ARTERIS EXPANDS MULTI-DIE PORTFOLIO FOR AI, HPC CHIP DESIGNS

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 17 (Bernama) -- Arteris Inc, a provider of semiconductor technology for artificial intelligence (AI) applications, has expanded its multi-die portfolio to help semiconductor companies transition from monolithic system-on-chip (SoC) designs to chiplet-based architectures for AI, high-performance computing (HPC) and consumer electronics.

The company said its new FlexGen Multi-Die product extends network-on-chip (NoC) connectivity and data movement across die-to-die links, allowing multiple dies to operate as a unified architecture without requiring engineering teams to redesign how data moves through the system.

Arteris president and chief executive officer, K Charles Janac said multi-die architectures are becoming increasingly important as semiconductor systems expand beyond the boundaries of a single die.

According to the company in a statement, the new FlexGen Multi-Die product is designed for non-coherent AI and HPC architectures and complements Ncore Multi-Die, which supports cache-coherent systems.

FlexGen Multi-Die supports bidirectional transactions over a single Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express (UCIe) physical layer (PHY), reducing PHY area, power and input/output requirements by up to 50 per cent, the company said.

It also supports virtual channel link technology to improve utilisation of chiplet input/output resources and quality-of-service mechanisms to maintain throughput for high-priority traffic across shared die-to-die links.

Arteris said its broader multi-die portfolio also includes Magillem integration automation, which helps automate chiplet and multi-die integration, and Cycuity hardware security assurance for identifying vulnerabilities and verifying security requirements.

The company said the expanded portfolio provides semiconductor engineering teams with technologies covering data movement, system integration and security as they develop increasingly complex multi-die designs.

Arteris said the solutions are being used by customers transitioning existing architectures from single-die implementations to multi-die products, while the expanded portfolio is available to early access partners and strategic customers.

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PETRONAS CARIGALI STRENGTHENS STRATEGIC PORTFOLIO WITH NEW BLOCK A-18-01 PSC

BANGKOK, Sept 14 (Bernama) -- PC JDA Limited (PC JDA), a wholly owned subsidiary of PETRONAS Carigali Sdn Bhd (PETRONAS Carigali), together with PTTEP JDX Thailand Ltd. Co and PTTEP JDX Thailand (JDA) Limited (collectively, PTTEP JDX), has received approvals from the governments of Malaysia and Thailand, for the new Production Sharing Contract (PSC) for Block A-18-01 in the MalaysiaThailand Joint Development Area (MTJDA).

The parties also signed a Gas Sales Agreement (GSA) with Petroliam Nasional Berhad (PETRONAS) and PTT Public Company Limited, supporting the continued supply of natural gas from the block to both countries.

The exchange ceremony of the signed agreements on 14 September 2026 marks the culmination of extensive collaboration among the Malaysia-Thailand Joint Authority (MTJA), PC JDA and PTTEP JDX to establish a new contractual framework linking the continued development of the existing Block A-18 (beyond the expiry of the current PSC on 20 April 2029) while incorporating an adjacent exploration area with an additional resource potential under the new PSC.

With a 35-year term commencing from 1 January 2026, the new PSC for Block A-18-01 encompasses both the existing Block A-18 area and the additional new area, providing an integrated platform to sustain production, unlock further resource potential and optimise the block’s long-term development.

Director of PC JDA, Ainoor Abizzurin B Abdullah said, “The approval of the new PSC ushers in the next phase of development for Block A-18-01, reflecting the enduring resolve and strong collaboration between Malaysia and Thailand. As a key source of natural gas and condensate for both countries, this milestone reinforces our shared commitment to maximise value through enhanced resource monetisation and operational synergies”.

Spanning approximately 7,250 square kilometres, the MTJDA comprises Blocks A-18-01 and B-17-01, which have a combined natural gas production capacity of approximately 700 million standard cubic feet per day with equal distribution to Malaysia and Thailand.

Block A-18-01 comprises the Cakerawala, Bumi, Suriya, Bulan, South Bulan, Senja, East Bumi, Samudra and Wira gas fields, including the open area. Meanwhile,Block B-17-01 comprises the Muda, Tapi, Tanjung, Amarit, Jengka, Melati and Andalas gas fields.

The new PSC reinforces PETRONAS Carigali’s commitment to investing in strategic assets, and pursuing sustainable growth for regional energy security.

Issued by:

Channels and Media Relations
Group Strategic Relations & Communications
PETRONAS

SOURCE: PETRONAS

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CIMB wins Malaysia’s Best Retail, Investment and SME Banking Awards from Euromoney

 

Second from left: Jason Wong, Head of Strategic Initiatives and Projects, SME Banking Malaysia, CIMB Bank; Maznee Kamaruddin, Head, Equity Capital Markets & Syndicate, CIMB Investment Bank; Nor Masliza Sulaiman, Chief Executive Officer, CIMB Investment Bank; Haniz Nazlan, Chief Executive Officer, Group Consumer Banking, CIMB Group; and Daniel Cheong, Head of Consumer Banking Malaysia, CIMB Bank, celebrating CIMB’s three wins at the 2026 Euromoney Awards for Excellence.

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 14 (Bernama) -- CIMB Bank Berhad and CIMB Investment Bank (collectively “CIMB”) have been recognised for strong performance, innovation and customer impact, winning three key awards at the Euromoney Awards for Excellence 2026. CIMB was named Malaysia’s Best Retail Bank, Malaysia’s Best Digital Bank for SMEs and Malaysia’s Best Investment Bank.

These recognitions reflect CIMB’s continued focus on delivering customer-centric solutions through innovation, digital capabilities and deep market expertise across its retail, SME and investment banking businesses.

Novan Amirudin, Group Chief Executive Officer, CIMB Group, said, “These recognitions are a testament to the trust of our customers and the dedication of our teams across the Bank. They reaffirm CIMB’s purpose of advancing customers and society by making financial solutions more accessible, relevant and impactful for the people and businesses we serve.

We thank our clients and customers for the confidence they have placed in us over the years. As their needs continue to evolve, we remain committed to being a trusted partner supporting individuals in realising their aspirations and helping businesses achieve their growth ambitions through meaningful and lasting value creation.”

In retail banking, the Bank continued to deepen its diversified franchise through personalised propositions, digitally enabled journeys and stronger engagement across key customer segments. Revenue and profitability advanced during the year, supported by market share gains across auto finance, credit cards and retail deposits, alongside continued progress in digital sales and customer cross-sell. The Bank also continued to strengthen its wealth proposition, underpinned by differentiated investment solutions, broader product diversity, CIO-led advisory capabilities and enhanced digital wealth platforms. Momentum was particularly strong within the Preferred segment, reflecting deeper affluent engagement and the Bank's continued focus on expanding advisory-led and relationship-based wealth capabilities.

For SMEs, CIMB continued to advance digital banking with the launch of CIMB OCTO Biz, connecting account opening, financing and transaction banking through a seamless end-toend digital journey. The platform has onboarded more than 280,000 customers to date, offering real-time cash flow visibility, payments, foreign exchange, trade and financing services. The Bank also expanded financing access via embedded merchant financing with TNG eWallet, in addition to flexible financing through its SME FlexiCash, which uses account history and transaction behaviour to determine pre-qualified limits and link repayments to a proportion of revenue, better supporting businesses with uneven cashflows.

Meanwhile, CIMB Investment Bank’s leadership across Malaysia’s equity and debt capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, and bespoke financial advisory solutions, as well as its ability to execute complex transactions across multiple products, sectors and jurisdictions, further reinforced its position as a leading investment bank. In 2025, CIMB Investment Bank secured the #1 ranking in Malaysian equity and debt capital markets by deal value and share of wallet, while also capturing the top position in ASEAN equity and debt capital markets by deal value, with its execution of cross-border transactions reinforcing its position as a leading M&A and advisory house in ASEAN.

These three accolades reinforce CIMB’s brand promise, Moving You Forward, reflecting its continued focus on empowering customers and communities through accessible, inclusive and purpose-driven financial solutions.

For more than 30 years, Euromoney’s Awards for Excellence have recognised financial institutions that set the global standard in performance, innovation and client impact. The Awards for Excellence programme evaluates financial institutions through Euromoney’s benchmarking framework, using comparable metrics, structured submissions and a transparent research process to assess institutions against their peers.

SOURCE: CIMB Group Holdings Berhad

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CIMB Group Holdings Berhad
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MASAN HIGH-TECH MATERIALS EXPANDS GLOBAL TUNGSTEN BUSINESS

 

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 14 (Bernama) -- Masan High-Tech Materials (MSR), a Vietnamese strategic materials company, is expanding its tungsten business beyond its Nui Phao mine through resource development, processing capabilities and international partnerships.

In a statement, the company said its strategy is aimed at strengthening its position across the global tungsten value chain as supply chains are reshaped and demand for the strategic material grows. China currently accounts for about 82 per cent of global tungsten production.

MSR owns the Nui Phao polymetallic mine in Vietnam, one of the largest operating tungsten mines outside China, and has developed tungsten chemical processing capabilities through its Masan Tungsten Chemicals (MTC) business over a decade, with an annual capacity of approximately 9,345 tonnes.

The company is also advancing the potential addition of approximately 115 million tonnes of polymetallic tungsten resources at the Nui Phao Expansion and Nui Chiem areas, which could extend mining and processing operations by about 20 to 30 years, subject to the necessary procedures.

MSR is also expanding access to external feedstock to improve utilisation of its processing capacity. Its partnership with South Korea-based GB Innovation (GBI), which owns tungsten resources in South Korea, will enable MSR to process third-party feedstock in Vietnam into higher-value tungsten products.

The partnership supports plans to increase tungsten oxide production capacity to more than 8,000 tonnes of tungsten trioxide (WO₃) per year, while the company is also pursuing recycling initiatives to diversify its raw-material sources.

MSR recorded a net profit after tax before minority interest of 2,202 billion Vietnamese dong in the first six months of 2026, compared with a loss of 216 billion Vietnamese dong in the same period a year earlier. Net debt to earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) declined to 2.1 times at the end of the second quarter.

The company said it accounts for about 21 per cent of tungsten supply outside China, with more than US$700 million invested in its mining and processing infrastructure. (US$1 = RM4.06)

MSR said its tungsten chemicals, including ammonium paratungstate, yellow tungsten oxide and blue tungsten oxide, serve industrial and technology applications globally.

The company said the combination of long-life resources, advanced processing capabilities and international partnerships would enable it to participate across more stages of the tungsten value chain and support supply diversification beyond China.

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M Network to Participate in Malaysia Airports RFI for a New Airport Advertising Model

 

Lift Wrap in KLIA1 airport, Malaysia 

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 9 (Bernama) -- M Network has confirmed it will respond to the request for information issued by Malaysia Airports Holdings Berhad on the future of its airport advertising estate.

The RFI invites airport media operators and advertising concessionaires to submit views on how MAHB's advertising assets should be developed, with responses closing on 25 September.

Airports Covered in the Submission

M Network's response covers five airports spanning the peninsula and East Malaysia, reflecting the operator's intention to build a network rather than a single-terminal presence.

• KLIA Terminal 1

• KLIA Terminal 2

• Senai International Airport, Johor

• Kota Kinabalu International Airport, Sabah

• Penang International Airport

An Investment Commitment Above RM5 Million

M Network is prepared to invest more than RM5 million in the development of airport advertising infrastructure, covering both static and digital out-of-home formats across the network.

A portion of the digital inventory would be made available programmatically, giving advertisers automated access to airport screens alongside conventional booking channels.

Static and Digital Working Together

The proposal treats static and DOOH as complementary rather than competing formats. Large static structures anchor the environment while digital screens carry rotating, time-sensitive messaging.

Extending Coverage Beyond Departures

Airport advertising in Malaysia has traditionally concentrated on departure halls. M Network's approach places equal weight on arrivals and on the public concourse.

Arriving passengers represent a substantially underused audience. They move slowly through baggage reclaim and meeting areas, which delivers dwell time that departure gates cannot match.

•  Departures — existing high-value inventory, retained and upgraded

•  Arrivals — a largely untapped environment with strong natural dwell time

•  Public concourse — reaching greeters, drivers and non-travelling visitors

•  Landside and transit zones — connecting the terminal journey end to end

Raising the Ambience of the Terminal

M Network intends to introduce larger structures and panel formats across departures, arrivals and the concourse, improving the visual environment rather than simply adding advertising surfaces.

The objective is to bring Malaysian airport advertising to international standard, matching the scale and production quality found at leading regional and global hubs.

Technology in the Proposal

MAHB's RFI seeks input on measurement, automation and smart-airport integration. M Network's submission addresses these directly through its technology commitments.

• Omni-channel engagement linking airport screens to wider campaign activity

• Energy-efficient digital screen solutions aligned to sustainability requirements

• Programmatic DOOH capability on selected digital inventory

• Audience measurement supporting data-driven planning and reporting

About the RFI

MAHB manages 39 airports nationwide and one in Istanbul. Its review covers terminal buildings, flight information display systems, DOOH screens, trolleys and other airport infrastructure.

The operator has invited feedback on several delivery models, including a nationwide concession, regional clusters, minimum annual guarantees and revenue-sharing arrangements.

M Network will submit its response ahead of the closing date.

More about M Network: https://m.my

Source: advertising.com.my

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MOBILEBLASTER Launches Omni-Channel WhatsApp Marketing Through Official Meta Providers

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 9 (Bernama) -- MOBILEBLASTER is launching an omni-channel WhatsApp marketing platform built on official Meta provider infrastructure, giving brands a compliant route to customers on the channel Malaysians actually use daily.

What Launches First

The initial release focuses on the three capabilities that determine whether a WhatsApp campaign performs: who receives it, when it sends, and what happens afterwards.

Advanced blasting segmentation allows audiences to be built and filtered before a single message goes out, so a campaign reaches a defined segment rather than an undifferentiated contact list.

Automation blasting runs sequences on triggers and schedules rather than manual sends. That supports onboarding flows, reminders, follow-ups and re-engagement without daily intervention.

Reporting comes direct from the Meta platform. Delivery, read and engagement figures are drawn from source rather than estimated by an intermediary layer, and message templates are handled through the official approval process.

Why the Whatsapp Official Provider Route Matters

Unofficial WhatsApp blasting tools carry real risk. Numbers get restricted, messages fail silently, and there is no recourse when a campaign stops mid-flight.

Running through an official Meta provider means verified sender status, proper template approval, and delivery that can actually be audited when a client asks what happened.

AI Mobile Marketing That Has Already Matured

MOBILEBLASTER has been running AI in production since 2025. This is not a launch feature bolted on for the announcement but a layer that has been operating and improving for over a year.

Current applications include an AI bot handling first-line conversation and qualification, support channelling that routes enquiries to the right team automatically, and omni-channel detection that recognises the same customer across different platforms.

Beyond those, the system performs intent classification to separate sales enquiries from support and complaints, language detection that switches between Malay, English and Chinese mid-conversation, escalation triggers that pass frustrated or high-value conversations to a human agent, auto-tagging that enriches contact records for future segmentation, and after-hours coverage that maintains response times outside office hours.

Where AI Earns Its Place

The value is not novelty. It is response time at volume, consistent answers across agents, and conversation data that feeds back into segmentation for the next campaign.

Channels Beyond WhatsApp

WhatsApp is the starting point rather than the destination. The platform is being built to carry a single conversation across whichever channel the customer chooses, with Instagram, Messenger, Telegram, TikTok and Shopee planned to follow.

Coverage

The platform supports more than 36 countries, giving Malaysian brands with regional operations a single system rather than a separate tool in each market.

Certain capabilities remain subject to Meta approval, which is progressing. Brands can begin onboarding and building audiences while that clearance completes.

For brands already spending on WhatsApp through unofficial tools, the migration path is straightforward and removes the account risk that comes with the alternative.

MobileBlaster is an omni-channel messaging platform built on official Meta infrastructure, with AI-driven automation, segmentation and Meta-native campaign reporting.

Source: advertising.com.my

FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT:
MobileBlaster Sales & Support
Email: support@mobileblaster.com 

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CGN Unveils Advanced Nuclear Power Technology At Shenzhen Conference

 

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 10 (Bernama) -- China's Gen-III+ advanced nuclear power technology, "Hualong One" 2.0, was unveiled at the CGN 2026 Sustainable Development Conference in Shenzhen, attended by more than 200 representatives from 28 countries and regions.

Building on the existing defence-in-depth (DiD) safety architecture, "Hualong One" 2.0 comprehensively optimises 14 safety features, with notable improvements in nine key safety indicators.

According to a statement, the technology enables operators to remain without intervention for 72 hours post-accident and achieves seven-day accident self-sustaining capability.

It also simplifies auxiliary system configurations, with pipeline length reduced by approximately 31 per cent, process valves by about 25 per cent, nuclear island building volume by 21 per cent and nuclear island installation volume by around 33 per cent.

In addition, the unit automation operation ratio is increased by 66 per cent, enabling more precise system regulation and faster response, while key equipment features 100 per cent localisation capability.

Previously, CGN launched "Hualong One", China's Gen-III nuclear power technology with independent intellectual property rights. To date, 10 "Hualong One" units have been put into commercial operation both domestically and internationally.

On this basis, the "Hualong One" research and development team, in collaboration with industry partners, has completed nearly 100 design optimisations and iteratively rolled out "Hualong One" 2.0.

On July 31, the State Council Executive Meeting approved eight nuclear power units, among which Phase III of the Guangdong Taipingling Nuclear Power Plant of CGN has been designated as a demonstration project for "Hualong One" 2.0.

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