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Tuesday 28 April 2026
Nvidia signs record Bengaluru office lease as India AI push accelerates
Nvidia has signed a 10-year lease for approximately 760,000 square feet of office space in Bengaluru, marking the largest single-tenant office commitment in India to date. The space,...
Tuesday 28 April 2026
Indian startup targets AI inference opportunity with full-stack compute platform
While global AI infrastructure investment remains concentrated around massive GPU clusters for training frontier models, Indian startup Turiyam.ai is betting on a different commercial...
Tuesday 28 April 2026
LG reportedly plans to expand its India manufacturing footprint
New Daily reports that LG Electronics has decided to expand its manufacturing footprint in India, with a major investment of about KRW1.4 trillion (approximately US$1.0 billion)...
Tuesday 28 April 2026
Chinese automakers use supply chain shifts to bypass US trade barriers
Faced with escalating trade barriers from the US, Chinese automakers are adopting a "buffer route" strategy by using Canada and Mexico as transit points to enter the US market, while...
Monday 27 April 2026
HCL-Foxconn JV taps Taiwan's CTCI to build India OSAT facility
The HCL-Foxconn joint venture has selected Taiwan-based engineering firm CTCI as the engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) partner for its upcoming outsourced semiconductor...
Monday 27 April 2026
Foxconn's 48% export surge cements India's role in Apple's supply chain
India's smartphone manufacturing expanded 8% year on year in 2025, driven by a 28% surge in exports and modest domestic sell-in growth of 1%, according to Counterpoint Research. Exports...
Monday 27 April 2026
India roundup: Micron ramp, Dholera SEZ push India toward full-stack chip manufacturing

India is accelerating its semiconductor ambitions, from Micron Technology's Sanand ramp to new...

Monday 27 April 2026
Tata's India chip fab faces leadership churn and engineering hurdles amid uneven but continuing progress
Tata Electronics' flagship semiconductor fabrication project in Dholera, Gujarat—long viewed as India's most ambitious attempt to build a domestic chip manufacturing ecosystem—continues...
Saturday 25 April 2026
India's solar growth faces policy tension between local manufacturing push and rapid capacity expansion
India's push to localize solar manufacturing while rapidly expanding capacity is creating a structural bottleneck, as stricter domestic sourcing rules risk constraining supply just...
Friday 24 April 2026
Apple faces US$38B antitrust fine in India, eyes Trump card for relief
Apple faces a potential US$38 billion antitrust fine in India as Tim Cook prepares to hand leadership to John Ternus, raising both legal and business implications for the company and...
Thursday 23 April 2026
Shining Victory wins first GM North America series production contract for pickup and SUV models
Shining Victory Motor Electronics secured a General Motors contract to supply components for pickup trucks and SUVs in the US starting from the first quarter of 2026, marking its North...
Thursday 23 April 2026
IndieSemiC partners with Nordic on wireless modules as India expands design-led semiconductor push
IndieSemiC, an Indian semiconductor and chip design company, has partnered with Nordic Semiconductor to design and commercialize wireless modules for connected devices, as Indian firms...
Wednesday 22 April 2026
Naver, TCS partner on AI and cloud in India during Korea-India summit
Naver has signed a strategic partnership with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) to jointly develop artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud services in India, marking one of the cooperation...
Wednesday 22 April 2026
Micron's Sanand ramp shifts India chip debate from milestone to manufacturing system
Micron Technology's Sanand assembly, test, marking, and packaging plant has given India something it lacked until recently: a live semiconductor manufacturing operation with global...
Tuesday 21 April 2026
India and Korea deepen strategic cooperation across technology, energy, and sustainability
The state visit of South Korea President Lee Jae-Myung to India on April 20, 2026, marked a broad effort by both countries to expand cooperation across trade, technology, and strategic...