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Thursday 20 August 2026
WRC 2026: Unitree GD01 mecha, Ubtech bionic U1 headline China's humanoid robot showcase

The 2026 World Robot Conference (WRC) recently opened in Beijing, with humanoid robots remaining the event's biggest focus. With China...

Thursday 20 August 2026
Nvidia and AMD chase US open model lead as China shifts race
Hugging Face's latest summer 2026 open model report says Chinese labs have continued to lead in frontier open-model parameter scale since 2026, while the US center of competition has...
Thursday 20 August 2026
Fudan Microelectronics profit jumps 339%, FPGA localisation gains traction
Shanghai Fudan Microelectronics Group reported a sharp first-half earnings increase in 2026, helped by stronger semiconductor demand, rising sales across its chip portfolio and investment...
Thursday 20 August 2026
CXMT planned to use Samsung process data to develop DRAM, ex-engineer says
A former Samsung Electronics researcher has testified that ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) intended from its earliest days to develop DRAM using Samsung process data, an account...
Thursday 20 August 2026
LG targets 100,000 hours of robot training data ahead of 2027 humanoid debut
LG Electronics is scaling up its robot training infrastructure with Nvidia, targeting 100,000 hours of real and synthetic data by the end of 2026 as it pushes its physical AI strategy...
Thursday 20 August 2026
Solomon unveils AI vision tools for smart manufacturing at Automation Taipei 2026

AI vision company Solomon is presenting new factory automation tools at Automation Taipei 2026, including an agentic physical AI platform,...

Thursday 20 August 2026
Intel Malaysia packaging expansion draws HBM flows from Taiwan

South Korean export data showed a sharp shift in high-bandwidth memory, or HBM, shipments toward Malaysia and away from Taiwan, according...

Thursday 20 August 2026
LandSpace nails China's first private orbital booster landing, advancing reusable rocket race

Chinese commercial space startup LandSpace successfully launched its Zhuque-3 Y2 carrier rocket on August 19 from the Dongfeng Commercial...

Thursday 20 August 2026
Samsung repays 20 trillion won SDC loan early as memory demand surges

Samsung Electronics fully repaid a KRW20 trillion unsecured loan from Samsung Display ahead of schedule in the second quarter of 2026,...

Thursday 20 August 2026
YMTC parent advances IPO as NAND share hits 14% and AI storage scales
Yangtze Memory Technologies Holding, the parent of Chinese NAND flash maker YMTC, has completed a key stage of its pre-IPO process just as the memory maker gains global market share,...
Thursday 20 August 2026
Sunplus expects automotive orders to rise in 3Q26 as memory costs threaten demand

Taiwanese IC design house Sunplus Technology expects its automotive orders to strengthen further in the third quarter of 2026, but warned...

Thursday 20 August 2026
Xiaomi's AI-EV Pivot gains momentum as memory costs pressure Q226 smartphone business
Xiaomi is accelerating its transition from a smartphone-focused electronics manufacturer toward a broader technology ecosystem company, as artificial intelligence (AI), electric vehicles...
Thursday 20 August 2026
AI chip strategies echo StarCraft factions as memory bottleneck reshapes the race

The global semiconductor ecosystem is facing an unprecedented shortage of memory chips, with hardware growth increasingly constrained...

Thursday 20 August 2026
AI models show softer responses on authoritarian leaders, report finds
U.S.-based AI models were found to avoid direct criticism of authoritarian leaders more often than democratic ones, according to a July report from the Meta-funded Oversight Board...
Wednesday 19 August 2026
China accelerates Microsoft Windows 10 exit from state systems
China is accelerating efforts to remove foreign technology from sensitive state-linked systems, ordering some government-affiliated entities to uninstall a customised version of Microsoft...