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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
Uber expands ride-hailing reach across Taiwan as trips and local demand rise
Uber and its partner fleets expanded ride-hailing coverage in July 2026 to 19 counties and cities across Taiwan proper, underscoring how mobility platforms are reaching farther beyond...
Thursday 27 August 2026
Moody's lifts South Korea GDP forecast on hard-to-replace memory chips
Moody's has sharply raised its forecast for South Korea's 2026 economic growth to 3.5%, saying the country's semiconductor boom and export strength will last longer than expected and...
Thursday 27 August 2026
Ablecom takes control of Jochu to expand AI server rack, liquid cooling business
Ablecom Technology said it had joined a private placement for Jochu Technology and become the listed company's largest shareholder, giving the Taiwan-based chassis and thermal solutions...
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
Nvidia reportedly shifts HBM4 mix toward 8-high as memory supply stays tight

Nvidia has reportedly asked Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix to increase the share of 8-high products...

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...
Thursday 27 August 2026
Apple, Huawei foldables to collide in September, lifting ultra-thin glass, hinge and cooling demand
Huawei and Apple are set to intensify competition in foldable smartphones in September, accelerating demand across a supply chain spanning foldable OLED panels, ultra-thin glass, hinges,...
Thursday 27 August 2026
China open-source AI usage hits record high as DeepSeek leads
China's open-weight AI models have surged in usage and have now overtaken proprietary models for the first time. South China Morning Post (SCMP), citing data from US web development...
Thursday 27 August 2026
Research Insight: US humanoid supply chains pivot away from China as Taiwan moves from parts to actuator modules
As the humanoid robot supply chain moves closer to mass-production readiness, Taiwan's precision manufacturing sector is gaining new opportunities to enter the US market, according...
Thursday 27 August 2026
Beijing's AI4Chip plan puts AI to work on EDA, fabs, advanced packaging
Beijing is extending artificial intelligence deeper into semiconductor production, targeting chip design, wafer fabrication, packaging, testing, equipment, and materials under what...
Thursday 27 August 2026
Chinese GPUs head to space as MetaX payload begins in-orbit AI computing tests
Chinese GPU vendors are beginning to extend their applications beyond terrestrial computing and into space. The recently launched Yunjian Muxi satellite (Jitianxing A-04) carries an...
Thursday 27 August 2026
WRC 2026 signals a new humanoid robot race as competition shifts from bodies to embodied AI models
The 2026 World Robot Conference (WRC 2026) has concluded in Beijing. While the commercial prospects of humanoid robots remain a subject of debate, they once again took center stage...
Wednesday 26 August 2026
YMTC targets global NAND lead by 2027 as parent seeks US$5 billion IPO
Yangtze Memory Technologies (YMTC) is aiming to become the world's largest NAND flash supplier by the end of 2027, setting an aggressive target as its parent prepares a nearly US$5...