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Tuesday 9 June 2026
Huawei tests AI agents at HDC 2026 after OpenClaw hype loses steam
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
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Tuesday 9 June 2026
Alibaba puts CEO directly in charge of new unit as AI model race turns commercial

Alibaba Group Holding has created a new artificial intelligence unit called Token Foundry, putting it directly under CEO Eddie Wu as the Chinese technology giant further consolidates its model-development teams and pushes AI applications toward commercialization

Tuesday 9 June 2026
Tencent takes dual-track AI chip route with Canghai V2 and domestic partnerships
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
Tuesday 9 June 2026
YMTC returns to South Korea's consumer SSD market after four-year absence
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
Tuesday 9 June 2026
HiSilicon chip price hikes put China's AI compute supply chain back in focus
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
Tuesday 9 June 2026
LG Innotek expands Vietnam substrate plant as AI servers strain RF-SiP supply
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
Monday 8 June 2026
Beijing backs orbital computing in bid for AI leadership
China is accelerating its push into space-based computing, betting that the next frontier of artificial intelligence infrastructure may lie beyond Earth
Monday 8 June 2026
China introduces energy standards to curb growing EV size and weight
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
Monday 8 June 2026
Nvidia-Microsoft AI PC alliance raises fears of South Korea being sidelined in next AI era
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
Monday 8 June 2026
Dreame under scrutiny for breakneck expansion pace and state-owned funding
A city in China has begun investigating the connections between its local companies and Dreame Technology, a Chinese company known for its robot vacuum cleaners that has reportedly spun off nearly 1000 affiliated companies within 18 months. The move follows a wave of online scrutiny over Dreame's business model, particularly its reliance on local state-owned funding while it aggressively seeks to expand into an expansive range of technology sectors
Monday 8 June 2026
China analog IC maker Shanghai Belling raises prices by up to 30%, signaling chip market recovery
Shanghai Belling, a Chinese analog IC supplier, has announced price adjustments for some of its products starting June 9, 2026, with increases ranging from 10% to 30%. The move is widely seen as a notable step in a fresh round of price adjustments by one of China's most established analog chipmakers
Monday 8 June 2026
Exclusive: The semiconductor battle behind AI data centers and EVs
Beneath the rapid expansion of electric vehicles and artificial intelligence infrastructure, a quieter battle is unfolding in the semiconductor supply chain
Monday 8 June 2026
CXMT's cheap DDR5 myth fades as supply, not price, becomes China memory maker's edge
ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) is gaining attention as a potential new force in the global DRAM market, but memory module vendors say the Chinese chipmaker is not offering the low-cost DDR5 supply many in the PC sector had hoped for
Monday 8 June 2026
China launches prefabricated power hub to speed data centers, cut costs

China has launched what state media described as the world's first prefabricated computing-power hub, a modular power system designed to shorten data-center construction times and reduce land and infrastructure costs as demand for computing capacity rises

Monday 8 June 2026
NTT taps Korean, Taiwanese partners for JPY70 billion-plus IOWN fund

NTT plans to establish an investment fund of more than JPY70 billion (approx. US$440 million), with major South Korean and Taiwanese partners to accelerate the international expansion of IOWN, its next-generation communications platform based on optical technology, Yomiuri reported

Monday 8 June 2026
Huawei Cloud targets Agentic AI race with Ascend 950DT, smart driving compute, secure hybrid cloud

Huawei Cloud is tying its next phase of cloud growth to Agentic AI, domestic computing power, and industry-specific deployment, launching a new infrastructure framework at its 2026 Huawei Cloud Inspire conference in Shanghai as it seeks a larger role in enterprise AI and smart driving