
South Korea Launches $276 Million Hangang Supercomputer
Equipped with 8,496 GPUs, the national installation will begin full operations on December 16 to support artificial intelligence models and scientific simulations.
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Equipped with 8,496 GPUs, the national installation will begin full operations on December 16 to support artificial intelligence models and scientific simulations.

Telecommunications analysts warn Malaysia must establish legally binding rules preventing dual 5G operators from relying on the same technology vendors.

The platform directs users to DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 and Zhipu AI’s GLM-5.3 as replacements.

Financial subsidies will support on-demand broadband across 4,767 villages in Tamil Nadu.

Isla Lipana takes over domestic accounts while the telco searches for an international auditor.

The Philippine operator became the first telco in the country to reach the milestone after launching the transition under a government power initiative in 2025.

The Minj site marks the first operational milestone under a network pact signed in September.

French investment vehicle Vega SAS will emerge as Vodafone Group’s single largest shareholder.

SoftBank halted disaster warnings while carriers, lenders and rail operators took digital services offline following global vulnerabilities in core web code.

Bidding for Reliance Industries’ digital unit topped four times the available shares on day two, as retail buyers took up their entire allocation inside two hours.

Founders Dennis Anthony and Maria Grace Uy push fiber into provincial hubs and open a 12-megawatt data center in Angeles City.

The cloud giant links internal tools to Weixin and WeCom as Chow Tai Fook and SML Group automate store workflows and inventory.

Carrier networks face thousands of monthly fiber disruptions as AI workloads push regional transmission requirements up to tenfold.

India reached 550 million 5G connections across 99.9 percent of districts as telecom equipment vendor Ericsson targets network upgrades driven by artificial intelligence.

Organic sales rose 7 per cent to 59.5 billion crowns, but the Swedish telecom gear maker warned rising component costs will hit margins next year.

Google switched its planned gigawatt-scale hub in Andhra Pradesh to air cooling to ease local water strains as activists push for an infrastructure moratorium.
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