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• Apple leases space in Mumbai’s Borivali suburb for fourth India store

  The registration for the agreement was concluded on May 28, showed the documents accessed through realty data analytic firm CRE Matrix.

  

• CG Power’s chip plans rocked by turmoil at wafer company Wolfspeed

  Since Renesas has already made advance payments under the contract, it risks a financial setback besides supply disruptions. CG Power's OSAT facility, which was betting on demand from Renesas, may face headwinds as a result, experts explained.

  

• Indian electronics companies face delays on Chinese JV approvals

  Chinese partners in existing JVs, which need government clearance, are wary of this impacting operations that began before Operation Sindoor, which followed the Kashmir terrorist attack. On Monday, a top executive at a leading Indian electronics contract manufacturer rushed to meet his Chinese partners.

  

• Apple gives Tata India iPhone repair business as partnership expands

  As Apple looks beyond China for manufacturing, Tata has fast emerged as its key supplier and already assembles iPhones for local and foreign markets at three facilities in south India, with one of them also making some iPhone components.

  

• Centre eases SEZ norms in big push to semiconductors, electronic parts

  According to a gazette notification issued by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, the minimum land requirement for factories in SEZs exclusively meant for making semiconductors or electronic components has been reduced to 10 hectares from 50 hectares required earlier.

  

• Trump renegotiating Biden-era Chips Act grants, Lutnick says

  The grants, while signed, had only just begun to be disbursed by the time Biden left office. The details of those plans are not public but the money is meant to be disbursed as companies make progress toward their pledged plant expansions.

  

• Counterpoint Research cuts 2025 global smartphone shipment growth amid tariff uncertainty

  The downgrade signals challenges for manufacturers that already face weakening sales amid heightened geopolitical tensions and escalating tariff disputes.

  

• Silicon Labs, Wirepas ship 10 mn wireless chipsets for industrial IoT, primarily in India

  In December 2024, the companies said 4 million smart electric meters using Wirepas Mesh software had been deployed in India, built on the sub-GHz FG13 and FG23 platforms, helping the country meet the goals of its Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) initiative.

  

• Apple can inch toward India and Vietnam, but it can’t leave China, with or without tariffs

  But the reality is that Trump’s nagging will never be able to recreate the ecosystem that local governments in China, with the help of Taiwanese suppliers such as Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., created to lure Apple.

  

• Tecno India says building components ecosystem with Dixon, to expand R&D focus

  The Central government, earlier this year, notified the electronics components manufacturing scheme (ECMS) with an outlay of over ₹23,000-crore.

  

• Broadcom ships latest networking chip to speed AI

  Broadcom's networking chips have gained increased importance because of AI. When constructing the necessary data centers for AI applications, infrastructure builders must string together hundreds or thousands of chips.