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Monday 10 August 2026
FCC 26-50 extends US tech controls to chips, optical transceivers and supply-chain origins

US technology controls are reaching deeper into communications supply chains. Under FCC 26-50, the Federal Communications Commission...

Monday 10 August 2026
Moore Threads eyes HK listing after 147% revenue surge, AI GPU expansion

Chinese AI GPU developer Moore Threads is preparing a Hong Kong listing after first-half revenue jumped 147.42% year on year to CNY1.74...

Monday 10 August 2026
Apple tests CXMT memory chips as shortage, price pressures persist

Apple has tested DRAM from China's ChangXin Memory Technologies in iPhone and MacBook products as AI-driven memory shortages and rising...

Monday 10 August 2026
Cambricon AI chip revenue doubles as China demand surges, supply capacity holds key
Cambricon Technologies has largely settled the question of whether China's AI chip champion can make money. First-half 2026 revenue rose 108.13% to CNY6 billion (approx. US$890 million),...
Monday 10 August 2026
Semiconductor material prices surge across silicon wafers, specialty gases and advanced packaging
Demand for advanced processes and packaging continues to rise, while the Middle East conflict is lifting energy and raw-material costs and tighter Chinese controls on strategic-mineral...
Monday 10 August 2026
Ex-SK Hynix employee gets 18 months for leaking chip secrets to Chinese firms

The Seoul High Court has upheld an 18-month prison sentence for a former SK Hynix employee who leaked trade secrets tied to CMOS image...

Monday 10 August 2026
DeepSeek takes Unitree stake to pair AI models with humanoid robots

DeepSeek has invested CNY140.8 million (approx. US$20.8 million) in Unitree's Shanghai IPO and agreed to jointly develop AI models for...

Monday 10 August 2026
Column: Greening the Gobi Desert—how China built Inner Mongolia's wind power ecosystem

Driven by global net-zero commitments and China's "dual carbon" goals of peaking carbon emissions before achieving carbon neutrality,...

Monday 10 August 2026
China’s new renewable rules drive a surge in hydrogen investment
China’s tighter renewable-energy compliance rules have opened the way for green hydrogen, green ammonia, and green methanol to be included in the country’s minimum renewable-energy...
Sunday 9 August 2026
Commentary: From free flow to tight control — how tech talent became a national security asset

Tech talent has moved from being simply a hiring priority to a matter of national security. As major economies increasingly tie talent...

Saturday 8 August 2026
Commentary: China IC design rules reshape patent battles

China's State Council has released a revised version of the regulations on the protection of IC layout designs, set to take effect...

Friday 7 August 2026
China launches review of Palo Alto Networks as trade tensions with US escalate
China's cyberspace authority said it has begun to scrutinize products sold by US cybersecurity company Palo Alto Networks within the country, citing risks to national security and...
Friday 7 August 2026
SK Hynix's Solidigm weighs up to US$7 billion in pre-IPO funding

Solidigm, SK Hynix's US NAND and enterprise storage unit, is weighing a pre-IPO funding round of KRW5 trillion to KRW10 trillion, roughly US$3.5 billion to US$7 billion,...

Friday 7 August 2026
Chinese AI firms shift toward monetization as LLM providers reportedly signal price increases
Chinese large language model (LLM) developers are beginning to move away from aggressive price competition, with leading players reportedly introducing higher prices and new commercial...
Friday 7 August 2026
US optical transceiver ban risks slowing AI data center build-out
A proposed US ban on new Chinese optical transceivers could disrupt the build-out of AI data centers before Western suppliers have enough capacity to replace Chinese production, raising...