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Wednesday 14 January 2026
China tech restrictions complicate Reliance battery cell plans
Reports that Reliance Industries has paused plans to manufacture lithium-ion battery cells have reignited debate over India's clean-energy ambitions, highlighting technology bottlenecks...
Wednesday 14 January 2026
China lifts semiconductor equipment localization to 35%
China's push to localize its semiconductor equipment supply chain has reached an unexpected milestone. Domestic tools accounted for 35% of chipmaking equipment used in 2025, up from...
Wednesday 14 January 2026
Iluvatar CoreX sets three-generation GPU plan, eyes H200 performance
As China's domestic GPU developers accelerate public listings and expand both technological and capital investment, competition is shifting toward next-generation computing power...
Wednesday 14 January 2026
China's new export trio drives 2025 trade growth
China's total trade in goods reached CNY45.47 trillion (approx. US$6.51 trillion) in 2025, marking a 3.8% year-over-year increase and setting a new record, the General Administration...
Wednesday 14 January 2026
China extends anti-dumping tariffs on US and Korean polysilicon
As China–US technological and industrial rivalry intensifies, Beijing is strengthening its trade defence measures. China's Ministry of Commerce announced on the 13th that anti-dumping...
Wednesday 14 January 2026
DeepSeek V4 and the new economics of AI compute
In early 2025, as most Silicon Valley AI firms focused on stacking high-end GPUs and expanding parameter counts, Chinese startup DeepSeek took a different path. Using a pragmatic...
Wednesday 14 January 2026
South Korea's tech independence drive under scrutiny over China links
South Korea's push to build sovereign artificial intelligence foundation models is facing heightened scrutiny as several domestic contenders in a government-backed selection process...
Wednesday 14 January 2026
CXMT launches US$4bn bid to break DRAM market control
Surging artificial intelligence (AI) workloads have triggered a global shortage of HBM, tightening DRAM and NAND supply and pushing prices sharply higher. US PC maker HP is now evaluating...
Wednesday 14 January 2026
Tsinghua's AI quartet and China's 20% bet on AI race
As the global generative AI race enters a more competitive phase, the direction of China's large-model development is no longer shaped by a single company. Instead, it is increasingly...
Wednesday 14 January 2026
US drone policy swings highlight security and geopolitical tensions
Over the past year, US policy toward Chinese-made drones has shifted repeatedly, reflecting differing approaches across government agencies. Congress, the Federal Communications Commission,...
Wednesday 14 January 2026
US clarifies AI chip rules, opens conditional export pathway for Nvidia H200 and peers
The US Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) has shifted its license review policy for exports of certain advanced computing chips to China and Macau from a...
Wednesday 14 January 2026
China signals photoresist localization shift in supply chain standoff with Japan

China has imposed export controls on selected Japanese dual-use goods, including rare earths, and launched an anti-dumping investigation...

Wednesday 14 January 2026
China's GPU makers go public, advance to 6nm/7nm nodes
China's domestic GPU sector has entered a new phase of capitalization. Moore Threads and MetaX have listed on the STAR Market, Biren debuted on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in early...
Tuesday 13 January 2026
DeepSeek V4 update: Conditional memory reshapes large-model efficiency
DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng has published a new paper with a research team from Peking University, outlining key technical directions for next-generation sparse large language...
Tuesday 13 January 2026
CES 2026: Chinese humanoid robots dominate the spotlight
Humanoid robots emerged as a centerpiece of CES 2026 this week as the world's largest technology trade show pivoted from traditional consumer electronics toward the commercialization...