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Thursday 20 August 2026
Samsung repays 20 trillion won SDC loan early as memory demand surges

Samsung Electronics fully repaid a KRW20 trillion unsecured loan from Samsung Display ahead of schedule in the second quarter of 2026,...

Thursday 20 August 2026
YMTC parent advances IPO as NAND share hits 14% and AI storage scales
Yangtze Memory Technologies Holding, the parent of Chinese NAND flash maker YMTC, has completed a key stage of its pre-IPO process just as the memory maker gains global market share,...
Thursday 20 August 2026
Sunplus expects automotive orders to rise in 3Q26 as memory costs threaten demand

Taiwanese IC design house Sunplus Technology expects its automotive orders to strengthen further in the third quarter of 2026, but warned...

Thursday 20 August 2026
Xiaomi's AI-EV Pivot gains momentum as memory costs pressure Q226 smartphone business
Xiaomi is accelerating its transition from a smartphone-focused electronics manufacturer toward a broader technology ecosystem company, as artificial intelligence (AI), electric vehicles...
Thursday 20 August 2026
AI chip strategies echo StarCraft factions as memory bottleneck reshapes the race

The global semiconductor ecosystem is facing an unprecedented shortage of memory chips, with hardware growth increasingly constrained...

Thursday 20 August 2026
AI models show softer responses on authoritarian leaders, report finds
U.S.-based AI models were found to avoid direct criticism of authoritarian leaders more often than democratic ones, according to a July report from the Meta-funded Oversight Board...
Wednesday 19 August 2026
China accelerates Microsoft Windows 10 exit from state systems
China is accelerating efforts to remove foreign technology from sensitive state-linked systems, ordering some government-affiliated entities to uninstall a customised version of Microsoft...
Wednesday 19 August 2026
Nvidia H200 chips reach China as imports remain limited
ByteDance and Tencent have each received about 10,000 Nvidia H200 processors in mainland China in recent weeks, the Financial Times reported, marking the clearest sign yet...
Wednesday 19 August 2026
GigaDevice profit surges 1,092% on memory upcycle, niche DRAM and NAND gains
GigaDevice Semiconductor posted record first-half 2026 results, with tight memory supply and rising prices across niche products lifting earnings well beyond its full-year 2025 lev...
Wednesday 19 August 2026
Socionext taps Intel 18A-P process for high-performance compute chiplet development
Custom System-on-Chip (SoC) designer Socionext has selected Intel Foundry's 18A-P process node to build its next-generation custom silicon, aiming to accelerate workloads across data...
Wednesday 19 August 2026
EU tightens recycled-content rules as material traceability becomes a new battery market barrier
The European Union is moving to tighten recycling requirements for rechargeable batteries, including electric vehicle batteries, industrial energy storage batteries, and automotive...
Wednesday 19 August 2026
Baidu's AI business drives growth as robotaxi expansion accelerates
Baidu is deepening its shift toward an AI-first business, with AI-powered operations accounting for half of its general business revenue in the second quarter as demand for computing...
Wednesday 19 August 2026
Google to move all Pixel production out of China in 2027, Nikkei Asia says
Google has told suppliers it plans to move all production of Pixel smartphones, smartwatches and wireless earbuds out of China starting in 2027, after making progress developing and...
Wednesday 19 August 2026
Commentary: Tsinghua Unigroup distances itself from failed US$15 billion Dongguan chip-cloud project

Tsinghua Unigroup's former "chip-to-cloud" expansion strategy unraveled after a debt crisis in 2020 and subsequent bankruptcy restructuring...

Wednesday 19 August 2026
Taiwanese firms' China investment returns hit record high on AI boom

Driven by surging global demand for AI and high-performance computing (HPC), Taiwanese listed companies achieved record combined profits...