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Friday 28 November 2025
Baidu reportedly plans biggest layoffs since 2018 as ad revenue slump deepens
Baidu is reportedly preparing its biggest workforce reduction in seven years, trimming staff across key divisions and reshaping its AI model unit by the end of 2025. The overhaul follows a sharp slowdown in advertising sales and rising pressure to shift spending to growth areas
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Friday 28 November 2025
Chinese analog chipmaker 3Peak to acquire Aura Semiconductor in major industry tie-up

3Peak, a leading Chinese analog chipmaker, plans to acquire Ningbo Aura Semiconductor through new share issuance and/or cash. The move advances 3Peak's push to become a global platform-based provider of analog and mixed-signal solutions

Friday 28 November 2025
Japan plans 600-kilometer quantum communication network by 2027

Following the lead of China, the European Union (EU), and South Korea, Japan has unveiled plans to build its own long-distance quantum communication network. The first phase will link the country's three major cities—Tokyo, Nagoya, and Osaka—covering a distance of 600 kilometers. Construction is expected to be completed by early 2027, with field testing planned later that year. The initial rollout will focus on sectors where confidentiality is critical, such as healthcare and finance, to establish a Japan-specific quantum communication standard by 2030

Friday 28 November 2025
Daikin targets AI cooling boom with plan to triple North America revenue
Daikin Industries said at a 27 November briefing in Osaka that soaring server-cooling demand from the rapid uptake of generative AI has led the company to target over JPY300 billion (approx. US$2 billion) in North American data-center cooling revenue in fiscal 2030, nearly triple its JPY100 billion tally in fiscal 2025
Friday 28 November 2025
Samsung Display cautious on OLEDoS ramp as yields stay low
Samsung Display has started producing OLED on Silicon panels for extended-reality devices, but the company is holding back on mass production as low yields and a still-nascent XR market limit near-term demand, according to people familiar with the matter. Analysts say the supplier is choosing to refine its microdisplay technology while waiting for the market to reach a level that can support larger volumes
Friday 28 November 2025
Apple's IT demand lifts global OLED material spending 6.2% in 3Q25
Global OLED panel makers ramped up emissive-material purchases in the third quarter of 2025, largely fueled by stronger sales of Apple's iPhone and iPad lines
Friday 28 November 2025
Huawei's 'genius youth' takes over as Swancor chair
Swancor Advanced Materials, the STAR Market–listed maker of high-performance composites and corrosion-resistant materials, has entered a new phase after naming Peng Zhihui — the Bilibili tech star "Zhi Hui Jun" — as chairman. All nine directors unanimously approved the move at the board's first meeting on November 25, 2024, in compliance with Company Law and STAR Market rules, according to ICsmart and 36Kr
Friday 28 November 2025
China's new TPU contender aims for Nvidia's AI chip dominance
China's AI chip startup Zhonghao Xinying has introduced its own tensor processing unit (TPU), a major step in the country's "de-Americanisation" drive as US export curbs continue to block access to Nvidia's high-end GPUs
Friday 28 November 2025
China's fast-iterating humanoid robots challenge US leadership
The United States and China remain locked in a humanoid-robotics competition. Solomon Technology chairman Johnny Chen says the US leads in software and foundation models, while China advances faster in hardware and iteration cycles. He noted that Chinese systems cost about one-fifth of their US counterparts, making the gap difficult for other countries to close
Friday 28 November 2025
Taiwan's green energy goes global as domestic regulations tighten
Taiwan's recent passage of amendments to three laws has sparked significant concern among energy companies about solar power development in the country. Industry players worry the new regulations will deter investors and further delay large-scale PV power projects. Adding to the challenges, newly established private gas power companies Chung Chia Power (CCP) and Jiu-Wei Power are canceling projects amid local opposition
Thursday 27 November 2025
Honda's reusable rocket test signals Japan's entry into the space race

Honda, long known for its automobiles and motorcycles, is steadily extending its engineering ambitions beyond Earth's surface. Nearly a decade after the HondaJet entered commercial production in 2015, the Japanese manufacturer has marked another aerospace milestone: the successful launch and landing of a reusable micro-rocket in Hokkaido on June 17, 2025

Thursday 27 November 2025
Chinese smartphone makers halt iPhone Air follow-up projects amid weak sales
Following disappointing sales of Apple's iPhone Air and tightening supply chains, major Chinese smartphone manufacturers have reportedly frozen or canceled their own "Air" ultra-thin phone projects. Industry sources cited by Sina Finance and Jiemian.com reveal that Xiaomi, Oppo, Vivo, and others have either scrapped or adjusted development plans for Air models, reallocating eSIM solutions originally intended for these devices to other standard product lines
Thursday 27 November 2025
Beijing reportedly bans ByteDance from using Nvidia GPUs in new data centers
Beijing authorities have reportedly imposed strict restrictions on high-end semiconductor imports, prohibiting ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, from deploying Nvidia GPUs in newly built data centers. Nationally funded infrastructure projects must now utilize domestically produced AI chips, signaling a significant policy shift towards semiconductor self-reliance
Thursday 27 November 2025
China's tech giants 'BAT' invest billions to debunk AI bubble claims
China's leading tech giants, Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent, known collectively as "BAT", have committed massive capital expenditures totaling hundreds of billions of CNY to expand AI infrastructure amid strong market demand. Alibaba's CEO dismissed the AI bubble theory, predicting supply shortages will persist for at least three years
Thursday 27 November 2025
China sets its strictest power-bank standard yet, triggering industry reset
China is set to roll out what industry players call the strictest-ever safety standard for power banks. Reports from Sina and China National Radio say the new "Safety Technical Specification for Power Banks" will reshape the sector by removing non-compliant legacy capacity and lifting safety requirements to unprecedented levels
Thursday 27 November 2025
Sunic's deposition tools clear top rating, enabling BOE's 8.6-gen OLED expansion
BOE Technology has advanced its 8.6-generation OLED production line after South Korea's Sunic System passed BOE's highest-level stability assessment for its deposition equipment, prompting BOE to proceed with Phase Two expansion for Lines 3 and 4