YMTC and CXMT have returned to Washington's Chinese Military Companies list, placing China's two leading memory chipmakers back at the center of US scrutiny over semiconductors, military-civil fusion, and China's technology supply chain

Chinese artificial-intelligence (AI) startup StepFun is preparing to file for a Hong Kong initial public offering as early as Monday, according to people familiar with the matter, in what could become one of the city's largest technology listings in recent years

Samsung Electronics' foundry business may return to profit as early as the third quarter of 2026, ahead of its previous target of late 2026 to 2027, as improving yields, larger orders, and stronger demand for high-bandwidth memory base dies lift utilization, according to Korean media reports

Huawei Developer Conference (HDC) 2026 is set to open on June 12 at Songshan Lake in Dongguan, with HarmonyOS and frontier AI technologies taking center stage. Beyond updates to the HarmonyOS ecosystem, the market is also watching AI agents as a key test of Huawei's broader AI roadmap

The US Department of Defense has updated its list of companies identified as Chinese military companies operating in the US, adding a wide range of technology, telecom, semiconductor, drone, and artificial intelligence firms

Tencent is sharpening a dual-track AI chip strategy, combining self-developed semiconductors for its own business workloads with deeper partnerships across China's domestic AI computing supply chain

Nvidia's multiyear technology partnership with SK Hynix could reinforce the South Korean chipmaker's role in the AI memory supply chain, raising pressure on Samsung Electronics and Micron Technology as the memory market enters one of its strongest upcycles in years

Apple unveiled a sweeping overhaul of its artificial intelligence offering at WWDC 2026 on June 8, but two of its most important markets — China and the EU — will not receive the full suite of new features at launch. The reasons differ significantly between the two regions, and industry watchers say the gap poses a strategic risk for a company whose AI pitch depends on delivering a consistent, platform-wide experience

Yangtze Memory Technologies Co. (YMTC) is bringing its consumer SSD brand ZHITAI back to South Korea after a four-year absence, as major memory makers devote more resources to high-bandwidth memory and enterprise storage

Huawei's chip design arm HiSilicon Technologies has reportedly raised prices for some products, drawing market attention as China's semiconductor sector shows signs of recovery after a prolonged downturn

LG Innotek is expanding semiconductor substrate production in Vietnam as rising demand for server components reshapes capacity across the substrate industry, fueling expectations that supply of RF-SiP substrates used in premium smartphones could tighten

China is accelerating its push into space-based computing, betting that the next frontier of artificial intelligence infrastructure may lie beyond Earth

China's electric vehicles have become larger, heavier, and increasingly luxurious over the past decade. Now, regulators are signaling that the industry's era of unchecked expansion may be coming to an end

Nvidia and Microsoft have teamed up to launch RTX Spark, an AI PC superchip that could reshape personal computer architecture and intensify competition for AI leadership, according to South Korean media, including Edaily. The partnership is also raising concerns in South Korea about its role in the next phase of the global semiconductor and AI market