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Monday 10 August 2026
OCI rides AI, space solar boom as SpaceX deepens polysilicon ties
South Korean solar polysilicon supplier OCI Holdings is capitalizing on its increasingly scarce position as a non-China supplier, benefiting not only from growing solar demand from...
Monday 10 August 2026
Moore Threads eyes HK listing after 147% revenue surge, AI GPU expansion

Chinese AI GPU developer Moore Threads is preparing a Hong Kong listing after first-half revenue jumped 147.42% year on year to CNY1.74...

Monday 10 August 2026
Apple tests CXMT memory chips as shortage, price pressures persist

Apple has tested DRAM from China's ChangXin Memory Technologies in iPhone and MacBook products as AI-driven memory shortages and rising...

Monday 10 August 2026
Cambricon AI chip revenue doubles as China demand surges, supply capacity holds key
Cambricon Technologies has largely settled the question of whether China's AI chip champion can make money. First-half 2026 revenue rose 108.13% to CNY6 billion (approx. US$890 million),...
Monday 10 August 2026
SK Hynix faces US patent fight over HBM, 3D NAND

SK Hynix is facing an expanding US patent dispute with MonolithIC 3D. A second US International Trade Commission (USITC) investigation...

Monday 10 August 2026
Semiconductor material prices surge across silicon wafers, specialty gases and advanced packaging
Demand for advanced processes and packaging continues to rise, while the Middle East conflict is lifting energy and raw-material costs and tighter Chinese controls on strategic-mineral...
Monday 10 August 2026
Ex-SK Hynix employee gets 18 months for leaking chip secrets to Chinese firms

The Seoul High Court has upheld an 18-month prison sentence for a former SK Hynix employee who leaked trade secrets tied to CMOS image...

Monday 10 August 2026
DeepSeek takes Unitree stake to pair AI models with humanoid robots

DeepSeek has invested CNY140.8 million (approx. US$20.8 million) in Unitree's Shanghai IPO and agreed to jointly develop AI models for...

Monday 10 August 2026
Kinko July revenue jumps to 12-year high on optical demand
Kinko Optical reported July consolidated revenue of NT$524 million, the highest level in nearly 12 years, as Taiwan's optical industry entered its peak season. The result rose 93.16%...
Monday 10 August 2026
Ability Enterprise July revenue hits decade high on stronger optical module shipments
Ability Enterprise posted July revenue of NT$1.159 billion, up 10.5% from June and 64% from a year earlier, reaching its highest monthly level since December 2016. The Taiwanese optics...
Monday 10 August 2026
Aurotek profit jumps on embodied AI and semiconductor automation demand
Aurotek Corporation reported stronger second-quarter and first-half 2026 results on August 6 as demand rose for embodied AI solutions, semiconductor foundry and advanced packaging...
Monday 10 August 2026
Column: Greening the Gobi Desert—how China built Inner Mongolia's wind power ecosystem

Driven by global net-zero commitments and China's "dual carbon" goals of peaking carbon emissions before achieving carbon neutrality,...

Monday 10 August 2026
South Korea charges into the humanoid robot race as conglomerates mobilize

The global humanoid robot race is heating up, with the US and China battling for technological and market leadership, but a third...

Monday 10 August 2026
China’s new renewable rules drive a surge in hydrogen investment
China’s tighter renewable-energy compliance rules have opened the way for green hydrogen, green ammonia, and green methanol to be included in the country’s minimum renewable-energy...
Sunday 9 August 2026
Commentary: From free flow to tight control — how tech talent became a national security asset

Tech talent has moved from being simply a hiring priority to a matter of national security. As major economies increasingly tie talent...