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Tuesday 15 September 2026
China's EV boom enters a phase of overcapacity cleanup
Within a relatively short span of time, China has built a formidable EV industry that has proved difficult for any other country to match globally, nurtured by years of industrial policy, infrastructure investment and government support.
Tuesday 15 September 2026
China reshapes cockpit display race, set to produce 84% of global AR-HUDs by 2031

S&P Global Mobility senior research analyst for connected cars and user experience in Asia-Pacific Quan Zhang shared the latest forecasts for the cockpit display and head-up display (HUD) markets.

Thursday 10 September 2026
Beyond the stage, can XPeng's EV playbook scale humanoid robots?
As humanoid robotics glides — in its own distinctive glamour — toward becoming one of the most visible manifestations of physical AI, the once-unimaginable idea of where humanoid capabilities might fit into the social world has begun to take on a much clearer definition.
Wednesday 9 September 2026
Huawei Qiankun turns 2 million cars into its next assisted-driving advantage

Huawei's automotive technology business has crossed a new scale threshold, with both Huawei Qiankun Intelligent Driving and HarmonySpace surpassing 2 million installations, while the Huawei Qiankun app has also reached 2 million users.

Wednesday 9 September 2026
Tesla's Cybercab hits the road, but regulation may become autonomy's next scaling bottleneck
Tesla has finally put its purpose-built Cybercab onto public streets, marking a critical step in Elon Musk's years-long ambition to transform the EV maker into an autonomous mobility company.
Tuesday 8 September 2026
LG bets on in-cabin AI agents as South Korea races to catch China in autonomous driving
Rapid advances in China's autonomous-driving technology are increasing pressure on South Korea's auto industry to catch up, and LG Electronics is responding by expanding its push from in-cabin AI experiences and AI agents to an AI-SDV platform as it seeks a foothold in the emerging AI-defined vehicle (AIDV) market.
Friday 4 September 2026
Analysis: Physical AI upgrades autonomous driving and lifts Taiwan supply chains
As end-to-end (E2E) autonomous driving architectures gradually become mainstream, the inference demands of physical AI are driving radical transformations in automotive system-on-chip (SoC) design. DIGITIMES Intelligence analyst Jasper Jiang notes that neural processing units (NPUs), or dedicated AI accelerators, are becoming the core processing engines of next-generation automotive SoCs to satisfy three stringent demands of AI inference in autonomous driving: ultra-low latency, reduced system power consumption, and minimized memory bottlenecks.
Wednesday 2 September 2026
'Chinamaxxing' fuels China tech tourism as visitors flood Huaqiangbei
In the summer of 2026, the term "Chinamaxxing" has gone viral on overseas social media, reflecting a trend among young people, especially Gen Z in the West, who openly praise China and a China-style way of life. The trend is drawing foreign visitors to sites such as Xiaomi's EV superfactory, Wenchang Beach rocket launches, and Shenzhen's Huaqiangbei, where they shop for "Made in China" tech.
Tuesday 1 September 2026
Autonomous driving expands into Physical AI, creating new openings for Taiwan firms
The autonomous driving industry is gaining momentum as advances in AI, sensing and semiconductor technologies expand opportunities in vehicle computing, machine vision and Physical AI. At Taiwan-based Turing Drive's eighth-anniversary press event, longtime partners Vecow and oToBrite shared their perspectives on the evolution of autonomous vehicles, in-vehicle computing and robotics.
Monday 31 August 2026
AI pushes autonomous driving toward a more pragmatic commercial model
AI is reshaping the autonomous driving competition by shifting automakers away from an all-or-nothing race toward higher levels of self-driving. Instead, the industry is focusing on Level 2+ systems that mimic Level 3 performance, while building data, revenue, and regulatory groundwork that could matter for drivers and markets worldwide.
Friday 28 August 2026
LG Innotek wins Zoox camera module order for robotaxi production
LG Innotek said it will mass produce and supply automotive camera modules for Zoox, Amazon's autonomous vehicle unit. The deal marks the Korean component maker's first mass production win for a robotaxi camera module and extends a partnership that began during Zoox's early development phase.
Thursday 27 August 2026
Ford adopts Apple Maps data for next-gen smart driving
Ford Motor Company has announced that it will be adopting Apple's MapKit for Automotive software development kit (SDK) for its own universal EV platform, and feed Apple Maps data to its Latitude AI team, which is working on its next-gen BlueCruise advanced driver assistance system (ADAS). The move reflects a broader willingness among automakers to incorporate data and tools from big tech into their core vehicle systems, and marks a shift from the former hostility between automakers and tech companies into pragmatic collaboration, as the global auto industry seeks to speed up its smart transformation.
Thursday 27 August 2026
China shifts autonomous driving liability to automakers in draft traffic law
China is moving to address one of autonomous driving's most contentious and long-unresolved questions: when a Level 3 advanced automated driving system is engaged and a traffic violation or crash occurs, should the driver or the automaker bear responsibility? Beijing appears inclined to align with the classification standards set by SAE International (Society of Automotive Engineers), shifting liability to the automaker while Level 3 functions are active.
Thursday 27 August 2026
Tesla doubles down on custom AI chips as Musk claims AI5 can beat NVIDIA on efficiency and cost
Tesla CEO Elon Musk recently said the company's upcoming AI5 inference chip could deliver two to three times the performance per watt of Nvidia products when deployed in autonomous vehicles and Optimus humanoid robots, potentially at just around 10% of the cost.
Wednesday 26 August 2026
China's EV giants redraw their boundaries as physical AI becomes its own business
The surprising convergence at the intersection of two fundamental applications of embodied AI — EVs and robotics — has given rise to an intensifying trend across both sectors. The supply chain is witnessing a major power imbalance unfold, alongside increasingly blurred lines in product lifecycles and, ultimately, an economic restructuring of broader supply-chain dynamics.
Saturday 22 August 2026
Interview: Arbe Robotics on why radar is needed for autonomous driving and beyond
Autonomous driving technology is maturing, and a future in which cars entirely drive themselves is quickly approaching in the rearview mirror. Yet safety and trust remain crucial barriers to overcome before fully autonomous driving becomes a reality, and a key part of this is the "eyes" of the car.
Friday 21 August 2026
TIER IV and Renesas team up on open AI-native computing platform for autonomous vehicles
A new collaboration between TIER IV and Renesas could shape how self-driving and software-defined vehicles are built worldwide, as automakers seek more flexible platforms for AI-driven features. The effort aims to combine open-source software, advanced chips, and scalable tools that may accelerate safer mobility across markets from Asia to Europe to North America.
Thursday 20 August 2026
Why Chinese automakers are racing into humanoid robots
As subsidies for China's new energy vehicle market gradually wind down and automaker margins continue to narrow, Beijing is shifting policy support toward embodied AI and humanoid robotics. That change is encouraging Chinese automakers to redeploy technologies originally developed for smart EVs and accelerate their push into humanoid robots.
Wednesday 19 August 2026
LG's raw material costs jump by over KRW1 trillion in 1H26, auto components hit hardest

Rising chip and copper prices are rapidly increasing cost pressure on LG Electronics.

Wednesday 19 August 2026
Tesla's Cybercab rollout tests whether purpose-built robotaxis can move beyond pilot scale

Tesla's push to deepen its presence in the autonomous vehicle market through a new phase of its Robotaxi deployment has drawn renewed industry attention, as the company aims to bring fully autonomous taxis closer to commercial reality this August.

Tuesday 18 August 2026
Russia fuels China's ICE exports while Europe's NEV figures mask transshipment demand
China's accelerating auto export boom reveals two trends that challenge conventional assumptions. First, Russia—China's largest single export market—is still overwhelmingly driven by internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles. Second, while new energy vehicle (NEV) exports are concentrated in South America and Europe, some headline export figures do not necessarily reflect actual end-market demand.
Saturday 15 August 2026
MicroIP sees second-half revenue lift as board approves cash raise
MICROIP, which focuses on AI software design services and ASIC design services, said its first-half 2026 financial report showed continued investment in core technologies and key IP. The company also disclosed that its board approved a cash capital increase to support working capital and ongoing development as more projects move into production and delivery.
Wednesday 12 August 2026
Tesla emerges as biggest winner from Germany's EV subsidies, while China-made models gain ground
Whether Germany's renewed electric vehicle (EV) subsidies are inadvertently helping Chinese brands accelerate their push into Europe has become a closely watched issue across the global auto industry.
Friday 7 August 2026
Integrated ecosystems become focus of AI-driven smart vehicle development
The global automobile industry has been at the cusp of a critical transition into electrification and smart technologies, and the focus of future competition in the industry will move beyond mere performance to software-hardware integration, smart applications, and the building of cross-industry ecosystems, according to Larry Chang, director of planning and research and head of automobile electrification outreach at the Mechanical and Mechatronics Systems Research Labs (MMSL) of the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI).
Friday 7 August 2026
Why countering drones is the ultimate stress test for on-device AI

Drones, robots and self-driving vehicles are becoming the new proving ground for artificial intelligence. Machines are taking on more decision-making themselves, rather than relying on the cloud. The reason is speed. When a system has to react in milliseconds, waiting on a round trip to external servers is not an option, whether it's avoiding a collision or detecting an unauthorized drone. Elan Microelectronics chairman I-hau Yeh says this shift, moving AI processing from edge computing directly onto the device itself, is becoming essential for unmanned systems. Few applications demand more speed and accuracy than counter-unmanned aircraft systems, or C-UAS: technology built to detect and respond to unauthorized drones.