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Friday 19 December 2025

China approves first L3 autonomous EVs for production, signaling gradual regulatory easing

China's push to dominate the future of intelligent transport reached a milestone this week as the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology...

Friday 19 December 2025

TCC urges strict import checks to protect low-carbon cement industry in Taiwan

Low-priced imported cement continues to undermine Taiwan's domestic low-carbon cement development, prompting TCC Group Holdings chairman Nelson An-ping Chang to propose two key recommendations...

Friday 19 December 2025

US loses ground in open-source AI as Chinese models gain traction

Several experts have raised concerns that while the US maintains leadership in advanced artificial intelligence (AI) models, it is lagging behind in open-source AI development. American...

Thursday 18 December 2025

LG Energy Solution terminates US$6.5 billion EV battery contract with Ford amid demand concerns

LG Energy Solution (LGES) has ended a major electric vehicle (EV) battery supply agreement with Ford Motor Company valued at about KRW9.6 trillion (approx. US$6.53 billion). The termination...

Thursday 18 December 2025

The Nexperia fallout: Honda's factories go quiet in fresh blow to supply chain

Honda Motor Company announced on Wednesday that it would suspend or reduce production at several factories in Japan and China starting late this...

Thursday 18 December 2025

China hikes drone part prices to Russia amid growing reliance

Chinese suppliers have significantly increased the prices of drone components and dual-use technology exported to Russia, according to trade data that highlights Moscow's growing vulnerability...

Thursday 18 December 2025

China's AMD- and Nvidia-bred GPU rivals meet on the IPO stage

As global demand for AI computing power intensifies, China's domestic GPU sector has reached a milestone. Following Moore Threads' successful IPO earlier this month, MetaX, a GPU developer...

Thursday 18 December 2025

AMD CEO pledges greater investment in China amid efforts to boost US-China chip cooperation

AMD CEO Lisa Su has announced plans to increase investment in China during a recent visit aimed at strengthening collaboration in the semiconductor and artificial intelligence sectors...

Thursday 18 December 2025

China's polarizer consolidation cools capacity growth, easing price pressure in 2026

China hosts the world's largest display panel capacity, pulling upstream suppliers into an increasingly concentrated ecosystem. In polarizers, a string of acquisitions has pushed China...

Thursday 18 December 2025

Rapidus launches AI design tools to support 2nm semiconductor development

On December 17, Rapidus announced a new suite of AI-based semiconductor design tools under its Rapidus AI-Assisted Design Solution (Raads), aimed at supporting the company's Rapid...

Thursday 18 December 2025

Samsung and SK Hynix push PIM-enabled memory to address AI bottlenecks

As AI inference workloads grow and models expand rapidly, Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix are advancing high-bandwidth memory (HBM) technologies while integrating processing-in-memory...

Thursday 18 December 2025

Trump admin positions humanoid robots as critical front in US-China tech competition

Five months after launching an accelerated artificial intelligence (AI) development plan, the Trump administration is shifting its focus to robotics. Following semiconductors and AI,...

Thursday 18 December 2025

China's EUV prototype forces a rethink of the AI chip order

China has quietly crossed a psychological and potentially strategic threshold in the global semiconductor race. In a tightly controlled laboratory in Shenzhen, Chinese scientists have...

Thursday 18 December 2025

The price of 'China Speed': Auto suppliers squeezed in a brutal price war

For the global automotive electronics industry, the Chinese market has become a glittering trap: a massive, indispensable arena of innovation that is simultaneously cannibalizing the...

Thursday 18 December 2025

Xiaomi unveils MiMo-V2-Flash open-source model to enhance human-car-home ecosystem

At the recent "Human X Car X Home" partner conference, Xiaomi's MiMo model team leader Luo Fuli introduced the open-source MiMo-V2-Flash model, designed to boost agent execution capabilities...

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