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Wednesday 23 September 2026
Commentary: Zhengfei Ren rumors expose a deeper chill across China's tech sector

Online rumors that Huawei founder Zhengfei Ren and his family had disappeared from public view have reignited concern over the fate...

Wednesday 23 September 2026
US energy storage faces a costly China battery exit
The US is accelerating its shift toward domestic battery manufacturing as the energy storage market expands, but the market's current growth still depends heavily on low-cost Chinese...
Wednesday 23 September 2026
Micron's Taiwan fab took 300,000 cubic meters of concrete. Its supplier sees more coming

Taiwanese concrete-maker Goldsun Building Materials said its Miaoli plant has benefited from rising construction demand tied to AI,...

Wednesday 23 September 2026
Seven Chinese AI companies hit US$10.7 billion ARR, but the harder race is paying for scale

China's leading AI developers are scaling revenue rapidly, but the gap with their US rivals remains substantial — and the cost...

Wednesday 23 September 2026
Ascend 950 clears higher security bar in China's latest chip assessment: who else qualified?
China has tightened the security and reliability framework around its domestic computing stack, with the latest official evaluation placing Huawei's Ascend 950 at Level II and Kunlunxin's...
Tuesday 22 September 2026
Vivo unveils X500 strategy to bolster premium phone push

Vivo unveiled its new X500 series imaging flagship phones in Shanghai on September 21, 2026, aiming to build a stronger moat in mobile...

Tuesday 22 September 2026
Tmytek lists on Taiwan Innovation Board, pushes 5G/6G, satellite, defense

Millimeter-wave communications technology and solutions provider TMY Technology (Tmytek) officially listed on Taiwan's Innovation Board...

Tuesday 22 September 2026
China prepares business delegation as Xi seeks steadier US trade ties

China is preparing a business delegation for President Xi Jinping's Washington visit as Beijing pursues more predictable trade relations...

Tuesday 22 September 2026
Unitree targets humanoid robots' next bottleneck with 22-DoF Dex5-S hand
Humanoid robot makers are accelerating investment in dexterous hands as the component becomes increasingly important to fine manipulation. Chinese robotics company Unitree Robotics...
Tuesday 22 September 2026
Hanmi Semiconductor ships first FC Bonder 75 for 2.5D packaging
Hanmi Semiconductor said on September 22 that it has shipped its first FC Bonder 75 to a customer, expanding the South Korean equipment maker's reach beyond high-bandwidth memory (HBM)...
Tuesday 22 September 2026
Alibaba speeds V900 rollout, targeting 20GW of data centers
Alibaba Group is accelerating the rollout of its next-generation Zhenwu V900 accelerator by about six months as it expands a vertically integrated computing platform spanning processors,...
Tuesday 22 September 2026
Taiwan virtual asset law to help lower supply chain transaction costs

Taiwan's Legislative Yuan passed the Virtual Asset Service Act in June 2026, and Taiwan's Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) is...

Tuesday 22 September 2026
DeepSeek bets on Huawei chips for model training as Nvidia's China sales slip

DeepSeek CEO Liang Wenfeng said during a call with investors that he aims to rely on Huawei chips to train the startup's models in the...

Tuesday 22 September 2026
DEEPX targets smart glasses with low-power NPU, eyes 6G AI RAN
South Korean AI semiconductor company DEEPX is reportedly conducting a proof of concept with a US smart glasses company to test whether its low-power neural processing unit (NPU) can...
Tuesday 22 September 2026
Chinese automakers step up battery in-house push to reclaim cost control

As Li Auto, NIO, Xiaomi, Geely, GAC, GWM, Chongqing Changan Automobile, and Chery step up efforts to develop and manufacture batteries...