Asia-Pacific Trends
Asia-Pacific Trends
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 Datacenter
AirTrunk studies cryogenic data-centre cooling
The partners will study whether running computing hardware at cryogenic temperatures can improve performance without letting refrigeration erase the energy gains.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
Vietnam shuts down 2G, exposing VoLTE gaps
Some older 4G phones may keep mobile data but lose voice calls after Vietnam's 2G shutdown unless VoLTE is supported and enabled.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
USTDA backs Thailand-US subsea cable study
USTDA is funding feasibility work for National Telecom's proposed THUS cable, which would avoid the South China Sea and could connect five other Southeast Asian markets.
Asia-Pacific Cloud Services
CEC launches standalone BizAxis IaaS in Japan
CEC has launched a Japan-based infrastructure service that runs independently of VMware, with backup, monitoring and security sold separately.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
NTT DOCOMO deploys Nokia baseband in Open RAN
NTT DOCOMO is using Nokia's latest baseband with radios from other suppliers in its commercial LTE and 5G network.
Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
SECI, HyperVault sign Hyderabad power MoU
The agreement covers renewable generation, land, and transmission for HyperVault's proposed campus, but does not yet set megawatts or an energisation date.
Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
Mumbai backs data centres, plans regulation
Mumbai's civic chief has backed data-centre development while signalling future regulation, leaving project-level rules and site conditions unresolved.
Asia-Pacific Institutional Trends
Z.AI raises $5bn through shares and bonds
Z.AI raised $5bn through shares and zero-coupon convertible bonds due in September 2027 to fund model development and expansion.
Asia-Pacific Institutional Trends
China Merchants Bank logs 13.88m AI-equivalent hours
China Merchants Bank says token throughput rose more than 78% as it measures AI use against the work delivered.
Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
NSW closes data-centre grid-cost consultation
NSW’s proposed grid rules could make data-centre developers put up more money before connection work begins.
Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
China Mobile launches hybrid-chip AI inference system
Mobile Cloud says its GPU-neuromorphic design cut operating costs by more than 40% in DeepSeek V4 Flash tests against comparable domestic GPU clusters.
Asia-Pacific Cloud Services Trends
China expands national computing-capacity monitoring
China's national computing platform is widening visibility across provincial systems, but its value will depend on whether buyers can turn listed capacity into usable computing services.
Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
Firmus pitches A$7bn AI float to Asian investors
Firmus is courting investors for a proposed Australian listing while five of its seven AI computing sites remain under development.
Asia-Pacific Institutional Trends
ASML gains broader backing for High NA tools
ASML's High NA tools are gaining customers, but their economics will be decided on the production line rather than by the machine price alone.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
SoftBank tests HAPS service ahead of 2027 launch
A Sceye platform crossed the Pacific and carried calls, messages and data over SoftBank's network, moving the project beyond earlier airborne demonstrations.
Asia-Pacific Institutional Trends
Samsung and SK hynix reject KEPCO power prepayment plan
KEPCO wanted future electricity bills to help fund grid construction now, but Samsung and SK hynix rejected a proposed 25 trillion won advance.
Asia-Pacific Institutional Trends
Samsung backs ASML High NA for 2028 DRAM
Samsung plans to use ASML's High NA lithography in volume DRAM production from 2028, while a separate larger-mask programme remains years away.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
SoftBank's overseas satellite offer has a retail boundary
Three countries are scheduled for 28 September, with the Philippines to follow in autumn. The shared constellation does not make every subscriber's roaming rights interchangeable.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
Okazaki's fibre expansion comes with several retail contracts
NTT WEST plans to extend access and television services into parts of the Japanese city. One physical line does not mean one internet subscription, one viewing entitlement or one retail counterparty.
Asia-Pacific Datacenter Trends
TECROWD's data-centre plan defers ¥550m until the sale
Fund 103 proposes no bank borrowing, yet ¥550m of construction cost would be paid from the eventual property sale before investor distributions. That payment order matters more than treating the advertised yield as a promise.