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Alibaba has injected fresh capital into its semiconductor subsidiary T-Head, tripling the unit’s registered capital from 300 million yuan to 1 billion yuan, approximately $148 million, in what the South China Morning Post reports is the first capital increase in more than three years.
China has reclaimed the title of the world’s fastest supercomputer for the first time in nearly a decade.
The United States government has formally expressed concerns to Dutch semiconductor equipment manufacturer ASML that one of its highly restricted Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) lithography machines may have been acquired by China.
Tsing Micro, a semiconductor company specializing in reconfigurable processing units, has completed the IPO counseling process and entered the acceptance stage for a public listing on China’s ChiNext board, positioning the company to become the nation’s first publicly traded firm focused on reconfigurable chip technology.
ByteDance is accelerating its transition away from American silicon, engaging in talks to purchase at least 50,000 AI chips from domestic supplier Daysci.
The geopolitical friction surrounding semiconductor supply chains is intensifying, with Taiwan’s ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) reportedly preparing to implement stricter export controls on artificial intelligence chips destined for mainland China.
For years, the assumption underlying US semiconductor export controls was that cutting off China’s access to Nvidia’s most advanced chips would slow its AI development in a meaningful way.
Circuit Fabology Microelectronics Equipment Co., Ltd., known by its acronym CFMEE, has launched a Hong Kong IPO targeting approximately HKD 3.07 billion (around USD 395 million), adding a new name to the growing roster of Chinese semiconductor equipment companies seeking dual listings as the US-China tech war reshapes global capital markets.
A Brookings Institution commentary published on June 17, 2026, reframes the dominant narrative around US chip export controls in a way that should give Washington pause. The piece, written by Mark MacCarthy of the Center for Technology Innovation, argues that the United States has not simply been outmaneuvered by China’s domestic chip industry.
Samsung Electronics is receiving a growing volume of advanced chip production requests from BYD, Google, AMD, and Tesla, according to sources cited by Nikkei Asia.
In a nondescript industrial park in Tianjin’s Hexi district, a factory runs around the clock collecting data that will teach the world’s robots how to touch.
China’s Supreme People’s Court delivered a landmark ruling on Friday, June 12, that has sent shockwaves through the global compound semiconductor industry: an injunction against German chipmaker Infineon Technologies, ordering it to immediately cease all sales and imports of infringing gallium nitride products in mainland China and pay 10 million yuan ($1.47 million) in damages.…
As the global AI chip race intensifies, the material that may ultimately determine its outcome is not silicon, not gallium nitride, and not the exotic compound semiconductors that have dominated recent headlines, it is diamond.
China’s AI chip industry reached a symbolic milestone on June 16 when Shanghai Enflame Technology received clearance from the Shanghai Stock Exchange review committee for a 6 billion yuan ($888 million ) initial public offering on the STAR Market.
China has crossed a significant threshold in its push for self-reliance in quantum computing.
As the artificial intelligence boom drives an unprecedented surge in data center construction, the environmental impact of these massive facilities is becoming a critical concern. In response, China has launched an innovative pilot project that could redefine sustainable computing infrastructure: a commercial underwater data center powered entirely by renewable energy.
ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok and Douyin, is reportedly in advanced discussions to purchase artificial intelligence chips from domestic semiconductor startup Iluvatar CoreX. The move highlights the growing urgency among Chinese technology giants to secure alternative sources of computing power as United States export controls continue to restrict access to advanced hardware.
The artificial intelligence boom is exposing a critical vulnerability in the global hardware supply chain, and it has nothing to do with advanced graphics processing units (GPUs) or high-bandwidth memory.
Nvidia is aggressively moving to regain its footing in the lucrative Chinese market, pitching its newly announced Vera central processing unit (CPU) to major tech clients in the country.
Huawei is aggressively expanding its artificial intelligence infrastructure footprint beyond its domestic borders, setting its sights on Latin America as a key growth market.
