Worldwide semiconductor manufacturing equipment sales rose 15% to a record US$135.1 billion in 2025 from US$117.1 billion a year earlier, driven by investment in advanced logic, memory, and AI-related capacity expansion, SEMI, the global semiconductor industry association, said

India is advancing its semiconductor ecosystem via design alliances and acquisitions, while recalibrating its China ties. IndieSemiC and Kaynes target local chip gaps despite uncertain demand, and Cyient's Kinetic deal boosts power IC capabilities. Meanwhile, security-driven supplier shifts and new export opportunities highlight India's evolving strategic and industrial positioning

US lawmakers from both parties have recently introduced a new bill aimed at further restricting China's access to advanced semiconductor manufacturing equipment. The move seeks to strengthen efforts to curb China's ambitions in semiconductor development and to achieve closer alignment with allies such as the Netherlands and Japan on export controls

Hwatsing Technology has emerged as one of China's most prominent domestic suppliers of chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) equipment, a critical process step in advanced chip manufacturing

At GITEX AI Asia, AdaniConneX CEO Jeyakumar Janakaraj said the company is building toward gigawatt-scale data center capacity in India, as demand for artificial intelligence infrastructure accelerates across the region

SZ DJI Technology founder Frank Wang gave his first interview to Chinese online media in a decade, outlining a shift behind the company's global leadership—from a product-driven model toward a dual focus on products and management