ChinaBiz Insider (Page 38)

Sign in Subscribe

More issues

CATL's 587Ah Cell and the New Economics of Energy Storage

How the world's largest battery maker is reshaping the cost curve — and why it matters beyond the headlines What Is Happening, and Why Does It Matter? A single product announcement from a Chinese battery manufacturer rarely rewrites industry economics. But when that manufacturer is CATL — which holds roughly

Tencent Consolidates AI Command, Bets Full Stack on Agentic Era

Tencent has dismantled its dual-track AI model structure and handed unified control of its Hunyuan foundation models to Chief AI Scientist Yao Shunyu, signaling the company's most aggressive push yet to dominate China's fast-maturing enterprise agent market. The organizational overhaul, announced July 23, merges

China’s Semiconductor Breakout: From Policy Support to Commercial Scale

China's STAR Market semiconductor cohort is delivering its most compelling earnings cycle in years, with select companies posting revenue growth exceeding 300% in the first half of 2026 — a confluence of AI-driven compute demand, a memory industry upcycle, and Beijing's deepening domestic substitution mandate that

Unitree’s As2-W Pushes Industrial Robotics Beyond Humanoids

0:00 /1:03 1× Unitree Robotics has unveiled the As2-W, a hybrid wheel-legged quadruped capable of carrying 180 kilograms—seven times its own body weight—marking a decisive shift in China's embodied-AI sector from laboratory spectacle to deployable industrial asset. The July 24 launch

AgiBot Targets HK$5B Hong Kong IPO With Ecosystem Strategy

AgiBot, China's fastest-growing general-purpose AI robotics company, has formally initiated a Hong Kong IPO process targeting a valuation of HK$40 billion to HK$50 billion (approximately US$5.1 billion to US$6.4 billion), a price tag that implies a revenue multiple of up

CXMT's Mega IPO: What It Means for China's DRAM Industry

What Is Changxin Memory, and Why Does Its IPO Matter? On July 27, 2026, Changxin Memory Technologies (stock code: 688825) began trading on the Shanghai Stock Exchange's STAR Market — China's technology-focused equity board. With an issuance valuation of approximately RMB 579.2 billion (roughly USD

ChinaBiz Briefing | Geely-Ford Valencia Deal, CXMT IPO, CAS Space Milestone

China's technology and industrial complex delivered a dense set of signals on Thursday: a Chinese automaker rewrote the European manufacturing playbook, the country's dominant DRAM maker prepared for a landmark stock market debut, a commercial rocket company crossed a key operational threshold, and a brutally honest

Geely Bets €221 Million on Ford's Idled Spanish Plant, Rewriting China's European EV Playbook

Geely is acquiring a 34% stake in Ford's Valencia factory for €221 million (approximately RMB 1.765 billion, or US$245 million), a transaction that marks the most structurally significant pivot yet in Chinese automakers' European manufacturing strategy — and the most consequential shift in the Geely-Ford

CAS Space Crosses 110-Satellite Threshold as Kinetica-1 Rocket Shifts Into Monthly Launch Cadence

SHANGHAI, July 24, 2026 — CAS Space has crossed a symbolic threshold in China's commercial launch industry, deploying its 110th satellite aboard the Kinetica-1 rocket and signaling a structural shift from technology demonstration to industrialized, on-demand orbital delivery — with space-based artificial intelligence computing emerging as the

CXMT: China's DRAM Challenger and the Structural Forces Reshaping Global Memory

What Is CXMT, and Why Does It Matter? ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) is China's only vertically integrated DRAM manufacturer — and as of early 2026, the world's fourth-largest DRAM producer by revenue share. Its listing on Shanghai's STAR Market marks the first time a