Consumer electronics, smart devices and the brands winning Asian shelves.
Appliance manufacturers across India are redesigning cooling lines and substituting raw materials after input cost inflation pushed operating margins down into single digits.
Bing Lee and The Natural Grocery Company are replacing paper price tags with digital shelf displays across their Australian store networks.
Apple secured a record 20 per cent global June quarter share while Chinese Android makers pulled back from entry-level handsets to manage component costs.
Hardware chief John Ternus takes charge with a 3 million dollar base salary as the tech giant targets making most US-bound iPhones in India by the end of 2026.
Individual investors placed 5.98 trillion yuan in orders for the AI chipmaker as it raised 6.12 billion yuan on Shanghai’s STAR Market.
Nvidia procures 94.8 billion dollars annually in Taiwan while TSMC expands foundries across the US, Japan and Germany.
The search giant will expand its research and development footprint in Taiwan by 60 per cent to support a faster custom silicon release cadence.
Hardware head John Ternus will take the helm of the US$4.5 trillion company as Tim Cook transitions to executive chairman after 15 years leading Apple.
The Chinese display maker claims its South Korean rival undercut prices by rebranding standard LED screens to win back lost US market share.
The administration plans to back 10 national AI projects next year while building local computing capacity of 10,000 GPUs through private investment.
Regional spending on store and warehouse automation is expanding at a 13.8 percent annual rate, outpacing the global average as merchants counter rising wage costs.
The manufacturing contract covers Xiaomi’s flagship Xring O3 mobile processor alongside custom silicon for autonomous driving and consumer AI devices.
A delegation of Canadian hardware and software specialists pitched proprietary design, metrology and lithography tools to Taiwanese manufacturers ahead of SEMICON Taiwan.
Foldable handset shipments hit 190,000 units in the first quarter of 2026, posting triple-digit annual growth despite a flat broader market.
Private-label brand Transform-U surged to eight per cent of total sales as the personal grooming specialist expanded its store footprint to 127 locations.
A magnitude 7.1 earthquake in Kumamoto and severe flooding in Chiba prompted the Cabinet Office to flag supply chain risks while keeping consumer spending estimates steady.
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