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Friday 27 June 2025
Tesla breaks into China's energy storage market while Chinese firms hit US barriers
Tesla has secured its first gigawatt-hour-scale energy storage project in China — a rare breakthrough for a US firm in the country's increasingly closed clean tech market. Valued...
Thursday 26 June 2025
China reportedly demands rare earth firms hand over tech staff data amid delays in lifting export curbs
Despite a pledge made at the Geneva talks to lift export restrictions on rare earth materials, China has yet to follow through. According to The Wall Street Journal, Chinese authorities...
Thursday 26 June 2025
Japan's METI to introduce cybersecurity guidelines for chipmakers, including TSMC and Rapidus
Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) is drafting new cybersecurity guidelines for semiconductor manufacturers and is considering making compliance a condition for...
Thursday 26 June 2025
Naura seizes control of Kingsemi in bid to crack China's lithography bottleneck
China's semiconductor equipment industry is witnessing renewed consolidation as leading toolmaker Naura Technology assumes control of Kingsemi, a specialist in lithography systems...
Thursday 26 June 2025
SK Hynix expands DRAM dominance with new chip packaging plant in South Korea
SK Hynix said it plans to construct a new semiconductor backend facility in Cheongju, North Chungcheong Province, marking its seventh such plant in South Korea, as the company moves...
Thursday 26 June 2025
Chinese chip giants multiplying subsidiaries in race for supply chain control

Amid rising US-China tech tensions and growing supply chain risks, China's top semiconductor companies are rapidly forming new subsidiaries...

Thursday 26 June 2025
AMEC ships first Primo Menova tool as R&D investment surges 94%
Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment Inc., China (AMEC) has delivered the world's first Primo Menova 12-inch metal etching system to a top domestic IC design and manufacturing service...
Wednesday 25 June 2025
Xiaomi XRing O2 surfaces: new SoC challenger to Qualcomm, Apple?
Xiaomi has filed multiple new trademarks — "XRing O2," "XRing T1," and "XRing O" — signaling continued momentum in its in-house semiconductor development. The move follows...
Wednesday 25 June 2025
China's 618 shopping festival fizzles as subsidy impact wanes, IC demand stalls
China's month-long 618 shopping festival ended last week, with supply chain sources viewing it as the final boost from fading government subsidies. While past shopping events often...
Wednesday 25 June 2025
Xinhao to offload solar arm to Luxshare in related-party deal amid pivot to core ops

Shenzhen Xinhao Photoelectricity Technology said on June 22 that it had signed a Letter of Intent with Luxshare Precision Industry Co...

Wednesday 25 June 2025
Xiaomi unveils YU7 electric SUV to challenge Tesla Model Y in China
Xiaomi will debut its first all-electric SUV, the YU7, on June 26, announced Company founder Lei Jun via his personal Weibo, adding that the vehicle is designed to challenge the Tesla...
Wednesday 25 June 2025
China on cusp of seeing over 100 DeepSeeks, ex-top official says
China's advantages in developing artificial intelligence (AI) are about to unleash a wave of innovation that will generate more than 100 DeepSeek-like breakthroughs in the coming...
Wednesday 25 June 2025
China’s 618 shopping festival fails to ignite memory market as prices outpace demand

China's annual 618 mid-year shopping festival — once a bellwether of consumer strength — wrapped up with mixed results this...

Wednesday 25 June 2025
Apple's OLED iPad pipeline fuels Samsung, LG production ramp; BOE left in the dust
Apple is set to release new iPad Pro models in the latter half of 2025, continuing its transition to OLED displays across its tablet portfolio. As reported by ZDNet Korea,...
Wednesday 25 June 2025
The push for humanoid robots' final mile unlocks the era of dexterous hands
Tech giants like Nvidia are optimistic that the next AI revolution will center around humanoid robots. However, the question remains: when will these robots truly become widespread?...