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Monday 27 July 2026
CXMT tops A-share market cap on IPO debut
Chinese DRAM maker ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) listed on the STAR Market of the Shanghai Stock Exchange on July 27, with its market capitalization briefly topping CNY3.6 trillion...
Monday 27 July 2026
CATL profit climbs 42%, but storage price pressure tests its global lead

CATL reported a 42% rise in first-half 2026 net profit as electric-vehicle and energy-storage battery shipments surged, although weaker...

Monday 27 July 2026
Qualcomm tells customers chip prices will rise by double digits from September

Qualcomm plans to raise chip prices by a double-digit percentage from September 1, passing higher supplier costs into a smartphone market...

Monday 27 July 2026
Weekly news roundup: Samsung and SK Hynix favor DDR5, Intel accelerates 18A, Alibaba deepens CXMT ties
AI infrastructure, memory and advanced chipmaking led this week's tech agenda, with Intel, Samsung, SK Hynix, CXMT, Alibaba and Foxconn reshaping capacity and supply chains. Below...
Monday 27 July 2026
CXMT's US$8.6 billion IPO sets off new spending cycle across China's DRAM supply chain
China's leading DRAM producer CXMT listed on Shanghai's STAR Market on July 27 after raising about CNY57.9 billion (approx. US$8.6 billion), the board's largest initial public offering...
Monday 27 July 2026
SK Telecom forms SK Hyper to build 15GW of AI data centers by 2035
SK Telecom has created a dedicated subsidiary, SK Hyper, to develop AI data center businesses and expand South Korea's domestic AI infrastructure. The move supports the government's...
Monday 27 July 2026
ZDT-led China PCB expansion tops US$10 billion on AI server and edge AI demand

China's printed circuit board (PCB) industry is entering a new investment cycle, with more than CNY70 billion (approx. US$10.3 billion)...

Monday 27 July 2026
eSSD contracts surge as AI data centers shift spending from memory to storage
Enterprise SSDs are emerging as a bigger priority in AI infrastructure as generative AI workloads move from training to inference and data centers need faster storage. Reports from...
Sunday 26 July 2026
Airbus raises profit outlook as supply bottlenecks ease
Airbus updated its financial outlook for investors, saying easing supply-chain constraints should support stronger production and profit growth through 2029. According to Bloomberg,...
Saturday 25 July 2026
Huaqin's growing stake in Nexchip shows ODMs reaching upstream into chipmaking
Huaqin Technology, the world's largest consumer-electronics original design manufacturer, has again increased its stake in Chinese foundry Nexchip Semiconductor, underscoring how contract...
Saturday 25 July 2026
China folds data centers into 15th Five-Year renewable energy plan
China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) and the National Energy Administration (NEA) on the 23rd released the 15th Five-Year Plan for Renewable Energy Development,...
Friday 24 July 2026
Google raises capex outlook as compute demand stays tight, boosting Foxconn
Alphabet, Google's parent company, has raised its capital expenditure forecast to US$195-205 billion and signaled a significant increase again in 2027, while openly saying that AI...
Friday 24 July 2026
China's Xi'an Eswin tops 1 million monthly 12-inch wafer sales and output, targets 1.8 million capacity

China's 12-inch silicon wafer maker Xi'an Eswin Material Technology said monthly output and sales of its 12-inch electronic-grade silicon...

Friday 24 July 2026
Amkor, Nvidia widen AI packaging partnership as US capacity expands
Amkor Technology has deepened its partnership with Nvidia to develop advanced semiconductor packaging and test technologies for next-generation AI and accelerated computing platforms...
Friday 24 July 2026
DeepSeek's Liang Wenfeng says China trails US AI by up to 18 months, with compute the decisive gap
DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng says China's AI industry trails the US by six to 18 months mainly because of limited computing power, not talent.