Dagang NeXchange Berhad Annual Report 2025

All three cross-layer strategies are summarised in the chart below, which highlights DNeX’s current position within the AI Sovereignty Infrastructure Stack and the Group’s intended path forward. The Building & Power Foundation The Memory & Filing Cabinets Storage Systems The Data Highways Network Infrastructure The Traffic Controller Software Orchestration The Control Room Monitoring & Management The Locks & Alarms Security & Compliance The AI Apps Users See Applications & Workloads The Engine (The GPUs) Compute Hardware L 1 L 2 L 4 L 5 L 6 L 7 L 8 L 3 Land, buildings, electricity and cooling (Independent Power Producer, local contractors, Renewable Energy). Where all data lives. Drives from the global memory semiconductor industry, but the data itself never leaves Malaysia. Malaysian-operated cables and switches. Hardware from the likes of global hardware network provider but routing and rules controlled locally. Local software decides where each AI job runs – uses open-source tools, not tied to any foreign cloud. Local operators run Monitoring, control & governance, with zero external telemetry to foreign networks. Malaysian security teams watch every door 24/7. Audit logs stay in-country – no foreign backdoor. Chatbots, copilots and AI tools for Malaysian agencies and businesses – all data stays on home soil. The chips that actually run AI. Must come from global graphics processing unit (“GPU”) maker – no local maker. We run them, we just don’t make them. Through PING and OGPC, DNeX intends to play a larger role in the country’s energy sector. This includes supplying key feedstock to independent power producers, providing relevant engineering solutions, provision of equipment and maintenance and even exploring entry into electricity generation. SilTerra, through its offerings in Silicon Photonics and CMOS logic, serves this category by supporting key players that provide storage systems, compute hardware and network infrastructure. DNeX, through its newly established Innovation Fund aims to further strengthen its role in this space by exploring partnerships and investment opportunities. These efforts are intended to increase both the production volume and value of SilTerra, while simultaneously improving the supply chain production of key semiconductor components in Malaysia. As sovereign cloud is physically disconnected from the internet (“air-gapped”), standard public cloud orchestration, monitoring and cybersecurity tools are insufficient. DNeX IT is focused on developing advanced software capabilities designed to operate within highly secure, isolated, and air-gapped environments. These include solutions such as a Unified Workload Scheduler, Zero Trust Architecture (“ZTA”), Offline Lifecycle Management, Secure Patch and Update Orchestration, Air-Gapped Data Replication and Synchronisation, each tailored to address the unique constraints of restricted, high-security operating environments. STRATEGIC REVIEW 49 OPERATIONAL REVIEW SUSTAINABILITY STATEMENT GOVERNANCE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS SHAREHOLDERS’ INFORMATION INTELLIGENCE POWERING

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