… That's in part due to Chinese chip designers lacking design history to iterate on, but it's also in part because China's chipmakers have been locked out of the most advanced semiconductor manufacturing equipment thanks to US-led restrictions on leading-edge chip fabrication tech. …
China's CXMT Eyes Second Beijing Fab To Fight Memory Shortage by Aaron Leong — Monday, August 03, 2026, 11:04 AM EDT Chinese memory titan ChangXin Memory Technologies CXMT is in early talks to secure funding for a second major DRAM fabrication facility in Beijing in a bid to expand memory chip outp… …
… "Apple choosing to partner with a Chinese military company would be a grave mistake," John Moolenaar, the Republican chair of the House China committee, told FT . The other interesting thing to monitor is what effect, if any, a memory chip supply deal with CXMT would have on Apple's product pricing. …
… The chip company says that Project Firefly isn't a direct reaction to any competitors, but rather a holistic "Mainstream Reimagined" initiative. …
Qualcomm Reportedly Lands Major ByteDance Chip Deal For AI Data Centers by Zak Killian — Wednesday, May 27, 2026, 02:20 PM EDT Qualcomm Inc. has reportedly secured a multi-million unit agreement with TikTok parent ByteDance to supply custom artificial intelligence chips for its data centers. …
… With the AI industry currently swallowing up the world's standard memory supply and driving prices through the roof, it appears one of the West's biggest PC hardware brands is turning to China for relief. …
… Small independent shops take scrapped laptops, defective products, and recovered chips and solder them down to custom PCBs with similarly recovered GDDR7 chips and then hack NVIDIA's driver installer so that it will actually install. …
… It's easy to understand why chipmakers have retreated to B2B sales; selling pro gear to businesses offers higher margins and right now, because of the AI boom, there's virtually unlimited demand for nearly all kinds of chips. …
… The internal layout, chip placement, and screw patterns of the T1 matched the HTC hardware trace for trace. …