The Economic Times reported that Applied Materials is set to establish a cutting-edge Innovation Center for Semiconductor Manufacturing (ICSM) in Bengaluru, India, with the potential to catalyze over US$2 billion in future investments, according to Suraj Rengarajan, managing director and head of the semiconductor products group at Applied Materials India. His remarks follow the Karnataka government’s recent approval of three semiconductor projects, including Applied’s proposal.

Just as US and Chinese officials resumed trade negotiations in London, China’s state-run People’s Daily did something unusual: it ran a rare front-page interview with Huawei’s founder, Zhengfei Ren. Although a rather peculiar timing, but not likely a coincidence.

Techman Robot expects significant growth as the Trump administration’s push for domestic manufacturing drives global electronics companies to relocate operations to the US, boosting automation demand, Chairman Shih-Chih Ho said.