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Date: December 31, 2025Sector: Artificial Intelligence / TechnologyStatus: Private (Pre-IPO) / Leading "AI Tiger" Introduction As 2025 draws to a close, the global artificial intelligence landscape has matured from a frantic gold rush into a disciplined war of attrition. At the center of this evolution in the East is Zhipu AI (Beijing Zhipu Huazhang Technology). [...]
As of December 29, 2025, SoftBank Group Corp (OTC: SFTBY) stands at a pivotal juncture in its four-decade history. Once viewed primarily as a telecommunications giant and subsequently as a scattergun venture capital investor, SoftBank has successfully rebranded itself as the world’s preeminent "AI Investment House." This transformation has been validated by a record-breaking 2025, [...]
Date: December 26, 2025 Introduction As 2025 draws to a close, Western Digital Corp (Nasdaq: WDC) stands as a case study in corporate reinvention and market timing. Long perceived as a sluggish hardware giant burdened by debt and the volatile dynamics of the memory market, Western Digital has undergone a radical transformation. Following the official [...]
As of late 2025, Alibaba Group Holding Limited (NYSE: BABA) finds itself at a critical crossroads between its legacy as the undisputed king of Chinese e-commerce and its future as a global AI powerhouse. The year has been defined by a "back-to-basics" approach under a revamped leadership team, seeking to navigate a sluggish Chinese consumer [...]
Alibaba shares rose as investor optimism around China's AI push grows, fueled by Baidu's AI chip spinoff plans, government support for domestic semiconductors, and strong momentum in Alibaba Cloud and Qwen AI models.
As of January 1, 2026, the global semiconductor landscape has been fundamentally reshaped by what industry analysts are calling the "Great H200 Scramble." Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) has successfully navigated a complex web of geopolitical tensions to secure a massive surge in orders for its H200 Tensor Core GPUs within the
The year 2025 will be remembered in the history of technology as the moment the "intelligence moat" began to evaporate. For years, the prevailing wisdom in Silicon Valley was that frontier-level artificial intelligence required billions of dollars in compute and proprietary, closed-source architectures. However, the rapid ascent of Chinese reasoning models—most notably Alibaba Group Holding [...]
As of January 1, 2026, the technology landscape has been fundamentally reshaped by the full-scale maturation of Apple Intelligence. What began as a series of tentative beta features in late 2024 has evolved into a seamless, multi-modal operating system experience that has triggered the long-anticipated "AI Supercycle." With the recent release of the iPhone 17 [...]
As of January 1, 2026, the global landscape of artificial intelligence hardware has undergone a seismic shift. Huawei has officially announced the wide-scale deployment of its Ascend 950 series AI processors, a milestone that signals the end of the West’s absolute monopoly on high-end compute. By leveraging a sophisticated "EUV-refined" manufacturing process and a vertically [...]
As the calendar turns to January 1, 2026, the financial world has its eyes fixed on a single stage in Las Vegas. Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) enters the new year not just as a semiconductor giant, but as a $5 trillion geopolitical heavyweight, currently navigating a complex landscape of surging demand
As the world rings in 2026, the global semiconductor landscape has undergone a seismic shift that few predicted a decade ago. RISC-V, the open-source, royalty-free instruction set architecture (ISA), has officially reached a historic 25% global market penetration. What began as an academic project at UC Berkeley is now the "third pillar" of computing, standing [...]
As 2025 draws to a close, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has successfully transitioned from a perceived laggard in the generative AI race to a dominant "AI Orchestrator." The global rollout of Apple Intelligence, culminating in a landmark partnership with Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (NYSE: BABA) for the Chinese market, marks a pivotal moment in the [...]
As 2025 draws to a close, NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) is defying the traditional product lifecycle by securing a massive second wave of demand for its "legacy" Hopper architecture. While the market’s attention has been fixed on the high-performance Blackwell B200 series, reports of renewed supply chain talks for the
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As 2025 draws to a close, the global semiconductor landscape has undergone a seismic shift, driven not by a new proprietary breakthrough, but by the rapid ascent of an open-source architecture. RISC-V, the open-standard instruction set architecture (ISA), has officially transitioned from an academic curiosity to a central pillar of geopolitical strategy. In a year [...]
In a move that fundamentally redraws the map of the global semiconductor industry, Chinese state media and industry reports confirmed on December 17, 2025, that a high-security research facility in Shenzhen has successfully validated a functional prototype of a domestic Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) lithography machine. This milestone, described by analysts as a "Manhattan Project" moment [...]
As of December 29, 2025, the global semiconductor landscape has reached a definitive turning point, marked by the meteoric rise of the open-source RISC-V architecture. Long viewed as a niche academic project or a low-power alternative for simple microcontrollers, RISC-V has officially matured into the "third pillar" of the industry, challenging the long-standing duopoly held [...]
Alibaba established itself as a preeminent AI play in China this year, which helped support its rally. The 2026 outlook also looks reasonably good after the recent fall.
