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   Malaysia starts building Penang 'Silicon Island' for AI and chips

   Malaysia is reclaiming land off Penang's southern coast for Silicon Island, a roughly 2,300-acre man-made development intended for chip design, advanced packaging and automated testing, with completion expected over about a decade. Reclamation and infrastructure costs are put at RM14 billion; the plan includes a roughly 700-acre Green Tech Park whose first phase is intended to run entirely on renewable energy, plus 402 acres of green space. A Deloitte study cited by the developer projects RM1.1 trillion in cumulative economic output and about 220,000 jobs by 2050, though the first industrial operations are not expected until early 2029.

   Bloomberg Technology · 🔥 19
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   World Bank lifts Vietnam's 2026 growth forecast to 7.4% on AI hardware exports

   The World Bank raised Vietnam's 2026 growth forecast by 1.1 percentage points to 7.4%, as high-tech manufacturing and exports benefit from surging global AI investment. Finished computers, servers and routers make up about 60% of Vietnam's AI-related exports, and AI-related goods accounted for more than 70% of recent export growth in Vietnam, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand. Vietnam's AI-related exports grew from roughly 20% of GDP in 2023 to about 32% in 2025, though the country sits in assembly rather than leading-edge fabrication, leaving it exposed if AI hardware spending slows.

   TechRepublic · 🔥 3

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