Naver, South Korea's leading internet company, is set to launch ThingsBook, a new social networking platform targeting the North American market. Unlike Instagram and other image-driven platforms, ThingsBook will center on user-generated content (UGC) organized around personal interests, combining the longform depth of Naver Blog with a more curated, hobby-based feed

Yageo, Taiwan's leading passive component manufacturer, said its third meeting with Japan's Shibaura Electronics concluded successfully in Taipei, marking a key step in Yageo's ongoing tender offer for the NTC thermistor specialist

Apple held its ground in India's recovering smartphone market in the second quarter of 2025, ranking sixth overall. The iPhone 16 series accounted for over half of its shipments, while continued demand for older models helped Apple navigate a competitive landscape and weak organic demand across the industry

Despite US tariffs on Indonesian goods, Indonesia is negotiating lower duties by offering significant benefits to US tech firms, especially Apple and Google

Competition in bonding equipment for the high bandwidth memory (HBM) market is intensifying, especially for the new generation of hybrid bonding (HB) technology. Following the current market leader, Hanmi Semiconductor, several Korean firms have also made their competition debut. However, it is very challenging for new players to gain a foothold in this sector

Chinese memory giant CXMT is actively advancing its DDR5 and LPDDR5 DRAM process upgrades. According to supply chain sources, although CXMT has yet to enter mass production, recent samples have passed testing with quality nearly matching that of Nanya. This development has raised concerns among Taiwanese manufacturers, as CXMT is mobilizing nationwide resources to push for mass production. This aggressive move also poses a potential threat to international manufacturers, potentially disrupting the existing DDR5 industry landscape

South Korea's ambitions to build a self-sufficient drone supply chain have hit a critical bottleneck just three months after China imposed export controls on seven rare earth elements in April 2025. The curbs have complicated efforts to produce key components domestically, raising concerns over the feasibility of Seoul's drone localization strategy

Qualcomm Technologies showcased its latest spatial computing innovations during the Snapdragon for India – XR Day event held on July 21, 2025, in New Delhi, reaffirming its confidence in smart glasses as the next major consumer tech platform. With a focus on India's tech-savvy population and booming 5G ecosystem, Qualcomm aims to lead the XR revolution in the region

Reliance Industries, led by billionaire Mukesh Ambani, expects its much-anticipated clean energy gigafactories in Jamnagar, Gujarat, to become operational over the next four to six quarters

China's top memory chipmakers, ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) and Yangtze Memory Technology Corp. (YMTC), have nearly doubled their output in just over a year. Their rapid expansion is raising alarm in South Korea, where industry leaders worry that China's growing presence could upend the global memory market and threaten the dominance of Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix

A recent surge in the cost of Chinese-made drone components has reignited concerns in South Korea over its overwhelming reliance on China for critical unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) parts. South Korea is accelerating efforts to boost domestic manufacturing capabilities and enhance collaboration with the US to fortify its drone industry and mitigate strategic risks

China is accelerating its deployment of RISC-V architecture as US-China tech decoupling intensifies, aiming to build a fully autonomous semiconductor supply chain. At the 5th RISC-V Summit China in Shanghai, Alibaba's DAMO Academy introduced new advances in its high-performance RISC-V platform under the XuanTie brand. Concurrently, the Beijing Institute of Open Source Chip (BOSC) confirmed system-level validation of its third-generation 16-core RISC-V processor, Kunminghu (Kunming Lake)

Synopsys is playing a key role in India's growing semiconductor ambitions, partnering closely with Tata Electronics to support what may become the world's first AI-based semiconductor foundry at Dholera in Gujarat

Drones have become a dominant force on the battlefield in the Russia-Ukraine conflict, highlighted by Ukraine's successful strikes on Russian air bases. The impact of these developments extends well beyond military engagements, disrupting global supply chains and accelerating a broader shift away from components manufactured in China

South Korea's Naver Corporation is teaming up with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to develop a bipedal humanoid robot, highlighting the nation's accelerating push into physical AI. With global competition in humanoid robotics intensifying, the Naver-MIT partnership is seen as a strategic bid to position South Korea at the forefront of next-generation robotics