"Hua Hong's profit jumped 147% and the reason has almost nothing to do with leading-edge chips"
Record profit comes from specialty silicon. Photonics is the 2027 bet.
"China's November midrange wave splits four ways, and the Honor 700 Pro is the only phone doing two of the jobs"
Four phones, four jobs. Honor 700 Pro is the battery-plus-zoom outlier.
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"Iluvatar's Tiangai 300 beat the H200 in a demo. Its interim report is the more important document"
A 1.05× H200 demo is a pilot signal. The filings say proceed carefully.
"Xiaomi's humanoids worked a full factory shift. The error rate is the number they left out"
A full shift is real progress. Interventions per hundred hours is the number to watch.
"An 11,000mAh Redmi Turbo 6 Max would make screen-on time the phone's whole pitch"
11,000mAh sounds huge. Watts, cycles and weight decide the buy.
"CATL just locked the only battery on a Chinese eVTOL, and the real product is the certification"
The aviation battery race is about certification, not just Wh/kg.
"ZTE is selling its phone business for ¥40 billion, and the paperwork says the price is already too low"
A ¥40 billion phone deal where the assistant is the asset, not the handset.
"5C, 800V, 10C: the charging spec on your next EV is a pile problem, not a car problem"
Your 1MW EV meets a 51kW public gun. Buy range first.
"Buy the phone now, wait for 11.11 on the fridge: China's 2026 subsidy cap decides it, not the countdown"
Phone subsidy caps at ¥500. Appliance math still works to ¥10,000.
"CXMT's ¥54.4 billion quarter is a cycle, not a coronation"
A DRAM windfall, an HBM yield problem, and no cheap RAM rescue.
"Xiaomi's shoe washer is a good idea at ¥799 and a bad one at ¥1,299"
A handy ¥799 shoe scrubber. A ¥1,299 appliance with no dryer.
"RedMagic 12 Pro+ vs iQOO 16: the ¥1,000 gaming tax, and when it is worth paying"
iQOO wins on cameras and price. RedMagic is for marathon gaming only.
"Same phone, different phone: buying the China version"
Bigger battery, more bands, less Google. Import only for the right four things.
"China's iPhone AI is a different Apple Intelligence, and the good parts cost money"
Qwen inside, next-gen Siri out, and a paid meter coming later.
"10,000mAh is now a mid-ranger spec, and the mAh number is the least useful number on the box"
The biggest cell isn’t the best buy. Check cycles and watts first.
The China robot vacuum model-name decoder
Same name, different robot. The only import worth it is plumbed.
DeepSeek ships a super-agent blueprint, not a product
A Router, a fleet of Workers, and a research prototype—not an inbox butler.
October's EV scoreboard: Leapmotor runs away, Huawei's HIMA halves
Cheap and exported beat premium and domestic in October.
Zunjie V800 brake pedal: if you own one, book the free fix now
The free pedal bracket fix is optional. Take it anyway.
OnePlus Turbo 6Vs is a Turbo 6V in orange. Don't pay 3,699 yuan for it
Same phone, new paint, 1,600 yuan more.
China’s phone market has a memory problem
Memory costs are reshuffling China’s phone hierarchy.
Unitree is building the data layer for humanoid robots
The robot race is moving from dance moves to dishwasher duty.