--- date: 2026-09-04 subject: "Domestic memory hits top phone grade | Battery standards get a deadline | Horizon Robotics Driving Chip" --- **CXMT will supply nubia's NaviX Ultra** with LPDDR5X memory running at up to 10667 megabits per second, which both companies describe as the first mass-production use of a domestically made chip at that speed. **China approved three solid-state battery standards** for drafting, covering performance, safety and service life for electric vehicle cells, with public comment drafts expected by the end of 2026. **Horizon Robotics said yesterday** that cumulative production of its Journey driver assistance chips passed 15 million units, and a Xinhua blue book put it ahead of Nvidia in China's intelligent driving chip market. # Top Stories - **Memory maker CXMT reaches the fastest LPDDR5X grade in a shipping phone** — CXMT will supply the nubia NaviX Ultra with LPDDR5X memory, the low-power standard used in handsets, running at up to 10667 megabits per second. That is its second flagship design win in two weeks, after the Xiaomi 18 Fold LPDDR6 part (covered [August 25th](https://chinatechdaily.org/archive/china-daily/2026-08-25/)). Both companies call it the first mass-production use of a domestically made chip at that speed. CXMT says the grade runs about 25% faster than the mainstream version, and with it shipping the company now covers every speed from mainstream to flagship. CXMT, or ChangXin Memory Technologies, is China's largest maker of DRAM, the working memory a processor reads and writes as it runs, and its slower LPDDR5X grades entered mass production in May 2025. The NaviX Ultra is the ByteDance and ZTE phone built around ByteDance's Doubao assistant, and it goes on sale this month. [Wallstreetcn](https://wallstreetcn.com/livenews/3160327) [Sina Tech](https://finance.sina.com.cn/tech/roll/2026-09-04/doc-iniqryew1325491.shtml) [state-affiliated] [Silicon UK](https://www.silicon.co.uk/mobility/smartphones/cxmt-lpddr5x-ai-memory-627320) - **China approves three solid-state EV battery standards for drafting, with comment drafts due by year-end** — Three national standards covering performance, safety and service life for solid-state electric vehicle batteries have been approved for drafting, with public comment drafts expected by the end of 2026. The industry ministry said a day earlier that it would speed up battery standards work (covered [September 3rd](https://chinatechdaily.org/archive/china-daily/2026-09-03/)). The terminology standard already published in the same series fixes what makers may call their products, permitting semi-solid battery only for a hybrid solid-liquid cell and all-solid-state battery only for a fully solid one. Solid-state cells replace the liquid electrolyte, the medium that carries charge between a battery's two electrodes, with a solid material. That published part also sorts EV batteries by electrolyte into liquid, hybrid solid-liquid and solid-state types. [ITHome](https://www.ithome.com/0/998/376.htm) - **Driving-chip maker Horizon Robotics passes 15 million units and leads Nvidia at home** — Horizon Robotics said yesterday that cumulative production of its Journey driver assistance chips has passed 15 million units, following the Journey 6M's instillation on more than 70 model types (covered [September 2nd](https://chinatechdaily.org/archive/china-daily/2026-09-02/)). A blue book, a research report published by Xinhua's China Economic Information Service, put the company first across all tiers of the intelligent driving chip market for China's domestic brand passenger cars in the first half of 2026. Horizon held 31.94% against Nvidia's 29.38%. The lead reverses in the harder tier, urban navigation on autopilot, where Horizon ranks second on 22.82% behind Nvidia on 39.43%. Licensing and services revenue overtook chip and system sales in the first half, rising to more than half of the company's total from under half a year earlier. Volkswagen's ID.ERA 5S runs urban navigate-on-autopilot and automated parking on a single Journey 6M chip, the German maker's first sedan anywhere with the urban feature. [Leiphone](https://www.leiphone.com/category/industrynews/7eOdoPpzrxPgWnso.html) - **Beijing's robot center opens a training-data base with 180,000 hours of annual capacity** — The Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center has opened an embodied intelligence data and training base, built in under a year. Embodied intelligence pairs an AI model with a physical body, so its training data has to be collected by machines and people moving through real rooms rather than scraped from the web. The floor covers home, retail and pharmaceutical settings among others, with robot platforms and separate rigs for recording people at work. Annual capacity is 180,000 hours of what the center calls high-quality data, and more than 30,000 hours have gone to industry customers so far, it says. Base head Xia Hualin said the decisive advantage will come from the loop that feeds collected experience back into training rather than from the robot body or the algorithm. The base also publishes RoboMIND, an open data set whose downloads doubled within a month to pass 20 million. [Sina Tech](https://finance.sina.com.cn/jjxw/2026-09-03/doc-iniqpzps1095859.shtml) [state-affiliated] # Policy & Regulation - **China's industry ministry offers AI startups state compute, data and open source support** — The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), which writes China's industrial policy, issued a three-year plan to support AI startups with compute, data and open source resources. Computing resources are to be pooled and flexibly allocated through the China Computing Power Platform. to give startups low-cost compute, with dedicated zones for smaller firms. The plan names AtomGit as the national-level AI open source community and commits to backing its growth as a source of open source code and services for startups. It also supports industry leaders, platform companies and trade associations in forming data consortia with smaller firms, building sector data sets in intelligent manufacturing, materials research and biopharmaceuticals to open to AI startups. Targets through 2028 are more than 10,000 new science and innovation SMEs and more than 2,000 little giant firms, MIIT's term for small companies with a niche technical position. [ITHome](https://www.ithome.com/0/998/403.htm) # AI & Foundation Models - **Alibaba's workplace agent QwenWork passes 30 million users in its first month** — Alibaba said QwenWork passed 30 million users one month after launch, with enterprises more than half, nine days after its international beta (covered [August 26th](https://chinatechdaily.org/archive/china-daily/2026-08-26/)). Alibaba's work has gone into connecting the agent to a company's existing systems rather than into the model itself. An agent is a model that plans multi-step work and calls other software to carry it out, rather than only answering questions. Alibaba open-sourced that layer as MyContext on Aug. 17, infrastructure that turns messages, documents, approvals and knowledge bases into context the agent can call directly. Through DingTalk, Alibaba's workplace messaging app, one command has the agent query customer, inventory and order records across separate business systems. At Changan Automobile, wire-harness selection calculation dropped from two days of work by a senior engineer to five minutes, according to Alibaba. [PingWest](https://www.pingwest.com/w/317059) - **Alibaba puts its coding agent on AI glasses with hands-free control** — Alibaba Cloud launched a glasses edition of Qoder, its agent programming platform, integrating first with Qwen AI glasses and Leqi AI glasses, following Qoder's rebuild into a general-purpose agent workbench (covered [August 27th](https://chinatechdaily.org/archive/china-daily/2026-08-27/)). The edition lets a developer direct and approve an agent's work without touching a screen while looking at the physical thing being debugged. The system uses full-duplex voice, meaning both sides can speak at once, and supports multi-turn dialogue. High-risk operations and items awaiting confirmation appear as cards at the corner of the wearer's field of view, approved by voice or a tap on the temple arm. The camera captures a scene on command to identify code errors, device status and whiteboard sketches. The Qwen glasses version is in invite-only testing, with full functionality due at Alibaba's 2026 Apsara Conference. [PingWest](https://www.pingwest.com/w/317041) # Robotics & Autonomous Systems - **Galbot opens pre-orders for a humanoid it says learns moves by watching people** — Galbot opened nationwide pre-orders for the ET1 humanoid robot, marketed as Galbot ET1, and says orders passed 200 units in the first day. Galbot says the robot picks up new motions on the spot by watching people and interacting with them, with no back-end code changes and no motion scripts loaded in advance. It runs what the company calls a physical-world native agent paired with an embodied model whose adjustable parameters number in the hundred millions, trained on 100,000 hours of human motion data. At the 2026 World Robot Conference the machine performed dance synchronization, backflips and handstands, mirroring human motion in real time and taking voice input. Galbot names tourism guiding, retail footfall generation and exhibition work among the commercial uses it is targeting. [GeekPark](https://geekpark.net/news/369831) - **Robot-hand maker Linkerbot forms a humanoid Tier 1 supplier alliance with 20-plus firms** — Linkerbot and Xingyuanzhi founded the China Embodied Intelligence Tier 1 Industry Alliance on Wednesday, joined by more than 20 supply chain companies. In the car industry a Tier 1 supplier ships finished subsystems straight to the manufacturer, and the alliance borrows that structure to turn integration work each vendor now repeats alone into reusable system knowledge. Members include Orbbec, Hesai and RoboSense among others, covering dexterous hands, lidar, robotic arms, mobile bases and sensors. The stated work runs on three axes: cross-hardware adaptation, cross-platform deployment and scenario validation. Linkerbot builds dexterous hands, and says its Linker Hand series covers all three mainstream drive routes: tendon, linkage and direct drive. Members are to begin joint validation and interface standardization at the product-definition stage and pool the test results. [Leiphone](https://www.leiphone.com/category/robot/JjxeXP5ggz1y4t36.html) # Military Watch - **China and Singapore set a live-fire naval exercise off Zhanjiang** — The Chinese and Singaporean navies will hold the Maritime Cooperation-2026 exercise in early September, in waters and airspace near Zhanjiang in Guangdong province. Holding it there puts the drills in Chinese home waters, reversing the 2025 round that Singapore hosted. Announced subjects are live-fire shooting, underway replenishment and joint search and rescue. Underway replenishment is the transfer of fuel and stores between ships at sea. China's Ministry of National Defense said the exercise is meant to build mutual trust and improve the ability to jointly safeguard regional peace and stability. The two navies first exercised bilaterally in 2015, and the May 2025 round in Singapore covered naval gunfire, replenishment at sea and search and rescue under joint command. [China Military Online](http://www.81.cn/yw_208727/16483257.html) [govt] [Global Times](https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202609/1369786.shtml) [state media] - **China Coast Guard says a cutter-led group patrolled waters east of Taiwan** — A China Coast Guard task group led by the cutter Putuoshan carried out law enforcement patrols in waters east of Taiwan yesterday, and the patrols have been continuous since August, spokesperson Jiang Lue said. That frames a standing presence on the Pacific side of the island as routine law enforcement rather than military activity. The stated purpose is safeguarding normal navigation and working order at sea, along with the lawful rights, lives and property of Chinese citizens, including people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait. Patrols in waters under China's jurisdiction will continue, the China Coast Guard said. [China Military Online](http://www.81.cn/yw_208727/16483258.html) [govt] # Digital Infrastructure - **China opens its BeiDou ground station network data to industry for the first time** — The Ministry of Natural Resources began authorized operation of service data from the national satellite navigation and positioning reference station network today, the first time it has been shared beyond government use. Reference stations are fixed ground receivers at precisely known positions, and the corrections they supply are what lift satellite positioning from meter-level to centimeter-level accuracy. The network runs 7,569 stations nationwide, 420 of them national-level. Officials called it the first case of authorized operation of public data in China's spatiotemporal information infrastructure. The ministry said the step implements the Twenty Data Measures, the central policy that treats data as a factor of production. It signed intent agreements at the Beijing launch with a first batch of users spanning public welfare organizations, key industries and companies. [Wallstreetcn](https://wallstreetcn.com/livenews/3160411) [Xinhua](https://www.news.cn/government/20260904/635342be6dcd48be83bd8b0f90545014/c.html) [state media]