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Wednesday 8 July 2026
Volkswagen faces defining test as board weighs sweeping restructuring in face of Chinese competition in its biggest market
Volkswagen is entering one of the most critical periods in its recent history, as its supervisory board prepares to meet on July 9 to discuss a restructuring plan that could include...
Wednesday 8 July 2026
Inspur forecasts sharp first-half profit growth
Inspur Industry said its first-half profit is likely to rise sharply in 2026, reflecting stronger demand and improved execution as investors monitor developments across China's technology...
Wednesday 8 July 2026
Dongfeng Nissan seeks turnaround amid weak Chinese auto market
China's car market is increasingly divided between weak domestic demand and strong overseas growth, with electric vehicles (EVs) pushing further into the Middle East, Europe, and Africa...
Wednesday 8 July 2026
Meta enters AI visual race as ByteDance's Seedance reportedly reaches 90% gross margins

Meta has taken its first concrete step into generative visual media, entering a market that is filling rapidly with rivals —...

Wednesday 8 July 2026
China cost cuts put US$1T robotaxi market within reach by 2040

China's falling robotaxi supply chain costs could help push the global autonomous taxi market to US$1 trillion by 2040, with Waymo...

Wednesday 8 July 2026
Beijing's rumored AI model debate signals new era of technology controls
Beijing appears to be edging toward restricting overseas access to its most advanced artificial-intelligence (AI) models, a shift that would mirror recent moves in Washington and signal...
Wednesday 8 July 2026
China unveils memristor chip for real-time neural dynamics, pushes computing into millisecond range

A Chinese research team has developed a phase-change memristor-based neural dynamical system chip, offering a potential hardware path...

Wednesday 8 July 2026
ASE expands globally as Hanmi Semiconductor targets CoWoS packaging demand
South Korean equipment maker Hanmi Semiconductor is moving beyond high-bandwidth memory (HBM) tools into advanced chip packaging, a shift that could affect the global semiconductor...
Wednesday 8 July 2026
Chinese equipment maker wins first large-format PLP lithography order for AI packaging equipment
Circuit Fabology Microelectronics Equipment (CFMEE) has secured China's first commercial order for a large-format panel-level packaging lithography tool, marking the company's entry...
Wednesday 8 July 2026
Enterprise SSD shortage lifts DDR4 8Gb 3Q26 contract prices

Memory prices are rising faster than expected as global AI demand strains DRAM and flash supply, with knock-on effects for PCs, data...

Wednesday 8 July 2026
China eyes AI model curbs as tech rivalry moves beyond chips

For years, Washington and Beijing focused much of their tech rivalry on silicon. Now the front line may be moving to the AI models the...

Wednesday 8 July 2026
China's AI labs race to build custom AI chips while ASICs threaten Nvidia's dominance
China's leading AI model developers are moving deeper into custom chip design, a shift that could reshape the country's AI hardware market as inference demand rises, US export controls...
Wednesday 8 July 2026
Sodium batteries to cut below LFP costs in 2027, reshaping energy storage economics

China is increasingly viewing 2026 as the launch year for sodium-ion batteries, as the technology's cost advantages in the energy storage...

Wednesday 8 July 2026
Sharp taps Foxconn for US$1.9 billion new-business push

Sharp is aiming for annual sales of JPY200 billion to JPY300 billion, roughly US$1.2 billion to US$1.9 billion, from a new group of...

Wednesday 8 July 2026
Meituan open-sources LongCat-2.0 as China's domestic AI stack gains momentum

Meituan has open-sourced LongCat-2.0, a trillion-parameter AI model trained and deployed entirely on Chinese computing infrastructure,...