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Coverage of China’s smartphone industry, including handset makers, supply chains, operating systems, and competitive dynamics. This section examines product strategy, pricing competition, and how Chinese brands position themselves in global markets.

ChinaBiz Briefing | China's AI Office War, Huawei Foldables, Honor Robot Phone, DJI E-Bike Spinoffs

China's technology sector is undergoing simultaneous structural transitions across AI, hardware, and consumer markets — and the week of August 4, 2026 crystallizes each of them. Three tech giants are dismantling their AI organizational charts in real time. The startup cohort that once defined China's AI ambition

Honor Bets on 'Robot Phone' to Reclaim Premium Ground — But Pre-Orders Don't Pay Bills

Honor is staking its premium-market revival — and its IPO narrative — on a mechanically augmented smartphone that integrates a four-degree-of-freedom titanium gimbal and an intent-driven operating system, betting that hardware novelty can accomplish what years of software-layer AI features could not. The device, formally dubbed

Huawei Tightens Grip on China's Foldable Market as Rivals Retreat, Apple Looms

Huawei captured 71.8% of China's foldable smartphone market in 2025 by betting on premium pricing that competitors refused to match — a dominance that is now reshaping the entire segment's economics ahead of Apple's widely anticipated foldable debut. The competitive landscape has inverted sharply.

ChinaBiz Briefing | Apollo Go Hits London, CATL Margin Squeeze, Xiaomi's Memory Edge

China's technology and industrial sectors delivered a cluster of strategically significant signals on Tuesday, spanning autonomous driving, battery economics, consumer robotics, and mobile memory. Taken together, the day's developments underscore a single through-line: Chinese companies are no longer competing on home turf alone — they are

Xiaomi Set to Be First Customer for SK Hynix's LPDDR6 Mass Production

Xiaomi is poised to become the first smartphone manufacturer to receive SK Hynix's next-generation LPDDR6 mobile memory chips, as the South Korean chipmaker prepares to begin mass production in the second half of 2026, according to a report by Korean outlet Herald Business. SK Hynix completed development

ChinaBiz Briefing | Tencent Lead WAIC, Huawei Leads Smartphones, Zhipu Builds Silicon Stack

China's technology sector is undergoing a simultaneous stress test on two fronts: AI infrastructure is straining under demand that has outpaced supply by a factor of three, while a memory super-cycle is redrawing the smartphone competitive map in ways that may persist through the decade. Today'

Xiaomi Raises 2026 Target to 110M as Memory Crisis Reshapes Smartphones

Xiaomi has quietly executed one of the boldest strategic pivots in the global smartphone industry this year: raising its full-year 2026 shipment target by 16% to 110 million units — even as the company posted two consecutive quarters of double-digit year-on-year sales declines and memory chip costs

Huawei Seizes China's Top Smartphone Spot as Memory Costs Reshape Market Hierarchy

China's smartphone market contracted for a fifth consecutive quarter in Q2 2026, but the pain was distributed with striking inequality: Huawei emerged with its highest market share since Q4 2020 while mid-tier Android vendors absorbed double-digit shipment declines, a divergence that is fundamentally redrawing the country&

ChinaBiz Briefing | DeepSeek IPO Push, Huawei's 5G Return, China Auto Exports Surge

China's technology and industrial sectors delivered a dense cluster of structurally significant signals on July 15 — from DeepSeek's accelerating march toward public markets to Huawei's quiet dismantling of a six-year sanctions chokepoint. Across automotive, AI, and robotics, the common thread is the same:

Huawei Returns to Global 5G Arena With Pura 90s Pro, Cracking U.S.-Japan RF Supply Chain Lock

Huawei on July 14 launched its Pura 90s Pro international edition in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia — the company's first overseas 5G flagship smartphone since U.S. export controls effectively severed its access to advanced radio-frequency components in 2019, marking a supply-chain milestone that extends well beyond a

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