestic AI accelerator market
China’s AI accelerator server market is shifting as local vendors gain 41% share, accelerating self-reliant computing infrastructure.
Asia-Pacific Cloud Services Trends
Australia taps Anthropic for AI safety, economic data push
Australia signs AI MoU with Anthropic, combining safety research and economic data to shape regulation. A model for global AI governance.
Asia-Pacific Cloud Services Trends
North Korea-linked hack hits core internet software supply chain
A North Korea-linked hack targets core software components, raising urgent concerns over global supply chain security.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
Vodafone Idea taps 1.6Tbps optics for 5G surge
Vodafone Idea deploys 1.6Tbps optical technology to boost capacity, signalling a shift to ultra-high-capacity telecom networks in India.
Asia-Pacific Cloud Services Trends
South Korea’s Rebellions raises $400m to scale AI chip ambitions
Rebellions raises $400m to scale AI chips but faces strong competition, supply limits and uncertain enterprise adoption.
Asia-Pacific Institutional Trends
Australia probes tech giants over social media ban
Australia probes tech giants over social media ban compliance, raising global pressure on platforms to strengthen age verification systems.
Asia-Pacific Cloud Services Trends
China’s DeepSeek faces major service outage
DeepSeek AI suffers longest outage after viral rise, exposing infrastructure strain in China’s fast-growing AI sector
Asia-Pacific Regional ISP Trends
KBRO expands Taiwan broadband with Harmonic fibre rollout
KBRO expands fibre-on-demand broadband in Taiwan using Harmonic’s virtualised cOS platform to deliver multi-gigabit connectivity.
Asia-Pacific Cloud Services Trends
Huawei AI Chips Gain Traction as Orders Grow
Huawei’s AI chips gain traction as ByteDance and Alibaba plan orders, boosting China’s semiconductor ambitions.
Asia-Pacific Cloud Services Trends
Colt plans Juno-based transpacific route for AI-era traffic
Colt plans to connect its US and Japanese terrestrial networks through the Juno cable, adding a Tokyo–Los Angeles route for customers seeking capacity and resilience.
Asia-Pacific Cloud Services Trends
ClawBot links OpenClaw to WeChat; it does not put an AI model inside the app
Tencent’s ClawBot turns WeChat into a command channel for a separate OpenClaw instance. The gradual rollout does not yet establish adoption or returns.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
Ericsson and SK Telecom put AI-RAN validation before 6G launch claims
The five-year MoU links AI-RAN, 5G evolution and 6G research, but discloses no trial result, purchase commitment or commercial launch.
Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
AirTrunk’s Singapore HQ coordinates growth; it does not add 180MW
AirTrunk opened a regional office in Singapore. Its three facilities total a company-reported 180MW IT load, but the office itself creates no new data-centre capacity.
Asia-Pacific Cloud Services Trends
New Zealand approves first AI factory project in Southland
Datagrid’s Southland project will build New Zealand’s first AI-focused computing facility designed for high-performance AI workloads.
Asia-Pacific Cloud Services Trends
Pakistan awards 5G licences after 12-year delay
A long-delayed spectrum auction clears the path for 5G deployment in Pakistan as operators prepare for next-generation mobile services.
Asia-Pacific Regional ISP Trends
Far EasTone's Ericsson selection is a 5G-Advanced control-surface bet
Far EasTone's Ericsson agreement is not only a vendor-selection story. It is a control-surface event for Taiwan's mobile network: the operator is tying radio access, core network evolution, automation, energy performance and 5G-Advanced capability to a named equipment and…
Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
TCS explores new AI data centre deals in India
Tata Consultancy Services explores partnerships to expand AI data centre capacity across India’s growing digital economy.