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Friday 11 July 2025

Korean carmakers prepare for Trump tariff-led price surge

Japanese and South Korean automakers are beginning to pass rising trade costs onto American consumers as hopes for a swift resolution to tariff negotiations with the US continue to...

Friday 11 July 2025

SiPearl raises EUR130 million to mass-produce Rhea1 chip with TSMC, advancing Europe's AI and HPC goals

French microprocessor startup SiPearl has secured EUR130 million (US$152.53 million) in a Series A funding round, with investors including Taiwan's Cathay Venture Inc. The company...

Friday 11 July 2025

China's embodied AI race just got real — Robot Era, DEEP Robotics raises CNY1 billion

China's embodied AI and humanoid robotics market is experiencing a funding surge, with leading startups Robot Era and DEEP Robotics jointly securing...

Friday 11 July 2025

Niching sees stellar 2Q25 results from AI, HPC, and advanced packaging applications

Materials supplier Niching is aiming to hit record-high revenue this year after strong performance in the first half of 2025, boosted by continued growing demand in the AI, high performance...

Friday 11 July 2025

Nissan to cut component lines and suppliers in the deepening crisis

In a bid to pull itself out of a deepening business crisis, Nissan Motor has announced sweeping structural reforms that could drastically reshape its production network and leave...

Friday 11 July 2025

Nissan shifts production of its Kicks SUV to Japan, taps Foxconn to revive underused Oppama plant

Nissan will start producing its compact SUV, the Kicks, at the Oppama plant in Kanagawa Prefecture in the second half of fiscal 2025 (October 2025 to March 2026), according to Nikkei...

Friday 11 July 2025

Subsidy hangover? China's June auto sales surge may be last hurrah

China's auto sales reached 2.08 million units in June, marking the highest monthly total since June 2022. Analysts believe the spike was likely driven by consumers accelerating purchases...

Friday 11 July 2025

NXP plots wafer shift to China as new CEO joins push for local supply chain

Kurt Sievers, the CEO of Dutch semiconductor giant NXP Semiconductors, who is set to officially step down at the end of October 2025, recently visited Shanghai and met with the mayor...

Friday 11 July 2025

China tackles auto supplier payment crisis with complaint platform

Facing growing frustration from suppliers, China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has launched a national complaint platform to address delayed payments by...

Friday 11 July 2025

Manus AI flees China for Singapore following US$75 million Benchmark round

Chinese AI Agent startup Manus has relocated its headquarters to Singapore and slashed most of its China-based workforce, just four months after its global debut. The move reflects...

Friday 11 July 2025

Korea’s Rebellions taps Taiwan alliance to challenge Nvidia in AI chip race

Seoul-based AI chip startup Rebellions is moving fast to stake its claim as South Korea's top domestic supplier of artificial intelligence (AI) semiconductors. The company is ramping...

Friday 11 July 2025

Meituan fuels embodied AI ambitions while robot IPOs hit Hong Kong despite losses

Meituan has made another move in the robotics sector, investing US$100 million in Galaxea AI, its second major robotics deal in two months...

Friday 11 July 2025

Apple loses key AI talent in Meta's multi-million dollar raid

Apple's AI development efforts have suffered a potential setback with Meta Platforms recruiting Ruoming Pang, Apple's head of foundational AI models, according to multiple outlets,...

Friday 11 July 2025

Swancor divests materials unit to back smart robotics investors

Swancor Holding Co., Ltd. has approved the sale of a 60% stake in its Shanghai STAR Market-listed unit, Swancor Advanced Materials Co., Ltd., at CNY7.78 per share, valuing the deal...

Friday 11 July 2025

Apple bleeds AI talent as tech giants wage salary war

Apple, having yet to launch its promised AI-enhanced Siri voice assistant, now confronts an escalating exodus of its artificial intelligence experts. Key personnel, including Ruoming...

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