According to MoneyDJ, citing Nikkei, there are now six “hectocorn” companies worldwide (referring to unlisted firms valued at over USD 100 billion). As of early September, their combined valuation has reportedly reached about USD 1.4 trillion—nearly twice the size of Japan’s national budget....

Ant Group is ramping up its semiconductor strategy, completing three major rounds of investment in the past week that span critical areas of the chip industry. The fintech giant has taken stakes in ReRAM memory developer Innostar Semi, AI edge chipmaker YeZhiXin Technology, and expanded its holdings...

Despite geopolitical headwinds, NVIDIA’s H20 AI chip remains in strong demand among Chinese cloud giants. According to Reuters, Alibaba, ByteDance, and other major tech firms are still actively seeking to secure the chip, even as Beijing pressures them to scale back such purchases. Notably, Reu...

According to STAR Market Daily, major Chinese tech companies are actively investing in the semiconductor sector, with one of the latest cases involving a local memory chipmaker. Sources indicate that Ant Group’s subsidiary, Shanghai Yunya Enterprise Management Consulting, has acquired a 1.87% stak...

According to Reuters, sources say the Cyberspace Administration of China has summoned domestic companies—including Tencent, ByteDance, Baidu, and several smaller tech firms—over their purchases of Nvidia’s H20 chips, asking them to justify the purchases and expressing concerns about potential ...