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Thursday 20 August 2026
Analysis: Unitree IPO exposes the economics behind China's humanoid robot boom

Unitree Robotics' August 19 debut on Shanghai's STAR Market did more than crown China's first mainland-listed humanoid robot maker....

Thursday 20 August 2026
Xiaomi's robotics ambitions reveal the next battleground for industrial AI

As artificial intelligence expands from digital environments into physical operations, embodied intelligence is emerging as a new frontier...

Thursday 20 August 2026
WRC 2026: Unitree GD01 mecha, Ubtech bionic U1 headline China's humanoid robot showcase

The 2026 World Robot Conference (WRC) recently opened in Beijing, with humanoid robots remaining the event's biggest focus. With China...

Thursday 20 August 2026
Nvidia and AMD chase US open model lead as China shifts race
Hugging Face's latest summer 2026 open model report says Chinese labs have continued to lead in frontier open-model parameter scale since 2026, while the US center of competition has...
Thursday 20 August 2026
Fudan Microelectronics profit jumps 339%, FPGA localisation gains traction
Shanghai Fudan Microelectronics Group reported a sharp first-half earnings increase in 2026, helped by stronger semiconductor demand, rising sales across its chip portfolio and investment...
Thursday 20 August 2026
CXMT planned to use Samsung process data to develop DRAM, ex-engineer says
A former Samsung Electronics researcher has testified that ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) intended from its earliest days to develop DRAM using Samsung process data, an account...
Thursday 20 August 2026
LandSpace nails China's first private orbital booster landing, advancing reusable rocket race

Chinese commercial space startup LandSpace successfully launched its Zhuque-3 Y2 carrier rocket on August 19 from the Dongfeng Commercial...

Thursday 20 August 2026
YMTC parent advances IPO as NAND share hits 14% and AI storage scales
Yangtze Memory Technologies Holding, the parent of Chinese NAND flash maker YMTC, has completed a key stage of its pre-IPO process just as the memory maker gains global market share,...
Thursday 20 August 2026
Xiaomi's AI-EV Pivot gains momentum as memory costs pressure Q226 smartphone business
Xiaomi is accelerating its transition from a smartphone-focused electronics manufacturer toward a broader technology ecosystem company, as artificial intelligence (AI), electric vehicles...
Thursday 20 August 2026
AI chip strategies echo StarCraft factions as memory bottleneck reshapes the race

The global semiconductor ecosystem is facing an unprecedented shortage of memory chips, with hardware growth increasingly constrained...

Thursday 20 August 2026
AI models show softer responses on authoritarian leaders, report finds
U.S.-based AI models were found to avoid direct criticism of authoritarian leaders more often than democratic ones, according to a July report from the Meta-funded Oversight Board...
Wednesday 19 August 2026
China accelerates Microsoft Windows 10 exit from state systems
China is accelerating efforts to remove foreign technology from sensitive state-linked systems, ordering some government-affiliated entities to uninstall a customised version of Microsoft...
Wednesday 19 August 2026
Nvidia H200 chips reach China as imports remain limited
ByteDance and Tencent have each received about 10,000 Nvidia H200 processors in mainland China in recent weeks, the Financial Times reported, marking the clearest sign yet...
Wednesday 19 August 2026
GigaDevice profit surges 1,092% on memory upcycle, niche DRAM and NAND gains
GigaDevice Semiconductor posted record first-half 2026 results, with tight memory supply and rising prices across niche products lifting earnings well beyond its full-year 2025 lev...
Wednesday 19 August 2026
EU tightens recycled-content rules as material traceability becomes a new battery market barrier
The European Union is moving to tighten recycling requirements for rechargeable batteries, including electric vehicle batteries, industrial energy storage batteries, and automotive...