Bearing manufacturer Jarllytec said February 2026 will be a short-term operational trough as it ships new Chinese foldable smartphone hinges, with gradual recovery expected as shipments of Chinese smartphones and US-brand notebooks pick up.

TDK announced the establishment of its Asia-Pacific regional headquarters in Bangalore, India, marking the company’s fifth regional headquarters after Japan, Europe, the Americas, and China. A new legal entity, TDK Asia-Pacific, will work with TDK Singapore to manage more than 20 TDK entities across India, Southeast Asia, and Oceania. Those teams account for nearly 17% of TDK’s approximately 105,000 global employees.

Taiwan’s semiconductor industry is globally dominant, yet the very success of its production ecosystem is creating friction for the academic and research community that underpins it. Many universities across the island are expanding programs in electrical engineering, electronics, chemical engineering, and materials science in a bid to grow the pool of semiconductor talent. But with industry fabs running at full capacity, circuit designs submitted for educational and academic purposes are difficult to schedule into factory operations — leaving researchers competing for time on production lines built for commercial throughput.