Archive - Asia Tech Lens

September 2025

The Wrap | 20 – 26 Sept 2025

Asia Tech Lens’ weekly digest: news, context, and signals shaping Asia’s tech future

Sep 26 •

Hot Chips, Cool Solutions: Asia’s Race to Reinvent Data Center Cooling

With AI workloads running hotter and denser, Asia’s data centers are experimenting with new ways to cut energy use and emissions

Sep 25 •

The Wrap | 13 – 19 Sept 2025

This week in Asia tech: Huawei unveils SuperPoD, Nvidia faces China pressure, DeepSeek trains AI for $294K, Tencent raises $1.27B, plus Carro, Apple…

Sep 19 •

Ropet: The AI Pet Startup Redefining Companionship

Ropet, founded by ex-ByteDance designer He Jiabin, secures fresh funding to create AI pets that focus on care, emotion, and human-machine companionship.

Sep 18 •

Can Nuclear Power Fuel Southeast Asia’s AI Boom?

Southeast Asia’s AI data centers are running into a power crunch. With demand set to double by 2030, countries from the Philippines to Vietnam are…

Sep 16 •

The Wrap | 6 – 12 Sept 2025

The weekly digest from Asia Tech Lens: news, context, and signals shaping the future - tracking the innovations, policies, and market shifts across Asia

Sep 12 •

Invisible Arteries: Subsea Cables in the Age of AI

Asia’s AI future isn’t just chips and data centers, it’s the fragile subsea cables carrying 95% of global traffic, and the risks that come with them

Sep 11 •

VinFast Pivots to Southeast Asia - But Can it Outrun BYD in Indonesia?

After global setbacks, VinFast looks closer to home

Sep 9 •

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