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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...
Friday 28 August 2026
YMTC builds China chip supply chain around Wuhan fabs with 'Wutong Tree' Plan
Competition in China's memory sector is extending beyond wafer capacity and process technology into semiconductor equipment, materials and components. YMTC is expanding its domestic...
Friday 28 August 2026
Vanguard says Taoyuan fab fire did not disrupt production
Vanguard International Semiconductor said a fire broke out late on August 27 on the roof of its Wafer Fab 3 in Taoyuan City, Taiwan, but the incident caused no major impact on production...
Friday 28 August 2026
Renesas opens physical AI, robotics lab in Beijing
Renesas Electronics has opened a physical AI and robotics lab in Beijing, a move that could speed the development of safer, smarter machines for factories, logistics, and homes worldwide...
Friday 28 August 2026
Honor Robot Phone enters mass production, making robotics central to its premium AI strategy
More than a year after Honor first debated the idea internally, its Robot Phone has moved from a contentious concept to a mass-produced commercial product. But the significance of...
Friday 28 August 2026
IntelliEPI says Japan substrate outage hit 2Q26 revenue
IntelliEPI said on August 27 that revenue in the second quarter of 2026 was pressured after a Japanese substrate supplier shut down for nearly three weeks during the Golden Week holiday,...
Friday 28 August 2026
China rises to No. 2 in global CMOS image sensors, overtaking Korea with 21% share
China's CMOS image sensor industry is gaining ground beyond smartphones, with robotics emerging as one of the latest areas where domestic suppliers are linking sensor technology with...