India is attracting fresh technology investment as global companies expand AI, cloud and semiconductor commitments, reinforcing the country’s growing role as a strategic manufacturing and digital infrastructure hub.

South Korea’s top TV brands, Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics, are stepping up their use of AI to sharpen product differentiation as they face intense competition from Chinese TV makers. Besides higher hardware specs, better price competitiveness, display technology, and color accuracy, both companies are pushing interactive features and smarter connected applications to enhance personal experiences and build broader smart-home ecosystems. This shift is also changing what a TV is. It is moving beyond a traditional device for simply delivering audio and video content toward a platform that bundles entertainment, information, and AI interaction.

Apple approved OLED modules from Samsung Display and LG Display for the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max, signaling progress toward the company’s 2026 iPhone rollout, according to The Elec. The suppliers received final production approval for vertical OLED modules, and both are producing the modules on backend processing lines in Vietnam, industry sources said.

Taiwan Power reported a NT$9.0 billion loss in the first four months of 2026, executives said at the company’s shareholders meeting on June 26, attributing the shortfall to a spike in international energy prices following the outbreak of hostilities between the US and Iran. The utility said recent signs of a US-Iran de-escalation, along with the possibility of natural gas price cuts by CPC Corp, could help narrow the deficit, and it maintained a 2026 target to limit full-year losses to within NT$28.0 billion.