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Wednesday 14 January 2026
CXMT launches US$4bn bid to break DRAM market control
Surging artificial intelligence (AI) workloads have triggered a global shortage of HBM, tightening DRAM and NAND supply and pushing prices sharply higher. US PC maker HP is now evaluating...
Wednesday 14 January 2026
Tsinghua's AI quartet and China's 20% bet on AI race
As the global generative AI race enters a more competitive phase, the direction of China's large-model development is no longer shaped by a single company. Instead, it is increasingly...
Wednesday 14 January 2026
US drone policy swings highlight security and geopolitical tensions
Over the past year, US policy toward Chinese-made drones has shifted repeatedly, reflecting differing approaches across government agencies. Congress, the Federal Communications Commission,...
Wednesday 14 January 2026
US clarifies AI chip rules, opens conditional export pathway for Nvidia H200 and peers
The US Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) has shifted its license review policy for exports of certain advanced computing chips to China and Macau from a "presumption...
Wednesday 14 January 2026
China signals photoresist localization shift in supply chain standoff with Japan

China has imposed export controls on selected Japanese dual-use goods, including rare earths, and launched an anti-dumping investigation...

Wednesday 14 January 2026
China's GPU makers go public, advance to 6nm/7nm nodes
China's domestic GPU sector has entered a new phase of capitalization. Moore Threads and MetaX have listed on the STAR Market, Biren debuted on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in early...
Tuesday 13 January 2026
DeepSeek V4 update: Conditional memory reshapes large-model efficiency
DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng has published a new paper with a research team from Peking University, outlining key technical directions for next-generation sparse large language models...
Tuesday 13 January 2026
CES 2026: Chinese humanoid robots dominate the spotlight
Humanoid robots emerged as a centerpiece of CES 2026 this week as the world's largest technology trade show pivoted from traditional consumer electronics toward the commercialization...
Tuesday 13 January 2026
CES 2026: The auto industry's AI boom meets growing doubts
The exhibition halls brimmed with visions of the future: autonomous vehicle cabins designed for emotional interaction, humanoid robots capable of perceiving their surroundings with...
Tuesday 13 January 2026
Nvidia denies requiring Chinese customers to prepay for H200 chips
Nvidia said it does not require customers to make upfront payments for its H200 artificial intelligence chips. The statement pushes back against a Reuters report claiming...
Tuesday 13 January 2026
China's reusable rocket makers set their sights on SpaceX's cost edge

After completing a Series A funding round in January 2025, SEPOCH (also known as Jianyuan Technology), a Beijing-based private aerospace...

Tuesday 13 January 2026
Xiaomi's XRing strategy raises pressure on MediaTek, Qualcomm
Market sources say Xiaomi is expanding its in-house XRing chip lineup. Beyond developing the next-generation XRing O2 on TSMC's N3P process, the company also plans to extend these...
Tuesday 13 January 2026
China's EV industry faces a state-mandated reset as energy caps take effect
As 2026 begins, China has put into force the world's first mandatory national standard governing energy consumption for electric vehicles, drawing a sharp new line for an industry...
Monday 12 January 2026
China-style NXP model? Unigroup Guoxin buys WeEn to build a design-to-fab power chip platform

Unigroup Guoxin Microelectronics has launched a stock-and-cash deal to acquire control of WeEn Semiconductors, a China-owned power semiconductor...

Monday 12 January 2026
US scraps planned restrictions on Chinese-made drones

The US Commerce Department has withdrawn a proposal that would have restricted or potentially barred imports of Chinese-made drones, stepping...