China and the Netherlands agreed that their governments should create a favorable environment for companies to resolve the Nexperia dispute through consultation, China's Ministry of Commerce said July 16.

OnePlus is exiting the North American and European markets for its future product launches, while sales of new Realme products will be suspended within its home market of China. The changes to both Oppo sub-brands signal the challenges low- to mid-tier brands face amid rising component costs and a tough global smartphone market this year.

Powertech Technology is deepening its panel-level packaging (FOPLP) strategy after its board approved a joint venture with Broadcom in Singapore to build panel-level advanced packaging (PLP) manufacturing capacity, with the planned investment totaling US$400 million.

ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) opened subscriptions for its STAR Market IPO on July 16, launching one of China's largest A-share listings of 2026 and marking the country's first complete DRAM journey from technology acquisition and manufacturing validation to mass production and capital market recognition.

ChangXin Memory Technologies' (CXMT) STAR Market IPO is more than just one of China's biggest semiconductor listings. It also marks the culmination of Zhu Yiming's two-decade effort to build a domestic memory industry, taking the entrepreneur from founding flash memory designer GigaDevice to creating China's first globally competitive DRAM maker.

The global tech landscape is currently dominated by two massive tides: the race for semiconductor supremacy and the long-promised dawn of the quantum era. While quantum technology is often associated with the distant goal of large-scale computing, a German startup is proving that quantum's most immediate impact may actually be in saving inspection time for the global semiconductor industry that powers the modern world.