Consumer Tech

Apple has unveiled the $1,999 iPhone Duo, its first foldable handset, with a 7.6-inch inner display, A20 Pro chip and October 23 release.

Vietnam's Ministry of Industry and Trade suggested that rare earth minerals stay off the list of minerals permitted for export in the current period, without details of the length of the "current period."

Vietnam is calling for development of a home-grown fleet of 40 self-driving robots to sweep its city streets, the first project put out for tender by the national science fund Nafosted under a program to build strategic technologies.

ShunSin Technology Holdings, a subsidiary of Taiwan's electronic manufacturer Foxconn, will invest up to $65 million to set up bumping and redistribution-layer process production lines at its Vietnam subsidiary, funded through a capital injection of the same amount.

The United States-based Apple will open its Apple Education Hub, its first Vietnam education center, to train employees of its supplier companies, with courses starting this autumn through a partnership with Hanoi University of Science and Technology.

China's electronics group TCL plans to raise its total investment in Vietnam to $590 million by 2027, from $310 million at the moment, the Vietnamese government said Wednesday, regarding at meeting between TCL leadership and Deputy Prime Minister Pham Gia Tuc.

South Korea's chaebol Samsung Electronics posted consolidated revenue of $205.6 billion for the first half of 2026, up 98.7 percent year on year, according to its semi-annual reported filed with the Korea Exchange (KRX).

Taiwan's Hon Hai Precision Industry, known globally as Foxconn, will invest $265 million more into its manufacturing operations in Vietnam and $57 million more in Singapore, according to filings with the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TWSE) dated August 12-18.

Singapore's Competition and Consumer Commission (CCS) has given its nods to Texas Instruments' proposed $7.5 billion acquisition of fellow US chipmaker Silicon Laboratories, finding that the deal poses no substantial lessening of competition in Singapore or globally.

Taiwan's Foxconn has injected an additional $62 million into its subsidiary in Quang Ninh province, northern Vietnam and added a new business activity of manufacturing electric vehicle (EV) charging stations.