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Wednesday 14 October 2026
China’s NEV export rebate cut puts budget EV makers under margin pressure
China will reduce its export tax rebate for new energy vehicles (NEVs) from 13% to 9% on April 1, 2027, increasing cost pressure on automakers, particularly those selling lower-priced...
Wednesday 14 October 2026
TCC wins approval for Europe listing plan
TCC Group Holdings (TCC) shareholders approved a plan on October 13 for subsidiary Cimpor International Holdings to pursue an initial public offering (IPO) and listing on a European...
Wednesday 14 October 2026
China's AI chipmakers target 3D packaging, optical interconnects and software ecosystems
China's domestic AI chipmakers are shifting their competitive focus from individual GPU performance to system-level integration as AI models grow increasingly complex. Three priorities—3D...
Wednesday 14 October 2026
Analysis: China's EV rebate cut pushes exporters from volume to value
China's planned cut to export tax rebates for new energy vehicles could ripple through global auto markets, intensifying pressure on low-cost exporters while reshaping trade tensions...
Wednesday 14 October 2026
NTT Data, Anthropic negotiate Japan data center with up to 500MW
NTT Data and Anthropic are in final-stage negotiations to develop a data center in Osaka, Japan, with power capacity of up to 500MW, according to Nikkei. The project would...
Wednesday 14 October 2026
Apple COO visits Foxconn as iPhone Duo production ramps up
Days before preorders open for Apple's first foldable smartphone, the iPhone Duo, Apple Chief Operating Officer Sabih Khan visited China to inspect its supply chain. On October 11,...
Wednesday 14 October 2026
AI memory boom pushes smartphone market into premium-first reset
While the rapid advancement of AI has driven steadily growing investment in large-scale infrastructure, one of its downstream effects is becoming increasingly visible in the memory...
Wednesday 14 October 2026
Linde LienHwa links HaaS ecosystem to drive industrial decarbonization
Industrial gas supplier Linde LienHwa is expanding its industrial decarbonization applications, with oxygen-enriched combustion technology adopted by Taiwan Cement, Walsin Lihwa, Jin...
Wednesday 14 October 2026
China's wafer-scale graphene breakthrough brings quantum rectifiers closer to semiconductor integration
Chinese researchers have demonstrated wafer-scale graphene quantum rectifiers that convert weak radio-frequency signals into DC electricity at room temperature without an external...
Tuesday 13 October 2026
SK Hynix unveils low-power processor design for SSDs
SK Hynix has unveiled a new processor architecture designed to reduce power consumption and chip area in solid-state drive (SSD) controllers, expanding its efforts to address storage...
Tuesday 13 October 2026
AMEC chairman warns of AI bubble risk, sees consolidation ahead for China's chip equipment industry
Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment (AMEC) chairman and general manager Gerald Yin has warned of a potential AI investment bubble, cautioning that surging demand for chipmaking equipment...
Tuesday 13 October 2026
AI demand squeezes capacitor, resistor capacity as Taiwan suppliers eye price hikes
Rising capital expenditures by global cloud service providers (CSPs) are accelerating orders for AI computing infrastructure, boosting both the specifications and volumes of passive...
Tuesday 13 October 2026
China's Blue Core Computing secures nearly US$300 million to challenge x86, Arm in AI servers
Shenzhen-based Blue Core Computing (Shenzhen) Technology has raised nearly CNY2 billion (≈ US$298.7 million) in Series B financing to accelerate production of its RISC-V server...
Tuesday 13 October 2026
Hua Hong deepens China chip equipment partnerships, targets stronger specialty foundry share by 2030
China's Hua Hong Group has signed strategic agreements with four domestic semiconductor equipment suppliers to accelerate the adoption of locally developed wafer fabrication tools,...
Tuesday 13 October 2026
Omron to buy US industrial PC maker OnLogic for US$675 million
Japan's Omron has agreed to acquire US industrial computer (IPC) maker OnLogic and its parent company, Interlogic, at an enterprise value of US$675 million, seeking to expand its presence...