The year in 2022: Q322 - July to September 2022

Q3 technology milestones for 2022 include:

July 2022

- Micron ships the world's first 232-layer NAND, a component used for storage. At the time Scott DeBoer, Executive VP of technology and products, Micron explained: “Micron’s 232-layer NAND is a watershed moment for storage innovation as first proof of the capability to scale 3D NAND to more than 200 layers in production.”

- The Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB) and the Infocomm Media Development Authority of Singapore (IMDA) have launched a pilot Data Centre - Call for Application Exercise (DC-CFA) that will facilitate the building of new data centre capacity and allow for the calibrated and sustainable growth of data centres in Singapore.

"According to the 2022 SEC Newgate ESG Monitor, over half of Singapore’s consumers have stated that environmental issues remain top-of-mind, with 6.8 out of 10 consumers placing greater importance on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues influencing their day-to-day purchase decisions, thus, pushing businesses to incorporate ESG policies in their business models and investments. More recently, the spotlight has been on the digital carbon footprint which has been a by-product of digital transformation," said Conrad Tallariti, RVP for Sales, Asia, DoubleVerify.

"With consumers in Singapore placing more emphasis on addressing climate change, protecting the environment and reducing waste and recycling, it becomes imperative for advertisers and marketers to start factoring in the impact their campaigns have on the environment - especially since trust from consumers can be affected by the brand’s action."

In June, DoubleVerify partnered with Scope3 to provide customers with a campaign-based carbon footprint metric via its flagship service and analytics platform, DV Pinnacle.

- Musk announces that he will no longer buy Twitter.

- Xiaomi unveils the Xiaomi 12S Series “co-engineered with Leica”. The phone series is the first result of a partnership in imaging technology between Xiaomi and Leica.

August 2022

Source: Google. Scott Beaumont, President of Asia Pacific Google (left) with Lawrence Wong, Deputy PM, Singapore (right), at the unveiling of Google's new Asia headquarters.

- Google Singapore turns 15. The company moves to bigger premises in Singapore. Google Cloud partners with the Smart Nation and Digital Government Group to create novel artificial intelligence (AI) solutions that improve lives, public service capabilities, AI governance and ethics. A third data centre also goes live in Singapore.

- HP completes Poly acquisition.

- Microsoft Azure introduces confidential computing services. It already protected data in transit and data at rest. Confidential computing protects data in use. 

- The Seoul Metropolitan government launches the beta of its virtual municipal world, Metaverse Seoul.

Source: Seoul Metropolitan government. People can enter Metaverse Seoul with a custom avatar (left). An avatar at the virtual Seoul Plaza (right).

- Xiaomi debuts CyberOne, its first humanoid robot.

September 2022

- Amazon announces the company’s first three large-scale projects in India. All three are solar projects in Rajasthan.

- Google completes its acquisition of Mandiant.

- NVIDIA announces DLSS 3, a performance multiplier for games that's AI-powered. The company also unveils the new NVIDIA Ada Lovelace architecture, which is capable of delivering a new level of real-time rendering, graphics and AI.

- OpenAI opens its DALL·E artificial intelligence (AI) to the public. The software can be prompted to create all kinds of art. The ability to create quality art becomes a major thread in applied AI, a key trend in the McKinsey Technology Trends Outlook 2022. The same month, Twitter erupts with the news that an AI has won the fine arts competition at the Colorado State Fair.

- ServiceNow releases the Now Platform Tokyo release, the latest iteration of its flagship platform.

- Clarence Chan and Joanne Tham hold the first phygital wedding in real life at the Alkaff Mansion, and also at a virtual replica in The Sandbox, a virtual world.

Source: Smobler Studios. Smobler Studios creates the first metaverse wedding set in Singapore's Alkaff Mansion in The Sandbox.

"This year, Singapore held the first-ever phygital wedding in the metaverse, demonstrating how the digital revolution is fuelling innovation and providing humanity with more technological options than ever before," said Gary Chua, COO, Asia & Japan, Syniti.

Source: Syniti. Chua.

"The metaverse has recently become one of the technology world's most fascinating topics of discussion. Even though the metaverse is still evolving, CIOs and data leaders cannot deny that we live in the 'dataverse', a world where data is even more pervasive than we know it to be. In the years to come, the metaverse will provide more options for interactive experiences and as such will exponentially grow our data consumption.

"Modern data management solutions must therefore continue to advance in order to survive and thrive in the dataverse. For companies to keep pace with the rate of innovation and data expansion, an effective data management solution is vital to ensure quality data, which is needed to drive better business decisions and improve customer experiences."

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