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Memory Costs Crack Open Apple's Supply Chain Profits

Two Chinese component makers show wildly different fortunes as DRAM and NAND prices climb ahead of the next iPhone cycle, exposing the uneven leverage suppliers hold in Cupertino's ecosystem.

By Wei Zhang·Aug 26, 2026·4 min read
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A Fintech Firm Tries to Sell LPs on Combined Venture-Advisory Play

FGV Capital merges investing and consulting under one roof, arguing the overlap will help close deals and drive returns in a crowded fundrai…

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 5m
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Tesla Picks ByteDance's Doubao for In-Car AI, Signaling China Strategy Shift

The electric-vehicle maker's decision to embed a Chinese LLM in its infotainment system reflects both regulatory pragmatism and a bet on loc…

Wei Zhang ·   · 7m
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Jack Ma Places HK$600 Million Bet on Alibaba's AI Future

The e-commerce founder's consecutive-day share purchases mark a public vote of confidence in the company's artificial intelligence strategy …

Wei Zhang ·   · 6m
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Bengaluru Startup Airbound Raises $37M to Build Drones That Weigh Less Than Their Cargo

The three-year-old company is designing tail-sitter aircraft for medical deliveries today and a 10,000-flight-a-day network across Andhra Pr…

Priya Nair ·   · 5m
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Oura's IPO Plan Tests Whether Sleep Tech Can Command a $16 Billion Premium

The smart ring maker is preparing to go public next month, but a fresh lawsuit and intensifying competition from Whoop and Samsung complicat…

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 6m
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China's Reusable Rocket Push Gets Its First Landing - and a Veteran Engineer Who Bet on It

Dai Zheng left the state space programme a decade ago to join a private startup. On August 19, the Zhuque-3 booster touched down upright, vi…

Wei Zhang ·   · 6m
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General Intuition Nears $6B Valuation as Foundation Model Maker Targets Robotics

The spatial intelligence startup is attracting fresh capital from Valor Ventures, Point72 Ventures, and Seven Seven Six as it trains AI agen…

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 5m
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Hugging Face Weighs Offers Near $13 Billion as AI Infrastructure Race Intensifies

The open-source AI platform, built on community trust and recently targeted by a sandbox breach, faces acquisition interest that tests its l…

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 5m
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Xpeng's Robotics Unit Lands $900M as China's EV Giants Pivot to Humanoids

Dogotix's record funding round underscores a strategic shift among Chinese automakers racing to commercialize embodied AI beyond vehicle ass…

Wei Zhang ·   · 5m
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China's Robot Makers Shift From Showroom Flash to Factory Floor

With Unitree's IPO and a record exhibitor turnout in Beijing, the question now is whether the robotics boom can survive the grind of product…

Wei Zhang ·   · 5m
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YMTC's Parent Lines Up Shanghai Listing That Could Dwarf China's Chip IPO Record

CCSH Corporation is preparing to raise up to $3.5 billion in what would become the largest semiconductor offering on the Star Market, signal…

Wei Zhang ·   · 5m
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Alibaba Insiders Purchase $15 Million in Stock After Record AI Fundraise

Top executives signal confidence with personal share purchases as China's e-commerce giant completes its first Hong Kong placement in five y…

Wei Zhang ·   · 5m
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China's Robot Makers Pivot to Wheels Over Walking

At Beijing's World Robot Conference, the industry's center of gravity is shifting from crowd-pleasing humanoids to practical, deployable mac…

Wei Zhang ·   · 4m
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Flipkart Minutes Climbs to One Million Daily Orders in India's Instant Delivery Race

Walmart's quick-commerce bet is catching Swiggy's Instamart after two years, as dark-store expansion and a vast e-commerce base drive repeat…

Priya Nair ·   · 6m
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Harvard Business School Puts AI Clones in the Classroom

The Ivy League institution's new $699 entrepreneurship program uses HeyGen avatars to coach students through pitch practice - and learners s…

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 7m
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Defense Contracts Keep American Battery Startups Afloat After Subsidy Cuts

With consumer EV incentives eliminated, startups pivot to military applications while $500 million in federal grants reshape the domestic ba…

Daniel R. Whitfield ·   · 5m
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Lady Gaga's Partner Is Building a Biotech Lab That Keeps Human Skin Alive

Michael Polansky has spent years quietly developing an AI platform that sustains living tissue outside the body to hunt for new dermatologic…

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 5m
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China's Chip and AI Companies Turn to Equity to Hold Talent

Semiconductor and AI firms deploy aggressive stock plans as domestic competition for engineers intensifies and geopolitical pressures mount.…

Wei Zhang ·   · 5m
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Apple Prunes Its Headset and Voice Assistant Teams as Strategy Pivots

Cupertino cuts roughly 200 roles across Vision Pro and Siri divisions, signaling a retreat from immersive gaming and a migration toward ligh…

Marcus Halloran ·   · 5m
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Sapporo Startup Letara Raises $16M to Scale Hybrid Rocket Technology

With fresh capital and government support, the Japanese space company is moving from small satellite thrusters to large-scale propulsion sys…

Kenji Watanabe ·   · 4m
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Apple Trims Over 200 Staff as It Reorients Around Intelligence Push

The cuts hit Vision Pro, Siri, and AI integration teams as the iPhone maker shifts resources toward its broader machine learning strategy an…

Daniel R. Whitfield ·   · 4m
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Silicon Supply Chains Head Southeast as Tokuyama Splits Production Between Vietnam and Malaysia

The Japanese materials firm is diversifying polysilicon manufacturing away from domestic concentration, a move that signals broader industry…

Kenji Watanabe ·   · 6m
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Starcloud Locks $250 Million Extension to Secure Starship Slots

The orbital compute startup is racing to book rocket capacity as SpaceX phases out Falcon 9 and competitors struggle to fly regularly…

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 6m
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Apple Cuts Over 200 Jobs in Vision Pro and Siri Teams

The reductions hit gaming and content divisions hardest, signaling a recalibration of the company's spatial computing ambitions just eightee…

Daniel R. Whitfield ·   · 4m