The Shenzhen Stock Exchange will review an initial public offering from XFusion, a server maker, on November 12. The decision could give Zhengzhou its first homegrown computing champion as China's AI hardware race heats up.
Graphics cards used for AI computing surged for 11 straight trading days on overseas production-halt rumors, then reversed sharply from October 28. In Shenzhen's Huaqiangbei electronics market, the RTX 5080 fell from nearly 20,000 yuan to about 16,000, a roughly 20 percent pullback.
BMW Brilliance has begun a staffing cut across three Shenyang plants, with departing workers estimating 1,800 to 2,000 P-class production roles affected and a severance package of N+5 months. The move lands as foreign joint-venture carmakers lose ground in China's fast-shifting market.
Baidu has unveiled Apollo World, a world model built to simulate real physics for autonomous driving, and says it is already used in global testing of its robotaxi service. The company argues the measure of such models is causal fidelity, not pretty rendering.
A screenshot claiming Nomura had cut its price target on Zhongji Innocung to 330 yuan spread fast through investment chat groups on November 3. Nomura told a reporter the research note was never published, but the episode showed how thin the market's nerves are around AI hardware stocks.
The 2026 Greater Bay Area Science Forum opened in Guangzhou on November 1, gathering scientists, government representatives and tech entrepreneurs around the theme of linking the region's innovation chain to future industries.
BYD reported October sales of 490,200 new energy vehicles, with overseas volume doubling year on year. Battery-electric sales rose 37.38% while plug-in hybrids fell 17.22%, and ten-month totals slipped 2.16% to 3.62 million.
Apple has struck a deal with Alibaba to embed the Qwen model inside Apple Intelligence in China, letting Siri, writing tools and visual search call on Chinese text and image understanding. Testing opens on 4 November with the latest iOS developer beta, ahead of a full release in December.
Huawei and China Southern Power Grid have signed a major cooperation agreement that could reshape how grid equipment suppliers compete. The deal points to deeper integration of digital technology into power infrastructure and a shift in the rules for vendors.
Rising memory chip prices are making used smartphones unusually valuable in China, with near-mint handsets flying off shelves in Shenzhen's Huaqiangbei market and some popular models climbing back above last year's prices.
Delta Force's security team helped Guangdong police dismantle a major DMA cheat operation, arresting 16 people and seizing more than 20 million yuan in value. The case highlights how hardware-based cheats are becoming gaming's toughest anti-cheat problem.
SK Hynix has paused the planned IPO of its US subsidiary Solidigm despite rising memory chip prices, leaving investors and Chinese storage players waiting. The move highlights how volatile semiconductor valuations are reshaping the industry's access to public markets.
A Huafu Securities macro analyst argues that Chinese A-share valuations already reflect investors' cautious expectations, with broad indices and growth sectors near historic lows. He urges investors to avoid panic selling and focus on companies whose earnings justify their prices.
A Chinese worker's effort to find a 45-year-old friend a factory security job becomes a viral story about middle-aged men shut out of work. The friend rejects every opening — night shifts, low pay, training — as a friend watches the options shrink.
Continental's spun-off automotive arm Aumovio will pay BMW €350 million to settle a brake-system warranty dispute, a sum larger than its first-half operating profit. It is now betting on a new satellite-camera contract with a leading Chinese carmaker.
Tencent has introduced a method that lets large language models generate and solve their own training tasks, improving without new human data. The approach could reshape how Chinese AI labs compete with DeepSeek and others.
Swedish private equity giant EQT has agreed to buy Australian waste management company Cleanaway for about $6.5 billion, its biggest infrastructure bet Down Under. The all-cash offer values the recycler at roughly A$9.3 billion.
Ulanqab, a northern Chinese city known for grasslands and potatoes, is now a major green data center hub hosting Huawei, Apple, Alibaba and ByteDance. Its cool climate and renewable power have drawn over 100 signed projects and 190,000 petaflops of computing capacity.
Chinese automotive-electronics maker RoadVoyage has changed hands, with a new investor taking control after four years under construction-equipment giant Zoomlion. The deal raises questions about where the in-car tech supplier goes next.
Apple has opened pre-orders for the iPhone Duo, its first foldable phone, priced from 15,999 yuan. The company's own repair estimates show an inner-screen fix costs nearly half the phone's price.
Chinese tech firms are pitching AI workplace tools that replace headcount, not just software seats. The pitch is shifting from productivity to payroll, changing how companies decide who to hire.
Humanoid robot shipments in China jumped roughly fourfold, but cheap models drive most units while expensive machines generate most revenue. The split reveals where the money in China's robotics boom actually sits.
Seven years after retiring, the founder of display giant BOE has taken his chip design company, ESWIN Computing, public in Hong Kong. It is the third time the 69-year-old has tried to fill a gap in China's semiconductor industry.
Stacking chips vertically promises faster, denser processors, but Chinese industry analysis argues the real bottleneck is not bonding precision — it is how much each working chip costs to produce. Yield and economics, not physics, decide whether 3D integration scales.
Zhou Hongyi, a well-known Chinese tech entrepreneur, broke his left knee falling from a bouldering wall about three metres up. The accident has focused attention on the fast-growing sport and the risks that come with indoor climbing gyms.
Canyon Semiconductor will begin trading on Shenzhen's ChiNext board on October 13, pricing shares at 12.01 yuan each in a listing that underscores China's push for domestic chip capacity.
A televised exposé of a paid attraction inside an Inner Mongolia ecological protection zone has reignited debate over whether natural landscapes should be fenced, ticketed and packaged as products.
A wave of Chinese writers and app makers is pushing 'duan she li' — the practice of cutting clutter, discarding excess and leaving behind mental baggage. It is less about empty rooms than about reclaiming control.
The Demacia Cup international group stage delivered a lopsided sweep as LGD crushed JDG, while AG steadied its season in the KPL. Both storylines point to one prize: a trip to Beijing.
At a US robot combat event, a modified Chinese-made EngineAI T800 biped fought a human opponent and sent him flying with a single kick. The clip renews the debate over what humanoid robots should do next.
A new State Council notice targets the chronic late payments and interlocking debts that squeeze China's smaller suppliers. The policy push arrives as economists debate whether investment or consumption should drive the next phase of growth.
A new podcast episode traces how Guangzhou's 'Wanwu Poyuan' game museum was built and why it closed, and asks how its spirit passes between generations of Chinese players.
Chinese reviewers at Geekerwan say Huawei's new Kirin 9050 Pro chip, exclusive to the Mate 90 Pro Max, outperforms Qualcomm's fifth-generation Snapdragon 8 Elite in several heavy gaming scenes, signaling steady progress for Huawei's in-house silicon.
Online lending apps promise instant cash, and young Chinese borrowers are drowning in dozens of repayments. A wave of confessional posts is pushing regulators and families to confront a quiet crisis.
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is reportedly reworking its models to run on Huawei's Ascend chips instead of Nvidia hardware. It is less a technical patch than a full relocation of its computing base.
Huawei and Seres signed a new five-year deal in Shenzhen to upgrade their Aito electric vehicle brand, which now has more than 1.2 million users. The partnership deepens their bet on premium smart cars in China's crowded EV market.
A senior Huawei executive argues that carmakers may spend more developing their own smart driving systems than buying them, urging stronger division of labor between automakers and suppliers.
A viral essay explains why Shenzhen students can buy their school uniform off a supermarket shelf for a few dozen yuan, and why that plain polyester shell became a canvas for teenage self-expression.
Starting October 1, 2026, Chinese families taking out new commercial mortgages for their first home will get an annual 1% interest subsidy paid by the central government. The policy turns two years of local pilots into a nationwide program.
Optical module maker Zhongji Innolight has completed a 1.747 billion yuan purchase of a 10.47% stake in Shenzhen-listed Zhongshi Technology. The deal closed on September 29, 2026, making Innolight a major shareholder.
