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Friday 31 July 2026
ByteDance merges Lark with Doubao after AI revenue hits US$4B run rate
ByteDance is reorganising Doubao, Lark and Volcengine around a more unified enterprise AI strategy, combining product development, cloud commercialisation and workplace software as its large-model business reaches an annualised revenue run rate of US$4 billion.
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Monday 3 August 2026
CXMT closes in on LPDDR6 mass production, challenging Samsung, SK Hynix
CXMT is nearing the end of research and development validation for LPDDR6, bringing it closer to mass production of next-generation mobile DRAM and intensifying competition with Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix and Micron.
Monday 3 August 2026
TCL Technology to take full ownership of TCL CSOT
TCL Technology Group plans to pay CNY9.32 billion (approx. US$1.38 billion) for the 45% of China Star Optoelectronics Semiconductor Display Technology it does not already own, according to the registration-stage draft of the company's share-issue-and-cash asset purchase report, dated July 2026. The sellers are three Guangdong state-linked shareholders: Hengjian Investment (25.00%), Chengfa Investment (7.50%) and Science City Investment (12.50%).
Monday 3 August 2026
MA-tek sells Shanghai unit, expands AI market push in Japan and the US

MA-tek announced on July 31, 2026, that it will sell 80% of its Shanghai subsidiary for about CNY1.9 billion (US$281.4 million), as global semiconductor supply chains are reshuffled and demand surges for AI, high-performance computing (HPC), advanced process nodes, advanced packaging, and silicon photonics (SiPh). The deal is expected to close and be recognized in revenue by the end of 2026.

Monday 3 August 2026
Drone delivery goes mainstream as Shenzhen becomes a robot hub
Meituan's drone delivery service can reach customers within 3 kilometers in about 15 minutes, rain or shine, and its daily use in Shenzhen is highlighting why the city has become a key launchpad for commercializing unmanned delivery. The city's dense supply chain, talent base, and innovation culture are helping turn robotics into a practical business.
Monday 3 August 2026
Renesas plans to phase out Takasaki factory production and expand R&D focus

Renesas Electronics plans to gradually end production at its Takasaki factory in Japan over the next two to three years while strengthening research and development there. The move reflects wider supply-chain strain in legacy semiconductor manufacturing and could affect customers, workers, and global users of analog and power chips.

Monday 3 August 2026
TSMC Kumamoto fab faces first major quake test with chip-material supplies secured
A magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck Kumamoto Prefecture in Japan's Kyushu region on July 28, drawing attention to the recovery of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co's Kumamoto plant, Sony, and other local semiconductor facilities.
Monday 3 August 2026
South Korea accelerates LEO satellite ambitions, targets sovereign communications network by 2035
As Starlink's subscriber base has surpassed 12 million and rivals such as OneWeb and Amazon's Project Kuiper continue expanding their constellations, South Korea only officially launched its low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellite communications initiative in July 2026.
Monday 3 August 2026
Beijing's AI 'golden circle' draws Moonshot, Z.ai, US$14B in funding
Beijing is emerging as one of China's most prominent artificial intelligence clusters as competition in large language models intensifies. Moonshot AI's recently released open-source Kimi K3 model has climbed global open-source rankings, while Z.ai, DeepSeek, and other companies continue to expand. With talent, capital, policy support and technical resources increasingly concentrated around China's political decision-making center, Beijing is rapidly taking shape as a major AI hub.
Sunday 2 August 2026
MiniMax H3 pairs 2K video with native stereo audio in China's multimodal AI race
Chinese AI start-up MiniMax launched MiniMax H3 on July 31, expanding its position in multimodal generative AI as competition among China's model developers spreads beyond large language models into video, audio, and AI agents.
Sunday 2 August 2026
Xiaomi adds SkyNomad N90 and N70 with 370,000 deliveries still needed for 2026 target

Xiaomi has entered China's range-extended electric vehicle market with two large intelligent SUVs, expanding beyond battery-only models as it confronts slowing deliveries, renewed losses and intensifying competition from technology groups including Huawei and ByteDance.

Saturday 1 August 2026
Huawei's Kirin X90 Plus and XE90 power its lightest laptop and next foldable PC
Huawei has introduced two PC processors, the Kirin X90 Plus and Kirin XE90, alongside new HarmonyOS laptops designed to extend its in-house chip strategy across high-performance and ultra-light computing.
Saturday 1 August 2026
Chinese display makers move deeper into Korean cockpits as BOE wins Hyundai's flagship display program

Chinese display suppliers are expanding into South Korea's automotive supply chain as competition shifts beyond televisions and smartphones toward software-defined vehicles, where cockpit displays are becoming a defining part of the user experience.

Friday 31 July 2026
Elon Musk denies rumored Tesla China contingency plans; discussions on supply chain localization shifts persist
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has denied a Wall Street Journal report on an internal plan within Tesla to prepare for a possible separation of its China operations. Despite his rebuttal, the report has still drawn attention to a wider transformation underway across the technology industry,
Friday 31 July 2026
Exclusive: Asian chipmakers' shift to US helium raises concentration risk
Chipmakers in Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan have avoided broad helium-related production disruptions so far, but their rapid shift toward US supply is creating a new concentration risk.
Thursday 30 July 2026
Samsung signs five-year memory deals as chip shortage stretches to 2028
Samsung Electronics has signed five-year memory supply agreements with five leading global data center customers and is in the final stages of talks with five more, tying a growing share of its DRAM and NAND output to commitments that run years into the future.