Asia Tech News Digest - September 21, 2026

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1 TechAsia Australian AI firm Firmus plans $5b IPO Firmus has two operating data centers in Australia and Singapore, with five more under development across Asia-Pacific. AI
2 CNA UN General Assembly: Wars, geopolitical divides, AI and climate change test global cooperation Nearly 130 heads of state and government are expected in New York for the UN General Assembly’s High-level Week, as multiple global issues test the UN’s ability to find common ground. AI
3 DigiTimes Z.ai's ZCode crisis exposes AI coding's enterprise trust gap Chinese AI developer Z.ai has open-sourced its ZCode coding tool and is preparing a zero-data-retention option for its Model-as-a-Service (MaaS) platform after ZCode was found packaging local code repositories and attempting to upload them to the cloud. AI
4 DigiTimes TSMC builds Kaohsiung hub to speed advanced packaging tests TSMC is building an advanced packaging validation hub in southern Taiwan as rapid chip-on-wafer-on-substrate (CoWoS) expansion puts pressure on equipment and materials suppliers to qualify new technologies faster. Semiconductor
5 DigiTimes Chinese image sensor maker GalaxyCore raises the stakes in high-end CIS GalaxyCore Inc. plans to raise up to CNY4.2 billion (US$627 million) to expand 12-inch CMOS image sensor (CIS) capacity and develop 100MP and 200MP sensors, doubling down on higher-value imaging after its first Fab-Lite investment took longer than expected to deliver returns. Semiconductor
6 EETAsia UVJC to Debut NovaJet Dry Thin-Film Deposition System at WESEMiBAY UVJC will showcase NovaJet, a maskless dry deposition system, as semiconductor manufacturing moves toward more flexible processing. The post UVJC to Debut NovaJet Dry Thin-Film Deposition System at WESEMiBAY appeared first on EE Times Asia . Semiconductor
7 TechAsia China’s CXMT says new memory-chip platform enters production CXMT used quadruple patterning to shrink memory-cell features to 11.95 nanometres. Semiconductor
8 TechAsia Meituan launches AI assistant for hairstylists More than 1.18 million users voted in Meituan’s hairstylist selection. AI

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