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Wednesday 30 September 2026
Interview: iFLYTEK Medical sees clinical integration as key to healthcare AI expansion in South Korea
Xunfei Healthcare (iFLYTEK Medical), the healthcare AI arm of China's iFlytek, is using its Spark Medical Large Model to support diagnosis and medical record generation while tackling...
Wednesday 30 September 2026
Samsung SDI targets AI data centers with cylindrical LFP batteries and fire-propagation safeguards
Samsung SDI is accelerating its push into the artificial intelligence (AI) data center battery market, unveiling, for the first time, a cylindrical lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery...
Wednesday 30 September 2026
Jensen Huang, Lisa Su join Tsinghua University advisory board, putting AI chip leaders closer to Beijing

Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang and AMD chair and CEO Lisa Su have joined the advisory board of Tsinghua University's School of Economics and...

Wednesday 30 September 2026
NSIG chair exit brings leadership succession into focus
National Silicon Industry Group (NSIG) chairman Haitao Jiang has resigned from all positions at the company, prompting the Shanghai-listed semiconductor materials supplier to begin...
Wednesday 30 September 2026
China's generative AI user base tops 700 million, driving adoption into manufacturing and humanoid robots
Generative AI adoption in China continues to expand. The China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) said in its 2026 Generative AI Application Development Report, released on...
Wednesday 30 September 2026
Commentary: What risks does China's DRAM capacity face amid tightening market?
China's continued expansion of DRAM capacity has raised a key question for the global memory market: will supply and demand flip?
Wednesday 30 September 2026
US-China trade truce extension draws orders back to China, threatening Taiwanese booking volumes
Following US President Donald Trump's visit to China for a summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping from May 13 to 15, 2026, President Xi accepted an invitation to make a state visit...
Wednesday 30 September 2026
Magnesium prices fall below aluminum as EV makers look to cut weight
Automakers looking to cut the weight of electric vehicles (EVs) to extend driving range have another reason to consider magnesium alloys: magnesium ingots are now cheaper than aluminum...
Wednesday 30 September 2026
Foundry 2.0 revenue hits record as growth spreads beyond TSMC
Global Foundry 2.0 market revenue reached a record US$96.6 billion in the second quarter of 2026, up 25% year-over-year and 11% sequentially, as semiconductor demand tied to data-center...
Wednesday 30 September 2026
Linde secures Sanand land as global materials suppliers race to localize for India's first fabs
India's chip push is drawing the materials layer of the supply chain onshore. With Tata Electronics' Dholera fab and a cluster of packaging plants in Sanand under way, suppliers of...
Wednesday 30 September 2026
Tesla secures US$30B credit package to fuel AI and robot capex race
Tesla disclosed on September 29 that it has arranged US$30 billion in new loans and credit facilities as it ramps up investment in AI and robotics, according to a regulatory filing...
Wednesday 30 September 2026
CXMT expansion meets surging GigaDevice DRAM demand, sharpening China's memory supply-chain buildout
CXMT's continued DRAM capacity expansion is coinciding with stronger demand from China's domestic memory sector.
Wednesday 30 September 2026
Samsung expects HPC to account for 66% of foundry business by 2029
Samsung Electronics expects high-performance computing (HPC) to account for 66% of its foundry business by 2029, up from 28% currently, as the company shifts its contract chipmaking...
Wednesday 30 September 2026
Googlebook, QwenBook bring agentic AI to the PC system layer, opening new chip opportunities

Qualcomm unveiled no new PC chips at Snapdragon Summit 2026, but its PC strategy remained firmly in focus.

Wednesday 30 September 2026
India bars Semicon 2.0 chip plants from selling or mortgaging assets before full production
India has barred semiconductor projects approved under its Semicon 2.0 program from selling, disposing of, or mortgaging project assets until commercial production of the entire project...