CONNECT WITH US
Global supply chain: China market
China market news coverage
IN THE NEWS
Monday 7 September 2026
Yaho rides TSMC, Micron expansion wave to tap facility integration, equipment installation market
Artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC) are driving the global semiconductor industry into a new expansion cycle, with fabs extending from Taiwan to the US,...
Monday 7 September 2026
Model fatigue, China's price pressure, and a profit horizon still years away
The AI industry's release calendar has compressed to the point where a single week can carry five frontier or near-frontier launches, but the acceleration is not a sign of confidence...
Monday 7 September 2026
Largan expects higher September output after sixth land acquisition
As the countdown to Apple's latest iPhone launch enters its final stretch, market attention is zeroing in on Taiwanese optical component suppliers. Leading lens maker Largan Precision...
Monday 7 September 2026
Phison snaps up low-cost China NAND inventory, AI revenue share set to top 40%
Phison CEO K.S. Pua expects NAND Flash supply to remain tight into 2027 despite capacity expansion across major memory makers, arguing that forecasts of a rapid return to oversupply...
Monday 7 September 2026
DeepSeek plans to buy 160,000 Huawei chips as China aims to wean itself off Nvidia
DeepSeek is reportedly planning to purchase 160,000 Huawei chips for its large 1 GW data center currently under construction in the Chinese province of Inner Mongolia. This would make...
Monday 7 September 2026
China smart driving chips hit bottlenecks in mass production, cost, in-house auto R&D
China's intelligent driving market is advancing rapidly, but the true trial has only just begun for domestic smart driving chipmakers.
Monday 7 September 2026
China's power battery sector maintains strong growth momentum as global market presence expands
China's power battery industry has reported robust growth through the first seven months of 2026, driven by rising demand across both electric vehicles and stationary energy storage...
Monday 7 September 2026
Xiaomi warns of more India price hikes as AI squeezes the phone from both sides
The same AI boom that is filling handsets with new features is draining the memory supply that makes cheap phones possible—and in India, the world's second-largest smartphone...
Monday 7 September 2026
Naura 3D DRAM etching breakthrough could give CXMT a new path beyond EUV
China's Naura Technology has demonstrated a selective etching process for 64-layer 3D DRAM structures, potentially giving domestic memory makers another route to raise transistor density...
Monday 7 September 2026
India says it cannot build electronics without China and has started easing the rules to prove it
India is selling its semiconductor build-out abroad as a hedge against an over-concentrated supply chain. The officials running it are unusually candid that the hedge cannot be built...
Monday 7 September 2026
Huawei Kirin 2026 challenges 3D chip heat limits with Tau Scaling Law
Huawei is using measured data from its upcoming Kirin 2026 processor to challenge a key concern around vertically stacked logic: that higher transistor density inevitably brings more...
Monday 7 September 2026
Weekly news roundup: AI memory race heats up, Taiwan manufacturing rebounds, Nexperia rift deepens
AI infrastructure and semiconductor supply chains led reader interest this week, from Taiwan's manufacturing recovery and Nexperia's legal battle to Sandisk's HBF, Micron's HBM expansion,...
Monday 7 September 2026
Every Chinese CPU maker grew in 1H26 but only one grew on processors
Revenue rose at every Chinese chip company examined in the first half of 2026 amid the domestic-substitution push, but the interim filings show three quite different businesses hiding...
Monday 7 September 2026
China's JCET seeks US$968M for AI-driven packaging expansion

JCET Group is preparing a CNY6.5 billion (approx. US$968 million) private share placement to expand advanced packaging and testing capacity...

Monday 7 September 2026
AI is driving force behind 'Moore's Law on steroids,' says Merck's Benjamin Hein
AI is driving a new wave of technological demand and changing how the semiconductor industry innovates, according to Benjamin Hein, member of the executive board and CEO of the Electronics...