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Thursday 7 May 2026

Chinese semiconductor equipment makers deepen SEA OSAT presence

Chinese semiconductor equipment makers CCtech and Nextool Technology are expanding into Southeast Asia's OSAT hubs as Malaysia and Singapore emerge as key packaging and testing centers...

Thursday 7 May 2026

South Korea's US$344.3 million push to localize power chips

South Korea plans to provide KRW500 billion (US$344.3 million) in state funding for a large-scale research and development project aimed at localizing next-generation power semiconductors,...

Thursday 7 May 2026

Pentagon deploys 100,000 AI agents, escalating algorithm warfare with China

The Pentagon has deployed more than 100,000 AI agents through its GenAI.mil platform, marking a broader shift toward algorithm-driven warfare and expanding the US military's push into...

Thursday 7 May 2026

From market leader to exit: Samsung pulls out of China's home appliances market

Samsung Electronics' decision to withdraw from China's home appliance market marks the end of a long and gradual erosion of its once-dominant...

Thursday 7 May 2026

From chips to telecoms, South Korea faces an AI-era labor reckoning

Labor tensions across South Korea's technology sector are intensifying, and the conflict is no longer confined to traditional disputes between workers and management. Increasingly,...

Thursday 7 May 2026

ByteDance's Doubao tests paid AI tiers to challenge ChatGPT subscriptions

China's AI market has expanded rapidly through free and low-cost offerings, but rising computing costs and deeper enterprise adoption are beginning to reshape the sector's business...

Thursday 7 May 2026

Exclusive: China's automakers leap forward in next generation of car architecture

As the global auto industry shifts toward software-defined vehicles (SDVs), the evolution of electronic and electrical architectures has...

Thursday 7 May 2026

China token prices rise while US hyperscalers flood AI infrastructure

Generative AI demand is intensifying the global race for computing power, widening the gap between China and the US in AI infrastructure investment. Yet while US hyperscalers continue...

Thursday 7 May 2026

EU joins telecom coalition as 6G rivalry with China intensifies

The European Union has become the first strategic partner of the Global Coalition on Telecommunications, or GCOT, expanding a Western-led...

Thursday 7 May 2026

Gen5 SSD race shifts to power and AI: Micron, YMTC diverges

As demand for PCs and edge AI accelerates, the consumer SSD market is entering a transition to the PCIe 5.0 (Gen5) era. For notebooks — long a core OEM segment — power...

Wednesday 6 May 2026

China's cloud providers raise AI prices as model usage surges

Rising demand for generative AI is prompting major Chinese cloud providers to raise prices for large-scale services and data products, with implications for global AI users and developers,...

Wednesday 6 May 2026

China EV exports hit 22% in 1Q26, April surge highlights overseas growth shift

As the global electric vehicle market enters a phase of structural adjustment, China's new energy vehicle makers are increasingly relying on exports to sustain growth and expand their...

Wednesday 6 May 2026

DeepSeek pulls multimodal paper after brief release, reveals new visual reasoning approach

DeepSeek briefly released, then removed, a multimodal research paper that offers rare insight into its evolving AI strategy, drawing attention across the developer community.

Wednesday 6 May 2026

SoftBank, Intel target HBM limits with 9-layer memory

SoftBank's memory unit SAIMEMORY is preparing to present a new 3D DRAM technology developed with Intel, as the AI hardware industry seeks ways to ease the power and heat constraints...

Wednesday 6 May 2026

Samsung board chairman warns strike could disrupt chip output

Samsung Electronics' labor dispute is widening beyond a fight over bonuses, after board chairman Shin Je-yoon made a rare appeal for management...

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