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Thursday 27 August 2026
Trump declares emergency over foreign grid equipment, likely eyeing Chinese power hardware
US President Donald Trump signed an executive order on August 26 declaring a national emergency over the security of America's electrical grid. It restricts the purchase, import, and...
Thursday 27 August 2026
MiniMax revenue surges 283% as enterprise adoption increases
Chinese AI startup MiniMax Group reported a 283.1% increase in revenue, rising from US$30.4 million for the six months ended June 30, 2025, to US$116.6 million for the six months ended...
Thursday 27 August 2026
Malaysia's charging shortfall opens the door for Chinese hardware players
Southeast Asia's EV market is expected to reach US$23.58 billion by 2031, with a 2026-2031 CAGR of 31.55%. But Malaysia's charging infrastructure is falling well behind government...
Thursday 27 August 2026
Malaysia's EV market sharpens, local brands face off against Chinese rivals
Hybrid and plug-in hybrid demand continues to grow across ASEAN, with Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand posting the strongest sales gains. The shift is drawing local Southeast Asian...
Thursday 27 August 2026
Commentary: YMTC's high-profile IPO masks three long-term hurdles
Yangtze Memory Technologies (YMTC) has officially kicked off its STAR Market IPO process. In the first quarter of 2026, China's largest 3D NAND Flash manufacturer delivered an impressive...
Thursday 27 August 2026
Washington's silicon-anode bet tests whether battery innovation can break China's graphite grip
The years-long tug-of-war between the US and China has witnessed a head-on showdown over technological might, as stringent export controls and tightening restrictions continue to push...
Thursday 27 August 2026
Nvidia H200 China sales stall, with US$400M inventory charge
Nvidia said in its fiscal 2027 second-quarter results on the 27th that it sold a small number of H200 artificial intelligence (AI) processors to Chinese customers last quarter, marking...
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...
Thursday 27 August 2026
China's AI software strategy gains scale as OpenHarmony ecosystem tops 1.35 billion devices
China is placing artificial intelligence, industrial software and open-source ecosystems at the centre of its next phase of manufacturing digitalisation, seeking to strengthen domestic...
Thursday 27 August 2026
CXMT DDR5 closes in on SK Hynix at 8,000 MT/s, benchmark gap falls below 1%
CXMT is narrowing the performance gap with SK Hynix in high-speed DDR5 memory, with new benchmark tests showing CXMT chips running stably at 8,000 MT/s and delivering productivity...
Thursday 27 August 2026
CXMT lands early LPDDR6 opportunity with Xiaomi Xring O3, eyes China flagship phones
China's smartphone and memory supply chains are moving closer together, with Xiaomi's new Xring O3 processor potentially providing CXMT with an early commercial entry into the LPDDR6...
Thursday 27 August 2026
Tesla goes local in China, swapping Grok for ByteDance's Doubao LLM in smart cockpits
Tesla once tried to license its electrification and automated driving technologies to mainstream automakers through tech-transfer agreements, but none of those deals materialized....
Thursday 27 August 2026
China OLED buildout lifts Korean equipment sales as backlogs grow
Chinese panel makers' investment in next-generation OLED production is beginning to translate into reported sales at South Korean equipment suppliers, with several vendors posting...
Thursday 27 August 2026
Xiaomi's Xring O3, O100 and D100 define a three-tier AI chip strategy beyond smartphones
Xiaomi is expanding Xring from a smartphone chip program into a broader AI computing platform spanning consumer devices, vehicles, and edge inference, with three processors assigned...
Thursday 27 August 2026
China's foundries have won the mature-node argument, not the self-sufficiency one
China's contract chipmakers spent the first half of 2026 proving something narrower than the headlines suggest. They demonstrated that domestic fabs can run at full capacity, raise...