SK Hynix is using Big Tech's rush to secure artificial intelligence (AI) memory supply as leverage for tougher long-term contracts, while resisting funding structures that could give major customers influence over its fabs or equipment

China has brought AI chips into its national security and reliability evaluation framework for the first time, turning what looks like a product certification process into something more consequential: an emerging gatekeeping system for AI computing infrastructure

Huawei's "Tau (τ) Scaling Law," unveiled at ISCAS 2026 on May 25, has become a global semiconductor flashpoint, drawing scrutiny from financial institutions, media outlets, chip analysts, and research firms

Chinese electronics manufacturer Luxshare said it is strengthening its antitrust compliance system after China's market regulator imposed a fine related to its acquisition of part of Wingtech's business operations

Chinese display maker Visionox is moving ahead with a major extended reality display production project in Kunshan, strengthening China's push into high-pixel-density OLED panels for AR and VR devices

China's large language model (LLM) market is coming under mounting pricing pressure, as domestic AI model developers cut fees closer to cost, while the gap with international model pricing widens to dozens of times

China's smartphone market showed signs of stabilization in April 2026, with both overall handset shipments and smartphone shipments returning to year-over-year growth, according to new figures released by the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT)

China has expanded its state travel controls into the private technology sector, deliberately blocking top AI talent from leaving the country without explicit government authorization

Samsung Electronics is preparing to expand its foundry push into physical AI semiconductors through a chiplet platform developed with Cadence, targeting chips for robotics, automotive systems, drones, and industrial automation, ETNews reported, citing industry sources

Chinese humanoid robot maker Unitree Robotics is moving quickly toward an initial public offering, but its latest prospectus points to the commercial challenges still facing the sector

As Chinese automakers intensify a global price war, South Korea's Hyundai Motor Group is responding on two fronts at once: accelerating its push into autonomous mobility while pressing suppliers for sweeping cost cuts that could reshape its manufacturing ecosystem

China has formally brought AI chips into its national security and reliability evaluation framework for the first time, marking a further expansion of the country's Information Technology Application Innovation procurement policy into AI computing infrastructure

A former Tencent large-model technical chief warned that Chinese artificial intelligence companies lack independent paradigm-level breakthroughs and are trailing US rivals, according to an interview with the South China Morning Post. He said the gap in large language model technology was about three months and could widen to six months by year-end as OpenAI prepares to launch GPT 5.6, and that US chip export controls had reduced China's available computing power for training advanced models