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China's SAIC will sell the MG4 Urban, powered by a semisolid-state battery, in the U.K. Photo: Li Yingmin/China News Service/VCG/Getty
The Electric

China's Geely Has a Jump in Solid-State Batteries. Should the U.S. Care?

By Steve LeVine · Aug 23, 2026 2:01pm PDT
Earlier this month, China’s Geely Group said it would deploy semisolid-state batteries in electric vehicles it is piloting next year, joining a slew of Chinese car companies preparing to commercialize the long-pursued battery technology. Earlier this month, China’s Geely Group said it would deploy semisolid-state batteries in...
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Sunday Insights

Why Unitree’s 460% IPO Stock Pop Wasn’t Unusual in China

By Jing Yang and Juro Osawa · Aug 23, 2026 8:00am PDT
Humanoid robot maker Unitree’s 460% surge in its Shanghai stock market debut on Wednesday was the latest in a series of eye-watering first trading-day pops fetched by some recent tech initial public offerings in mainland China’s stock market. It followed last month’s debut of ChangXin Memory Technologies, also known as CXMT, whose stock shot up... Humanoid robot maker Unitree’s 460% surge in its Shanghai stock market debut on Wednesday was the...
Nvidia’s Groq 3 LPU chip. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images.

Nvidia Plots China Comeback With New AI Chip

By Qianer Liu · Aug 20, 2026 9:58am PDT
Nvidia plans to begin small-batch shipments of an AI chip specially tailored for Chinese customers by the end of the year, according to two employees, in what would represent a new route to China for the company. Several Chinese customers have already placed orders for the chip, which is a variant of Nvidia’s language processing unit. The LPU is... Nvidia plans to begin small-batch shipments of an AI chip specially tailored for Chinese...
China Renaissance CEO Fan Bao. Photo by Bloomberg.
China Tech Summit

China Tech Headed for Record Year for IPOs Despite Pandemic

By Juro Osawa and Yunan Zhang · Jul 24, 2020 4:34am PDT
The head of China Renaissance Group, one of China’s most influential investment banking and private equity firms, said he expects 2020 to be a record-breaking year for Chinese tech initial public offerings. “Right now the IPO market is sizzling hot,” said China Renaissance CEO Fan Bao, at The Information’s video summit on... The head of China Renaissance Group, one of China’s most influential investment banking and...
Jessica Lessin interviews Alibaba's Joe Tsai. Photo by Brent Pottinger.
China Subscriber Summit

Watch Interviews From Beijing and Hong Kong Summits

By The Information Staff · Oct 6, 2017 2:47pm PDT · 1 comment
If you missed our summit meetings in Hong Kong and Beijing, you can catch up with the videos here. Among those on stage were Joe Tsai of Alibaba, Shou Zi Chew of Xiaomi and Bob Xu of Zhen Fund. If you missed our summit meetings in Hong Kong and Beijing, you can catch up with the videos...
Sinovation founder Kai-Fu Lee. Photo by Bloomberg.
Silicon China

How China-U.S. Tech Ties Have Evolved

By Shai Oster · Sep 27, 2017 11:59am PDT
Tucked inside a condo around the corner from a Palo Alto supermarket is the North American office of Sinovation Ventures. One of the most active investors in Chinese startups, Sinovation is also building a portfolio of companies in the U.S. The U.S. team is led by Chris Evdemon, a Greek-born, U.K.-educated venture capitalist who cut his teeth in... Tucked inside a condo around the corner from a Palo Alto supermarket is the North American office...