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Sunday 30 August 2026
Shinkong Synthetic Fibers eyes cautious 2H26 on higher-value, recycled materials
Shinkong Synthetic Fibers Corporation (SSFC) is taking a cautiously optimistic view of operations in the second half of 2026. Despite geopolitical volatility and disruption to Middle...
Sunday 30 August 2026
China writes its first national liquid-cooling standard as AI racks approach 1MW
AI infrastructure is entering a phase in which GPUs are no longer the only constraint. Nvidia's Vera Rubin generation is pushing rack power high enough to force parallel changes in...
Sunday 30 August 2026
Humanoid robot shipments top 22,000 in 1H26 as industrial use gains ground
As embodied intelligence takes physical form amid widespread production-capacity expansion in the humanoid robot sector, it is becoming increasingly possible to envision a society...
Saturday 29 August 2026
Commentary: China's robot games offer Taiwan a reality check
China's second humanoid robot games, held in Beijing from August 22 to August 26, 2026, sent videos and clips racing across social media and underscored how fast humanoid robotics...
Saturday 29 August 2026
China's dexterous-hand makers take center stage as three technology paths vie for humanoid robotics
China's humanoid robot industry is flourishing, and the recently concluded World Robot Conference (WRC) 2026 in Beijing revealed a notable shift in focus. Unlike previous years, when...
Saturday 29 August 2026
Qualcomm's HBC play pulls Samsung and SK hynix into a new race beyond HBM
The AI infrastructure race has spent the past few years fixated on high-bandwidth memory as one of the most indispensable building blocks of accelerated compute. Yet as model sizes,...
Friday 28 August 2026
Huawei targets 100 million HarmonyOS 6 devices, paving way for global expansion next
Huawei rotating chairman Eric Xu said at the HarmonyOS Ecosystem Conference 2026 in Shenzhen on August 28 that the HarmonyOS ecosystem now has more than 100,000 native applications,...
Friday 28 August 2026
China chip profits jump 18.5-fold on AI demand; advanced-node self-sufficiency seen at 66% by 2035
China's AI investment boom is translating into sharply higher semiconductor profits while accelerating a longer-term expansion of domestic advanced-node capacity, memory production...
Friday 28 August 2026
China memory catch-up broadens: YMTC closes in on SK Hynix NAND share, CXMT advances DRAM tech
China's memory-chip industry is narrowing parts of the technology gap with global leaders on two fronts. YMTC is approaching SK Hynix in NAND revenue share while running a more advanced...
Friday 28 August 2026
Pioneering sustainable water solutions in Asia-Pacific data centers
At the Sustainability Environment Asia Conference 2026, Gunalan Kaniasan, principal for water resources in Asia-Pacific and Japan (APJC) at AWS, outlined strategies for water sustainability...
Friday 28 August 2026
China's Kaizhong eyes data centers and dexterous hands
At GATE 2026, Kaizhong, a major Chinese commutator maker, used its display to showcase how its automotive business has laid the groundwork for expansion into data centers, dexterous...
Friday 28 August 2026
Huawei's Ascend 910C sold out in China, but Nvidia's H200 supply gap persists
Huawei's Ascend 910C is already sold out in China, but domestic chips still cannot fully replace Nvidia's H200s. The shortage matters beyond China because AI compute constraints, pricing,...
Friday 28 August 2026
Samsung eyes zHBM products from 2029 as heat remains key hurdle
Samsung Electronics expects products based on its first-generation zHBM specifications to appear in 2029 or later, giving the 3D memory concept unveiled earlier this month an initial...
Friday 28 August 2026
Samsung diverges from TSMC on FOPLP: retains 415×510mm panel size, targets 2028 mass production
Samsung Electronics' packaging technology lead, Lee Hee-seok, outlined the company's advanced semiconductor packaging roadmap at Advanced Semiconductor Packaging & Chiplet Show...
Friday 28 August 2026
Insight: China's next AI frontier is silicon, not smarter models
For the past two years, China's AI companies have competed on a single axis: whose model performs best. That contest is starting to give way to a harder one — whether those models...