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Tuesday 21 July 2026
China's AI supernode race seeks systems edge through optics, packaging, and cloud scale

China's AI hardware race is shifting from individual accelerators to supernodes, optical interconnects, advanced packaging and cloud-scale...

Tuesday 21 July 2026
China's solar slump deepens, raising warning signs for energy storage and electric vehicles
China's solar industry is still trapped in a painful shakeout after three straight years of losses across much of the supply chain, according to first-half reports from leading companies...
Tuesday 21 July 2026
Memory shortage could turn into a glut by 2028 as chipmakers expand

A powerful rally in memory-chip stocks has stalled as investors reconsider whether record spending on AI data centers could eventually...

Tuesday 21 July 2026
LGES accelerates sodium-ion battery plans while CATL secures early ESS lead
LG Energy Solution plans to establish a sodium-ion battery mother line at its Ochang Energy Plant in South Korea in 2026, seeking to narrow CATL's early commercial lead in energy storage...
Tuesday 21 July 2026
Befar begins production of 6N hydrogen fluoride gas for chipmaking

Befar Group has begun producing semiconductor-grade hydrogen fluoride gas with a claimed purity of 6N, or 99.9999%, expanding the Chinese...

Monday 20 July 2026
China's AI smartphone race pits ZTE, StepFun, and Honor against limits of agentic computing

China's smartphone industry is turning agentic AI into its next growth narrative, with ZTE's Nubia, StepFun and Honor presenting sharply...

Monday 20 July 2026
Alibaba open-sources AI chip software, launches Zhenwu cloud supernode service
Alibaba Group's chip design unit, T-Head, has open-sourced the software stack behind its Zhenwu AI processors while extending the platform from individual accelerators into rack-scale...
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
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
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
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
MiTAC packs 96 AMD GPUs into 52U liquid-cooled rack
MiTAC Computing Technology, a subsidiary of MiTAC Holdings, showcased its server lineup and high-density liquid-cooled rack solutions at the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference...