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Monday 20 July 2026
Memory is becoming a national security priority, SK chair warns

The global scramble for AI memory is fast becoming a matter of national economic security, with governments intervening in supply and...

Monday 20 July 2026
Commentary: China's DRAM comes of age with CXMT's IPO — but a trio of hurdles remains

CXMT's STAR Market IPO marks a coming-of-age moment for China's DRAM industry, but the listing is only the beginning. Having proved...

Monday 20 July 2026
US and Chinese AI labs are quietly building on each other's models, even as distillation fight rages
The distillation dispute between US and Chinese AI labs has been framed as a one-way street: American firms accuse Chinese rivals of copying their models. However, a run of recent...
Monday 20 July 2026
Smart glasses race enters new phase as AI ecosystems eclipse hardware specs
The global smart glasses market is entering a decisive new stage in the second half of 2026, with competition expanding well beyond Meta's early dominance. Industry attention is rapidly...
Monday 20 July 2026
Grenergy listing could sharpen group's role in AI and power supply markets
Grenergy Enterprise is set to list on the emerging stock board on July 21, in a move that could highlight how its parent, Changs Ascending Enterprise, is dividing the group's lithium...
Monday 20 July 2026
Edge AI becomes China's next battleground as ModelBest tops US$2.8 billion valuation
China's latest wave of investment in edge AI signals a shift toward large-scale commercialization as the country accelerates the deployment of on-device AI across consumer and industrial...
Monday 20 July 2026
Interview: AI race is now a financing race, and Compute Labs wants to bankroll GPUs
As AI's bottleneck shifts from chips to capital, Compute Labs pitches GPUs as financeable assets.
Monday 20 July 2026
China pushes AI agent interoperability and space computing at WAIC 2026

China unveiled two major AI initiatives at the 2026 World AI Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai, highlighting efforts to standardize AI agent...

Monday 20 July 2026
Networking demand remains resilient, but component shortages threaten shipment schedules

AI data center expansion and high-speed network upgrades continue to support demand for networking equipment. However, as the industry...

Monday 20 July 2026
CXMT's US$4B IPO fuels DRAM capacity race toward 350,000 wafers a month

Chinese DRAM maker ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) is accelerating construction and technology upgrades across its manufacturing...

Monday 20 July 2026
Alibaba pitches Qwen3.8 Max as 'second only to Fable 5' — without the benchmarks to prove it
Alibaba's decision to rank its newest flagship directly against a single American system — describing Qwen3.8 Max as "second only to" Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 — underscores...
Monday 20 July 2026
Moonshot reportedly eyes IPO after Kimi K3 success forces cap on new users
Moonshot AI's latest model launch is rapidly reshaping perceptions of China's artificial intelligence (AI) industry, with overwhelming demand forcing the company to suspend new consumer...
Monday 20 July 2026
BYD targets Japan's Kei-car stronghold with low-cost EV challenge
BYD is pressing ahead with plans to enter Japan's all-electric kei-car market, stepping up promotional activity and appointing a brand ambassador in a sign of growing confidence about...
Monday 20 July 2026
Micron's 10-year deal with GlobalWafers signals tighter 12-inch supply

Rising demand for AI data centers and high-bandwidth memory (HBM) is pushing semiconductor competition further upstream into silicon...

Monday 20 July 2026
Huahsu expands capacity to tap AI and advanced packaging demand
Huahsu, a semiconductor materials supplier established in 1997 through a joint investment by Japan's Asahi Kasei and Wah Lee, has launched a new capacity expansion plan as demand for...