The Southeast Asia 500 The fastest growing company can thank the AI boom for the rapid climb. Generative AI has controlled an investment thrust in data centers that provide the infrastructure for storage, processing and distribution of data for the execution of AI applications.
Malaysia has received a significant share of this investment. put on Multi-billion offers from Google, Oracle and Microsoft in the past 18 months.
And part of this hype has it chic Nation gateA provider of Electronics Manufacturing Services.
The company achieved sales of 5.27 billion Malaysian ring git ($ 1.6 billion) last year. He has high enough to place it in 243th place in Southeast Asia.
Nation gate also made profits of 342 million US dollars, a respectable increase of 163% compared to the previous year.
The company’s data segment has achieved a large part of its sales and contributed 88% this year, compared to 17% in 2023. Nation gate also works with the automotive and telecommunications sector.
More than half of the Nation Gate revenue comes from Malaysia; Another third comes from Singapore. The two countries are probably Southeast Asia’s data center hubs.
One of the most important Nationalgate companies is the compilation of AI products. And it has an important advantage in this room like Nvidia Only original equipment manufacturing partners in Southeast Asia. This means that Nationalgate is the only company in the region that compiled the high-ranking graphics processing units (GPUS) from NVIDIA into AI servers. The Nvidia GPUs are mostly used in high-performance AI applications.
Nation gate sees in the AI ”immense potential” and that his entry into the AI server manufacturer will help to use the annual growth of double numbers in the investments in data center in Southeast Asia and worldwide.
But the AI boom also brings risks.
Both Malaysia and Singapore were due to allegations that both countries are channels for controlled US chips to find their way to China. In particular, US officials report whether Deepseek, the Chinese KI startup, which US export control measures have bypassed in Singapore with the help of third parties.
In March, K Shanmugam, Singapore’s law and interior matters, ministers, said Server contained chips controlled under US export controls seemed to be sent to Malaysia. According to this claim that Tengku Zafrul Abdul Aziz, said the Malaysia Minister of Commerce, that the officials had examined and swore to take the necessary measures against local companies that were fraud.
In a broader sense, the countries in Southeast Asia were exposed to possible US rules that would be limited to the number of AI chips they could buy. (The Trump administration scraped this proposal last month.)
Nationalgate distanced itself from the topic and clarified that it was not involved in the investigation. But investors are still frightened. The National Gate shares have decreased by around 40% this year.
