LCD TV panel prices fell across the board in July and have extended their decline in August as high utilization at makers’ high-generation lines has kept the supply and demand situation from improving, even as brands stepped up procurement for the traditional third-quarter stocking season. Industry sources said the sector is pursuing a strategy of “trading volume for price,” with Black Friday and Single’s Day demand failing to stop the slide.

LinkCom Manufacturing said its July revenue fell from a year earlier because tight supplies of memory, passive components, and other key parts pushed up prices and prompted some networking customers to adjust procurement and delivery schedules for large projects. The magnetic components maker said order intake and deliveries remained steady, and July sales still ranked as the second-highest for the same month in company history.

Bureau 1440’s Rassvet constellation initiative has been gaining industry-wide attention for emerging as a comparative presence to Russia’s Starlink, although it is currently nowhere near Starlink in constellation size or continuous global service.

DeepSeek has invested CNY140.8 million (approx. US$20.8 million) in Unitree’s Shanghai IPO and agreed to jointly develop AI models for humanoid robots, linking one of China’s highest-profile AI developers with the country’s leading robotics contender at a critical stage of Unitree’s public-market debut.

India is accelerating its bid to build a broader semiconductor and electronics ecosystem, combining new packaging capacity, longer-term tax incentives and deeper localization with efforts to expand its chip workforce and sovereign AI capabilities. Investments by ASIP, Dixon, Rashi and global technology partners highlight a strategy increasingly focused on higher-value manufacturing.

Kinko Optical reported July consolidated revenue of NT$524 million, the highest level in nearly 12 years, as Taiwan’s optical industry entered its peak season. The result rose 93.16% from the same month a year earlier and 21.17% from the previous month.