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China’s first automotive-chip certification standards

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China has published the world’s first national-level capability-evaluation system covering the full automotive-chip chain. The State Administration for Market Regulation, through the certification and accreditation body CNCA, approved and released five certification and accreditation industry standards that build a structured framework for assessing institutions across the automotive semiconductor sector. China releases the first certification standards … Read more

Why Chinese EVs shrug off floodwater

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Storm season is quietly resetting the argument about electric cars and water. When Typhoon White Dolphin made landfall on 9 August, Shanghai recorded close to 300 millimetres of rain and thousands of cars were submerged across several cities. Xiaomi founder Lei Jun used the moment to post a reminder: pay attention to wading ability. Xiaomi’s … Read more

RoboScience REX G1: wheeled humanoid built to work

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On 17 August, RoboScience released REX G1, a wheeled humanoid general-purpose manipulation robot and its first commercial product, pitched as a next-generation embodied-intelligence productivity partner. Built on the company’s self-developed VLOA general embodied model, Visics, the robot targets logistics, factories, retail and home settings, and is designed to close the full loop from task understanding … Read more

SiEngine’s ‘Tiangong 100’ 7nm AI chip enters mass production

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On 12 August, SiEngine announced that its self-developed 7-nanometre automotive-grade AI accelerator, the Tiangong 100 (NNA100), has entered full mass production and begun batch supply to OEMs and Tier-1 partners. The chip is a standalone, plug-in accelerator for on-device agent AI, built to give local large models a complete domestic compute base and fix the … Read more

NIO battery swap turns from drag to moat

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When Gasgoo reported NIO’s latest charging and swap progress, a reader summed up the scepticism: “That is no moat, it could be a trap.” For long-time watchers that reads as fair. NIO has poured more than 20 billion yuan into charging and swap infrastructure, a classic heavy-asset drag. It posted its first quarterly profit in … Read more