HCLTech has signed a Global Premier Partnership with Anthropic, tying one of India's largest IT services companies more closely to an AI developer that has spent 2026 building out its India presence, even as HCLTech separately moves to own AI computing capacity at home.
India's outsourced semiconductor assembly and test (OSAT) sector has moved from inaugurations to its first export shipments. The challenge now is scale. The new plants are small, still lean on foreign engineers and partners, and the government's second subsidy round offers less support for conventional packaging than the first. Japanese chipmakers are among the earliest customers, but they are spreading work across several Indian partners rather than building their own plants.
India-based engineering firm Sasken Technologies plans to license company-owned semiconductor interconnect intellectual property (IP) to multiple customers, marking an effort to move beyond customer-specific chip engineering work toward a reusable IP business model.
Taiwan's Gemtek Technology is set to provide the optical know-how behind Dixon Technologies' move into the data center market. The Indian contract manufacturer signed a joint venture agreement with Gemtek on October 7 to make optical transceivers in India and said in a filing with the BSE and the National Stock Exchange of India that the deal is expected to let it enter the data center, telecom, and optical-connectivity ecosystem by combining its large-scale manufacturing with Gemtek's expertise in high-speed optical modules, telecom infrastructure, and networking.
Acer's subsidiary Acerpure reported record quarterly and nine-month revenue for 3Q26, driven by strong demand for air conditioners in India and Indonesia and continued growth in its TV business in India. The company said its overseas home-appliance expansion is gaining traction across Southeast Asia.
India is joining the top tier of Asia Pacific data center markets with a stock of facilities designed for a fraction of the power AI hardware draws. That gap is turning the country's build-out into a race for liquid cooling, power equipment, and high-density designs, not just floor space.
Dassault Systèmes is pitching its virtual twin software as the link between India's chip design base and the factories and packaging plants now being built under the country's semiconductor mission. The French industrial software company is offering tools that simulate production before anything is built, as the government's Semicon 2.0 program widens support beyond fabrication to design, research, and talent.
India's young chip industry is becoming a contest among the world's largest semiconductor equipment makers, with Canon the latest to declare its interest. The race remains at an early, positioning stage, however, and has so far produced few confirmed orders.
AM Intelligence (AMI) is widening its AI infrastructure push in India and Malaysia, adding to a regional buildout that could matter well beyond Asia. The latest orders expand access to frontier computing for cloud providers and developers, while signaling a shift in global AI capacity toward new hubs outside North America.
Samsung Electronics says its India operations, which it set up in 1995, have evolved from a manufacturing base into a global innovation hub. The South Korean company is pitching the country as a source of technology for its worldwide business, rather than only as a market and production base.
NTT Data expects India to contribute a larger share of its global artificial intelligence (AI) business than it does of its overall IT services business, as the Japanese company pushes ahead with a three-year investment program in the country focused on data centers.
Micronex Technology plans to build a semiconductor lead-frame factory in Sanand, Gujarat, seeking to localize a packaging component as India expands its chip assembly and testing industry. The startup's agreement with Kaynes Semicon connects the proposed plant to Gujarat's growing semiconductor ecosystem, while similar supplier partnerships elsewhere point to a wider push for domestic materials and components.
India is expanding its role across semiconductors, electronics and digital services, as new investment rules, supply-chain localization and Apple initiatives highlight both the country's progress and remaining constraints.
The global solar module market is undergoing a significant geographic shift in 2026. China remains the world's largest source of module demand, but its share of global shipments is set to fall below 40%, down 12 percentage points year-over-year, while Europe and India continue to gain ground.
Apple's entry into India's payments market gives its device users a new way to pay by card, but its initial reach will depend on bank and merchant integrations in a country where a domestic real-time system already dominates digital transactions. The service launched on September 30 for eligible Axis Bank Visa and Mastercard credit cardholders, placing Apple's wallet alongside, rather than replacing, India's Unified Payments Interface (UPI).
India's chip push is drawing the materials layer of the supply chain onshore. With Tata Electronics' Dholera fab and a cluster of packaging plants in Sanand under way, suppliers of industrial gases, wet chemicals, and photoresists from the US, Japan, and South Korea are moving to secure positions close to their future customers in Gujarat.
