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Wednesday 2 September 2026
LG fights Chinese brands with innovation, business model shifts
LG Electronics is bolstering sales of home appliances, TVs and other consumer products through innovation and product segmentation. On the 1st, LG said it will launch new air purifiers...
Wednesday 2 September 2026
Commentary: Malaysia wants foreign automotive investment to leave more behind
The 2026 Global Automotive and Technology Expo (GATE 2026), held August 26-28 at the Malaysia International Trade and Exhibition Centre (MITEC) in Kuala Lumpur, was ostensibly about...
Wednesday 2 September 2026
Chinese MRAM chipmaker ICY Tech rethinks HBM for rack-scale AI inference
China-based ICY Tech has introduced its uHBM and uLPU AI inference architectures, extending persistent MRAM computing from validation silicon into a product roadmap spanning compute-memory...
Wednesday 2 September 2026
'Chinamaxxing' fuels China tech tourism as visitors flood Huaqiangbei
In the summer of 2026, the term "Chinamaxxing" has gone viral on overseas social media, reflecting a trend among young people, especially Gen Z in the West, who openly praise China...
Wednesday 2 September 2026
Gudeng pursues 'Taiwan Plus One' overseas strategy, says cost is not sole consideration
Gudeng Precision Industrial chairman Bill Chiu said on August 31 that the company has begun building out its global manufacturing footprint. Its Japan plant is expected to complete...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
Autonomous driving expands into Physical AI, creating new openings for Taiwan firms
The autonomous driving industry is gaining momentum as advances in AI, sensing and semiconductor technologies expand opportunities in vehicle computing, machine vision and Physical...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
Japan's chip materials makers reportedly deepen Taiwan ties as AI reshapes supply chains
Japanese semiconductor materials suppliers Ajinomoto and Daikin Industries are expanding their presence in Taiwan as the AI boom fuels demand for advanced chip materials and encourages...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
AI server demand lifts Japanese capacitor shipments by 22% in first half of 2026
Japanese electronic component shipments rose in the first half of 2026 as demand from AI servers drove strong growth in capacitors and other parts. According to Nikkei and...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
ASE CEO describes AI resource squeeze as a short-term problem
AI's early-stage growth is creating a short-term squeeze on land, talent, capital, and power in Taiwan, but there is no such thing as a world that cannot do without Taiwan, ASE Technology...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
Chinese smartphone brands raise prices as component costs climb
Several Chinese smartphone brands raised prices across entry-level and premium models on September 1, citing IT Home, Antutu, MyDrivers and Sina. The increases coincided with the start...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
BYD's overseas business overtakes China for the first time as price war erodes domestic margins
BYD sold more abroad than at home in the first half of 2026, a threshold the company crossed for the first time and the clearest signal yet that the center of gravity of its car business...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
BYD widens overseas lead over Geely, but profits still lag
BYD and Geely Auto were nearly neck and neck in vehicle sales in the first quarter of 2026, raising expectations of a close contest between China's two leading new-energy vehicle makers...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
Z.ai runs GLM inference on 100,000 Chinese AI chips, eyes overseas CSPs
Chinese large-model developer Z.ai says it can now support large-scale inference using roughly 100,000 domestically produced AI chips, while its GLM models are also moving closer to...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
Chinese court freezes US$318M in Nexperia assets, further escalating corp rift
A Chinese court has ordered the freezing of more than CNY2.14 billion (approx. US$318 million) in domestic assets belonging to Dutch semiconductor manufacturer Nexperia and its equipment...
Tuesday 1 September 2026
China's memory chipmakers post a record 1H — but not all of it came from chips
Nine listed Chinese memory and memory-adjacent chip companies have now filed their first-half 2026 results, and together they measure the depth of the current DRAM and NAND upcycle...