Chinese AI chipmaker Enflame will list on the STAR Market of the Shanghai Stock Exchange on September 11, 2026, becoming the last of China's "four little GPU dragons" to go public. Enflame is grouped with Moore Threads, MetaX, and Biren Technology as China's "four little GPU dragons," and with Enflame's listing, all four companies will have entered the capital market.

Germany's Elmos Semiconductor has secured wafer capacity from South Korea's SK keyfoundry through 2037, expanding an 18-year manufacturing relationship to 130nm technology as supply conditions tighten across parts of the 8-inch foundry market.

DeepSeek has opened roughly 150 positions in a new hiring round focused almost entirely on engineering and infrastructure, pointing to a shift from pure model development toward the systems needed to support larger-scale AI services, agents, and computing workloads.

Alkaidsemi (Shanghai) Technologies Corporation has introduced a 1,200 V silicon carbide superjunction MOSFET that it describes as the world's first SiC superjunction MOSFET product. Project leader Hao Yue said it is among the first globally to complete product validation, positioning the company for emerging demand from AI server power supplies and high-voltage direct-current data center architectures.

China's leading DRAM maker ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) has begun trial production of HBM3, but its initial yield has reportedly remained around 25%, highlighting the difficulty of translating its progress in conventional DRAM into high-performance AI memory.