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Wednesday 4 February 2026
China smartphone market and industry, 4Q 2025

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Wednesday 4 February 2026
Pentagon selects 25 vendors for attack drone program

The US Department of War has invited 25 companies to compete in the first phase of a major initiative to deploy low-cost, weaponized one-way attack...

Wednesday 4 February 2026
Samsung, SK Hynix move into HBM4 as yields and policy risks loom
Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix have both secured production-ready technology for 16-layer stacks of sixth-generation high-bandwidth memory, known as HBM4, positioning the two South...
Wednesday 4 February 2026
AI drives ODM/EMS growth despite weak consumer electronics in 2025
Global data center investment in 2025 has begun to shift decisively, driven by the rapid expansion of generative artificial intelligence and the growing computational demands of large-scale...
Wednesday 4 February 2026
Jensen Huang clarifies collaboration with OpenAI on track, confirms participation in new funding round
Recent reports suggested a stall in investment between Nvidia and OpenAI, but Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has confirmed that their collaboration remains on track. Huang stated in a CNBC...
Wednesday 4 February 2026
VIS sees 1Q26 ASP dip amid product shifts, expects stable full-year pricing
Vanguard International Semiconductor (VIS) held its earnings call on January 3, 2026, projecting wafer shipments to rise 1-3% quarter-over-quarter in the first quarter of 2026 as customer...
Wednesday 4 February 2026
China's memory makers abandon low-price strategy: DRAM, NAND near Korean levels
Recent market speculation has claimed that China's memory producer CXMT is triggering a price war by offloading DDR4 at deep discounts. Supply chain sources, however, said CXMT has...
Wednesday 4 February 2026
Nanya Technology sees January revenue jump more than sixfold amid DRAM supply crunch
Benefiting from rising memory prices and supply shortages, DRAM giant Nanya Technology reported revenue of NT$15.31 billion (US$484.8 million) for January 2026, up 27.39% sequentially...
Wednesday 4 February 2026
NXP abandons low-margin bets to chase the software-defined car
In an earnings call held on February 3, NXP Semiconductors NV reported fourth-quarter revenue of US$3.34 billion, representing a 7% increase year-on-year and a 5% sequential rise....
Wednesday 4 February 2026
AMD delivered the numbers—just not the surprise the AI market wanted
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) announced financial results for the fourth quarter and full year of 2025, reporting its highest annual revenue to date. While the company met or exceeded...
Wednesday 4 February 2026
Alibaba's Quark glasses escalate China's push against Meta and Samsung
Alibaba Group's launch of its Quark artificial intelligence glasses has intensified competition in the global market for AI-powered wearables, as Chinese technology companies step...
Wednesday 4 February 2026
Samsung SDI posts heavy loss in 2025, pins recovery hopes on energy storage
Samsung SDI, one of South Korea's three major battery makers, posted a steep operating loss in 2025 as the global market for electric vehicle batteries slumped. The company reported...
Wednesday 4 February 2026
China leads the humanoid robot supply chain, with 2026 sales forecast to jump
Morgan Stanley is bullish on China's humanoid robot market, forecasting sales to surge 133% year-over-year to 28,000 units in 2026. As supply-chain costs decline and mass production...
Wednesday 4 February 2026
Winbond's 2027 DRAM capacity pre-sold as memory revenue nears NT$100B in 2025
The structural shortage in the memory market is driving a surge in supply chain operations, with reports indicating that Winbond recently finalized its contract pricing for the first...
Wednesday 4 February 2026
Memory and upstream material price hikes squeeze profits, Chinese panel makers shift to ultra-large sizes
Rising raw material costs and exchange rate fluctuations have driven upstream panel material suppliers in China to raise prices on glass substrates, polarizers, target materials, and...