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Friday 19 September 2025
Huawei's Ascend chips to surpass Nvidia's China-only GPUs with up to 8 PFLOPS, 14.4TB/s bandwidth
US export controls have capped the performance of Nvidia's "China-only" GPUs, opening the door for domestic chipmakers to compete. Huawei's Ascend roadmap, announced at its 2025 Connect Summit, is widely seen as a direct challenge to Nvidia's restricted offerings in China
Friday 19 September 2025
China's skyward ambitions face reality check after XPeng eVTOL crash

A dramatic accident unfolded during a rehearsal for the Changchun Air Show this week, when two XPeng AeroHT manned electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft collided midair while performing a formation flight. One of the aircraft crashed and caught fire upon landing, sending thick black smoke billowing across the runway

Friday 19 September 2025
Huawei Ascend 950 to feature in-house HBM in 2026, advancing China's AI memory independence
Huawei unveiled its next-generation Ascend AI chip roadmap at the 2025 Connect summit, highlighting a milestone for China's semiconductor ambitions. Starting in early 2026, the Ascend 950 PR will integrate Huawei's self-developed high-bandwidth memory (HBM), marking a pivotal advance in the country's drive for independence in AI chip memory systems
Friday 19 September 2025
Alibaba's T-Head AI chip rivals Nvidia H20, wins major China Unicom data center deal
Alibaba's chip design arm T-Head has introduced its latest AI accelerator, the PPU, positioning it as a rival to Nvidia's China-only H20 GPU. The processor has already been rolled out in volume at China Unicom's Sanjiangyuan Big Data Base in Qinghai, representing one of the country's largest deployments of homegrown AI chips
Friday 19 September 2025
Domestic AI chips forecast to capture over half of China's market by 2027
Once confined to gaming arcades, GPUs have transformed into the lifeblood of the AI revolution. Nvidia, the undisputed industry titan, wields what many call the "golden shovel" in the global artificial intelligence gold rush
Friday 19 September 2025
Samsung and SK Hynix set stage for global battle over HBM4 chips

SK Hynix has announced it is the first in the world to establish a mass production system for sixth-generation High Bandwidth Memory (HBM4), signaling the start of a new technological arms race in next-generation memory chips

Thursday 18 September 2025
XPeng taps Magna for European production as EU tariffs bite
As the European Union imposes steep anti-subsidy tariffs on Chinese-made battery electric vehicles (BEVs), a new mode of cross-border cooperation is quietly reshaping the continent's automotive landscape
Thursday 18 September 2025
Samsung chair inspects OLED plant as Apple competition heats up
Samsung Electronics chairman Lee Jae-yong made a high-profile visit to Samsung Display's (SDC) Asan complex in South Korea, signaling the company's push to stay ahead in the intensifying OLED race. The site is developing an 8.6-generation OLED production line for IT devices, with mass production slated for 2026 to serve Apple and other international customers
Thursday 18 September 2025
RaaS model key to turning around South Korea's robot industry losses
Despite rising labor costs and challenges from a declining birthrate and aging society, South Korea's robotics market has failed to meet high demand expectations. Many robotics companies are facing revenue declines and increasing losses in the first half of 2025. According to South Korean startup BigWave Robotics, the robot as a service (RaaS) business model will be the solution to address insufficient robot demand and navigate the emerging humanoid robot era
Thursday 18 September 2025
BOE loses ground to LGD as Apple reconfigures OLED supply chain

The global market for small-sized OLED displays is on a path of steady expansion through the end of the decade, fueled primarily by the rising demand from smartphones, particularly Apple's iPhone lineup. However, with demand expected to outpace supply, analysts are warning of a potential OLED panel shortage as early as 2028

Thursday 18 September 2025
Japanese chipmakers abandon legacy lines, rattling automakers
As the world races ahead with cutting-edge advances in artificial intelligence, the automotive sector faces a quieter but potentially disruptive challenge: the slow, steady disappearance of legacy semiconductor manufacturing
Thursday 18 September 2025
DeepSeek AI conducts undisclosed risk evaluation amid heightened Chinese regulatory scrutiny
China's DeepSeek has reportedly carried out an internal assessment of potential risks posed by its AI models to public safety and social stability, although it has not made the results public
Thursday 18 September 2025
From delay to debut: iPhone 17 gets fast-tracked in Indonesia after US trade deal
Apple is preparing to launch its iPhone 17 series globally — and for the first time, Indonesia will be part of the initial wave of releases
Thursday 18 September 2025
Tencent Cloud embraces Chinese semiconductor ecosystem in shift from Nvidia, AMD

Tencent said its cloud business has fully integrated with China's mainstream domestic chips, marking a milestone in its AI and cloud computing roadmap unveiled at the 2025 Tencent Global Digital Ecosystem Summit

Thursday 18 September 2025
Huawei charts 6-year Ascend AI chip roadmap, showcasing HBM advances and SuperNode scale
Huawei is pressing ahead with its in-house chip and AI infrastructure strategy despite escalating US–China tech tensions. At Huawei Connect 2025 in Shanghai, deputy and rotating chairman Eric Xu unveiled the company's first detailed Ascend AI chip roadmap in six years, highlighting Huawei's advances in high-performance computing and long-term ambitions in AI infrastructure