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Wednesday 8 July 2026

Volkswagen faces defining test as board weighs sweeping restructuring in face of Chinese competition in its biggest market

Volkswagen is entering one of the most critical periods in its recent history, as its supervisory board prepares to meet on July 9 to discuss a restructuring plan that could include...

Wednesday 8 July 2026

Dongfeng Nissan seeks turnaround amid weak Chinese auto market

China's car market is increasingly divided between weak domestic demand and strong overseas growth, with electric vehicles (EVs) pushing further into the Middle East, Europe, and Africa...

Wednesday 8 July 2026

Meta enters AI visual race as ByteDance's Seedance reportedly reaches 90% gross margins

Meta has taken its first concrete step into generative visual media, entering a market that is filling rapidly with rivals —...

Wednesday 8 July 2026

China cost cuts put US$1T robotaxi market within reach by 2040

China's falling robotaxi supply chain costs could help push the global autonomous taxi market to US$1 trillion by 2040, with Waymo...

Wednesday 8 July 2026

Beijing's rumored AI model debate signals new era of technology controls

Beijing appears to be edging toward restricting overseas access to its most advanced artificial-intelligence (AI) models, a shift that would mirror recent moves in Washington and signal...

Wednesday 8 July 2026

China unveils memristor chip for real-time neural dynamics, pushes computing into millisecond range

A Chinese research team has developed a phase-change memristor-based neural dynamical system chip, offering a potential hardware path...

Wednesday 8 July 2026

Chinese equipment maker wins first large-format PLP lithography order for AI packaging equipment

Circuit Fabology Microelectronics Equipment (CFMEE) has secured China's first commercial order for a large-format panel-level packaging lithography tool, marking the company's entry...

Wednesday 8 July 2026

China eyes AI model curbs as tech rivalry moves beyond chips

For years, Washington and Beijing focused much of their tech rivalry on silicon. Now the front line may be moving to the AI models the...

Wednesday 8 July 2026

Ennoconn hits record June revenue as AI and smart factory orders keep climbing

Ennoconn Technologies said its June 2026 revenue set a new high, with monthly, quarterly, and cumulative results all reaching record...

Wednesday 8 July 2026

China's AI labs race to build custom AI chips while ASICs threaten Nvidia's dominance

China's leading AI model developers are moving deeper into custom chip design, a shift that could reshape the country's AI hardware market as inference demand rises, US export controls...

Wednesday 8 July 2026

Sodium batteries to cut below LFP costs in 2027, reshaping energy storage economics

China is increasingly viewing 2026 as the launch year for sodium-ion batteries, as the technology's cost advantages in the energy storage...

Wednesday 8 July 2026

As Synopsys exits legacy manufacturing software, chipmakers may move toward in-house factory tools

Synopsys is preparing to discontinue a suite of manufacturing process control software used by semiconductor manufacturers, marking a strategic shift that reflects changing priorities...

Wednesday 8 July 2026

Tesla starts public road tests of Cybercab

Tesla has begun engineering tests of its production Cybercab on public roads in Austin, Texas, putting the two-seat robotaxi into real-world city traffic for the first time. The move...

Wednesday 8 July 2026

Meituan open-sources LongCat-2.0 as China's domestic AI stack gains momentum

Meituan has open-sourced LongCat-2.0, a trillion-parameter AI model trained and deployed entirely on Chinese computing infrastructure,...

Wednesday 8 July 2026

Foxsemicon June, 1H26 revenue hits record on AI orders

Foxsemicon Integrated Technology (FITI) posted record consolidated revenue of NT$2.451 billion (US$76.3 million) in June 2026, up 24.22% from May and 39.75% year-over-year. First-half...

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