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Wednesday 13 August 2025
Rising G2 competition impacts American cloud services in China and Hong Kong
Nextlink, a cloud service agent, reported a 6.6% increase in revenue to approximately NT$2.086 billion (approx. US$69.5 million) in the first half of 2025 compared to the same period...
Wednesday 13 August 2025
China orders Alibaba, ByteDance to stop buying Nvidia H20 chips as tech tensions escalate
China's growing mistrust of Nvidia's H20 GPU is spilling into open confrontation, with regulators ordering leading internet firms, including Alibaba and ByteDance, to suspend orders...
Wednesday 13 August 2025
Samsung, SK Hynix eye HBM boost as Nvidia gets China AI chip approval, 15% tariff threatens margins
Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix are poised to benefit from Washington's reported decision to allow Nvidia to resume exports of its lower-tier H20 artificial intelligence chips to...
Wednesday 13 August 2025
Xiaomi shakes up Africa leadership in high-stakes clash with 'king of phones' Transsion
Xiaomi has overhauled its Africa leadership team as part of an aggressive regional push. Liu Shequan has been named general manager of the Africa regional department and head of the...
Wednesday 13 August 2025
China's chip equipment spending surges in 1H25, defying global downturn
China's semiconductor industry posted CNY455 billion (approx. US$63.3 billion) in total investment during the first half of 2025, down 9.8% from a year earlier, according to a new...
Wednesday 13 August 2025
China to start mass production of domestic HBM3 chips, paving way for Huawei AI integration

China's domestic high-bandwidth memory (HBM) technology has reportedly reached a major milestone, with one of the nation's top DRAM manufacturers...

Wednesday 13 August 2025
Taiwanese IC design houses signal caution on 3Q25 outlook amid weak Chinese consumption and fading pull-in momentum
Taiwan's integrated circuit (IC) design companies have released financial reports and forecasts that signal a cautious outlook for the third quarter of 2025. Tariff-driven pull-ins...
Wednesday 13 August 2025
Huawei unveils AI software to boost inference and curb China’s reliance on foreign memory chips

Huawei has launched its Unified Cache Manager (UCM), a software framework designed to speed up inference in large AI models. The company...

Wednesday 13 August 2025
Taiwan industries seek tariff relief as Chinese rivals undercut prices despite 50% duties
Taiwan's Minister of Economic Affairs J.W. Kuo recently held forums addressing the impact of increased US tariffs on Taiwanese industries. He proposed six countermeasures to help...
Wednesday 13 August 2025
US export levy targeting Nvidia and AMD may expand to other semiconductor firms
The White House confirmed on August 12, 2025, that the Trump administration is still finalizing details around a 15% "export levy" applied to Nvidia and AMD's AI chip sales to China,...
Wednesday 13 August 2025
Micron walks away from China's mobile NAND market, opening doors for rivals
Micron Technology is retreating from the mobile NAND flash market and cutting its China footprint, a shift set to benefit Samsung Electronics and Yangtze Memory Technologies Co. (YMTC)...
Wednesday 13 August 2025
Trump’s 15% Nvidia chip levy hints at new trade game
US President Donald Trump's decision to impose a 15% revenue levy on Nvidia Corporation's downgraded AI chips, such as the H20 model, sold to China, has ignited intense reactions...
Wednesday 13 August 2025
Two Chinese robot firms join Nvidia to drive ‘physical AI’ boom
As AI shifts from the "information space" into the physical world, China's leading robotics firms Unitree Robotics and Beijing Galbot are strengthening ties with Nvidia to speed the...
Wednesday 13 August 2025
IPO wave puts China's humanoid robot industry to the test
China's humanoid robot industry is entering a rapid commercialization phase, with IPO pipelines expanding and capital inflows surging, as domestic manufacturers intensify competition...
Wednesday 13 August 2025
Tariffs up, but China still commands the EV battery high ground
US President Donald Trump is imposing steep tariffs on Chinese lithium batteries to limit Beijing's market dominance, but soaring short-term demand from the electric vehicle (EV)...