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They stopped importing because their $670 million factory in West Java is coming online. 150,000 units a year, 18,000 jobs, full local production. BYD  is relocating an entire manufacturing ecosystem into ASEAN — factory, supply chain, R&D centre, training facilities.  Indonesia isn't a sales market for them. It's a production base. And this is the part that matters for Singapore: When a Chinese manufacturer builds a 150,000-unit factory in Indonesia, they don't just bring the assembly line. They create an industrial gravitational pull that reshapes how capital, talent, and technology flow through the region. Singapore is not part of that gravitational pull. We don't make things. We finance them, advise on them, and trade them. That's fine — as long as we understand the ecosystems we're financing. But here's the question I keep asking in client meetings and getting no answer to: if you're managing a portfolio with ASEAN exposure, can you explain BYD's Indonesia strategy? Do you understand why they chose Karawang, and what that signals about Indonesia's industrial policy? If not, you're advising on a region you don't fully understand. And your clients will eventually notice. China's ASEAN manufacturing strategy is the single most important structural shift in regional capital flows this decade.  Singapore professionals, especially those in wealth management and advisory, need to understand it at a level deeper than "China is investing in Southeast Asia." The specifics matter. The factory locations matter. The supply chain architecture matters. The regulatory incentives matter.  And right now, not enough people in Singapore's financial sector is paying attention to any of it.

1. AI will Predominantly Remain in the Cloud The growth in datacenter investments to support LLMs will continue strongly next year, as LLMs continue to grow in parameters. 2. New Transistor Architecture Shakes Up Foundry Market The move to next-generation 2nm processes will improve both power consumption and performance. 3. HBM4 Leads Memory Market Recovery Amid the leading HBM manufacturers’ aggressive scaling of HBM3E production, the next wave of AI chips with the new 16Hi HBM4 is expected to achieve volume production in 1H 2026. 4. Advanced Packaging and Photonics Turn the Heat Down Silicon photonics, in the form of co-packaged optics (CPO), promises to reduce networking power consumption by up to 70% while also potentially increasing data transfer speeds. 5. US/China Geopolitics have Deep Repercussions The rapidly shifting technology landscape seems almost slow compared to the pace of change happening at a global political level, with tariffs and trade restrictions creating a fluctuating business environment.

These machines are responsible for the world’s computer chips. ASML, a Dutch technology company, manufactures the world's most advanced and expensive chipmaking machines, costing up to US$400 million each. These High NA lithography systems are essential for TSMC to produce advanced semiconductors used by NVIDIA and Apple. The machines create extreme ultraviolet light (EUV) by shooting molten tin at 50,000 droplets per second and vaporizing them with lasers. This process etches microscopic patterns onto silicon wafers with unprecedented precision. Each machine takes 18 months to build, weighs more than a double-decker bus, and requires seven Boeing 747 aircraft for delivery. ASML's monopoly on this technology has made it a geopolitical flashpoint in global trade disputes. 

ZTT is proud to be recognized at the 2026 Corporate Credit Development Forum & the 17th Integrity Public Welfare Ceremony in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province of P.R.China. With strong credit management practices and a long-standing commitment to integrity, ZTT achieved a “triple recognition” across multiple national credit rankings, further reinforcing our credibility and trust in the industry. Notably, ZTT ranked No.146 on the 2025 China Top 500 Enterprise Credit List, a well-established benchmark that has been tracking corporate credit performance for over a decade. ZTT GROUP ZTT (Jiangsu Zhongtian Technology Co., Ltd.) embarked on its pioneering journey in optical fiber communications in 1992 and made its foray into the smart grid sector in 2002. Expanding its vision, ZTT embraced renewable energy products in 2011, marking a significant evolution. By 2020, the company had successfully extended its reach to 160 countries and regions, earning recognition as a global leader in its field. ZTT remains steadfast in its commitment to promoting sustainable practices, driving green and low-carbon development initiatives, and aligning with national goals to peak carbon dioxide emissions by 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality by 2060. As a champion of green manufacturing, ZTT actively contributes to regional economic growth and environmental stewardship.

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, SpaceX and xAI, has announced the Terafab project, a joint venture between the 3 companies will be the "largest chip manufacturing facility ever." In his usual grandiose fashion, Musk claims Terafab is the next step towards harnessing the power of the sun and creating a "galactic civilization." Musk told the plans for the Terafab in a livestream on X. He stated that the facility exists because the global chip industry cannot expand quickly enough to meet his projected demand across AI, robotics, and space computing. "That rate is much less than we'd like," Musk said from the defunct Seaholm Power Plant in downtown Austin. "We either build the TeraFab, or we don't have the chips, and we need the chips, so we build the TeraFab." The Terafab project, estimated to cost at least $20 billion, will start with the Advanced Technology Fab in Austin, Texas, where Tesla is already headquartered. The Austin fab will house equipment for logic, memory, packaging, testing, and lithography mask production in a single building. Musk claimed that capability does not exist at any other facility in the world, and that having everything under one roof enables a rapid iteration loop: make a chip, test it, revise the mask, and repeat without shipping wafers between sites.