Changxin Memory Technologies' planned US$4–5bn Shanghai STAR Market IPO has raised concerns that China’s DRAM champion could flood the market with excess capacity and aggressive prices, but that risk looks overstated in the near term.
Tesla’s market capitalization is by far the biggest among global automakers, mainly because it has sold itself as a leader in AI—not just in cars, but for humanoid robots as well. To turn its AI vision into reality, it needs China. Its Shanghai gigafactory enabled Tesla to scale up electric vehicle production; to scale up robotaxis and humanoids, it will have to figure out how to operate in both the US and China even as the two countries wall off their AI ecosystems from each other.