Huawei is reportedly working through its domestic supply chain to begin mass production of semiconductor glass substrates in 2027, with plans to adopt the technology in its own AI chips. Industry sources said that if the strategy proceeds successfully, leadership in global semiconductor glass-substrate technology could gradually shift towards China.
Judging only by the news of summer 2026, China's technology sector appears to have entered an unusually concentrated period of breakthroughs.
A high-level technology gathering in Sicily, reportedly to be attended by the leaders of two of South Korea's largest semiconductor groups, Samsung Electronics and SK Group, is drawing attention to their expanding roles across the AI infrastructure stack.
AI-driven demand is tightening the global memory market just as China's leading DRAM producer, ChangXin Memory Technologies, or CXMT, accelerates capacity expansion after a record IPO.
China's blistering pace of new-car launches — expected to average four new vehicles a day in the first half of 2026 — is shifting from a market-winning tactic to a key driver of industry reshuffling and shakeouts, intensifying cutthroat competition in the auto market.
Anthropic has asked SK Hynix to help supply chips for its own in-house AI chip production, SK Group chairman Chey Tae-won said. He made the remarks at a recent AI summit in San Francisco, where he also disclosed that South Korea's three new investment plans in semiconductor expansion, AI data centers and physical AI would total more than US$3 trillion.
