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The Maextro S800, a high-end sedan produced by Huawei and JAC Motors, has become China’s bestselling luxury car, according to <a href="/company/huawei">Huawei</a>. The company said the model accounted for one-third of high-end vehicle sales in China in April.

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Calterah has filed for a Shanghai Star Market IPO that could value the automotive radar chip maker at about RMB 14 billion. The company held a 31.1% share of China’s automotive-grade millimeter-wave radar chip market in 2025, but Q1 2026 revenue growth slowed to 8.1% as it remained loss-making and heavily exposed to BYD’s supply chain.

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Xiaomi launched its Xring O3 chip on August 24, describing it as the first flagship mobile SoC to support LPDDR6 memory. Supply chain sources identified ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) as a core LPDDR6 partner, marking a reported first application of domestically developed LPDDR6 in a flagship processor.

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