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Monday 25 May 2026
DeepSeek makes 75% API discount permanent, intensifying global AI price war

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has permanently reduced the API pricing of its flagship DeepSeek-V4-Pro model to one-quarter of its original...

Monday 25 May 2026
BOE seeks Galaxy S27 OLED panel order by undercutting Samsung Display by US$5
China-based BOE Technology Group is reportedly looking to supply OLED panels for the standard model of the Samsung Galaxy S27 smartphone by offering a price that is US$5 lower than...
Monday 25 May 2026
AI spending forces enterprises to shorten SaaS deals and demand new pricing protections
Rising enterprise investment in AI tools is prompting customers to compress traditional software-as-a-service contracts and extract stronger commercial protections, executives and...
Monday 25 May 2026
China's EV price war gives way to rising costs
China's electric-vehicle market is entering an unfamiliar phase: cars are getting more expensive.
Sunday 24 May 2026
China smartphone sales plunge 16% around May Day holidays as memory price hikes squeeze demand
China's smartphone sales fell 16% year‑over‑year during the two weeks surrounding the 2026 May Day holiday, a drop that signals wider implications for global supply chains...
Friday 22 May 2026
WPG Holdings flags server supply gaps amid memory price hikes, 800V shift
Amid the continued crowding-out effect of artificial intelligence (AI) demand, IC distributor WPG Holdings said memory shortages and rising prices are weakening end-product sales momentum,...
Friday 22 May 2026
Tech Forum 2026: As notebook and smartphone sales slow, AI devices take a larger share

Global notebook and smartphone shipments are expected to weaken in 2026, but AI-enabled devices are set to take a larger share of both...

Thursday 21 May 2026
GigaDevice sees niche DRAM and NAND prices rising through 2026
GigaDevice said tight supply and rising prices across DRAM, NOR Flash, and SLC NAND Flash continued to fuel strong first-quarter 2026 earnings growth, supported by recovering demand...
Wednesday 20 May 2026
Xiaomi halts ultra-thin smartphone production as memory costs squeeze prices
Xiaomi warns memory costs could push flagship phone prices past CNY10,000 (approx. US$1,468) in 2026, a development that would affect global consumers as higher-capacity models become...
Wednesday 20 May 2026
Apple's memory bargaining power weakens amid AI-driven supply squeeze, Korean media says
South Korean media commentary has highlighted a structural shift in Apple's influence over memory chip pricing, arguing that its long-standing bargaining power over suppliers is weakening...
Wednesday 20 May 2026
Phison taps overseas bond market for US$800 million storage push

Phison Electronics has completed pricing for its first overseas unsecured convertible bond sale, raising US$800 million as the NAND controller...

Tuesday 19 May 2026
Foundry, test costs push PMIC price hikes toward 12-inch wafers
Rising manufacturing costs at upstream foundries and back-end packaging and testing are pushing power management IC (PMIC) makers toward price increases, with global implications for...
Tuesday 19 May 2026
ITE Tech awaits PC, NB visibility as price hikes begin in 2H26
ITE Tech's stable first-quarter results and planned price increases from the second half of 2026 signal potential cost pass-through across global PC, notebook, and embedded markets,...
Tuesday 19 May 2026
Samsung, SK Hynix face chipmaking chemical squeeze as China feedstock costs surge
Prices for semiconductor-grade hydrogen fluoride supplied to Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix are expected to rise sharply between late June and July, as higher costs for a key China-sourced...