Jaime Xiao on Hefei — the city that turned other people’s rubbish bins into a RMB 3.3 trillion memory empire. CXMT’s STAR Market debut opened up 471.6%, past ICBC to top the A-share table. But the real story is seventeen years of buying distressed assets at scrap value: BOE in 2008, Qimonda’s abandoned DRAM patents … Read more
Jaime Xiao on why Huawei — not BYD — is Toyota’s real existential threat, and why the smart-EV clock (eighteen-month generations) beats the Corolla’s eight-year cadence. Embedded below. Embedded from Jaime Xiao’s LinkedIn feed.
Jaime Xiao on why Dario Amodei’s opposition to an open-weights ban is the quieter danger — the safety-testing regime he proposes binds everyone on paper, but never touches China. Embedded below. Embedded from Jaime Xiao’s LinkedIn feed.
Jaime Xiao’s takedown of the “Chinese EVs aren’t as cheap as they look” maths — the depreciation curves are computed in the rear-view mirror. Embedded below. Embedded from Jaime Xiao\’s LinkedIn feed.
Estun has topped China’s industrial-robot shipment rankings again, and this time crossed a threshold no domestic brand had reached: more than 10,000 robots delivered in a single quarter. According to MIR DATABANK, in the first half of 2026 Estun again led all brands in China’s industrial-robot shipments. In the second quarter it became the first … Read more
The Economist sent a reporter to Shantou to cover a hit film. What came back was an autopsy. They are wrong about the patient. The piece (”Bottom of the class”, July 23) declares Shantou the special economic zone that failed, the odd one out among four. GDP per person of 54,000 yuan. Growth of 0.1% … Read more
Industrial embodied intelligence just cleared a practical hurdle. Topstar, a Dongguan-based smart-manufacturing equipment maker, has built a complete industrial data-iteration loop with Wuwen Zhike, a physical-AI data-platform company — letting embodied robots iterate quickly, reuse standardized components and deploy at batch scale. Wuwen Zhike was among the first in the sector to ship a physical-AI … Read more
Hikvision’s 2026 interim report, released this week, offered a clean read on where China’s robotics segment is heading. The surveillance giant posted group revenue of 46.82 billion yuan, up 11.97 percent year on year, with net profit attributable to shareholders of 7.90 billion yuan, up 39.57 percent, and gross margin climbing to 49.97 percent. The … Read more
Another robotics company has knocked on the door of the Hong Kong stock exchange. Standard Robots, a Shenzhen-based maker of industrial autonomous mobile robots, has submitted a prospectus for a main-board listing. If it gets through, it would become Hong Kong’s first “industrial embodied-AI” listing. By the numbers, the company is no minnow. According to … Read more
ChangXin Memory Technologies, Inc. (CXMT) listed on Shanghai’s STAR Market this morning. Open: RMB 49.50 against an offer price of 8.66. Up 471.6%. Market value: RMB 3.3 trillion, straight past ICBC to the top of the A-share table. The biggest winner is the city of Hefei. Its state funds hold more than a third of … Read more