{
  "id": 6544313,
  "title": "Sources: Chinese AI chipmakers Huawei, Cambricon, MetaX, and Iluvatar CoreX have raised prices for current and next-gen chips by 20%-50% due to rising HBM costs (Reuters)",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/10/sources-chinese-ai-chipmakers-huawei-cambricon-metax-and-iluvatar",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-09-10T05:30:02.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Techmeme",
    "slug": "techmeme",
    "url": "https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/chinas-ai-chipmakers-raise-prices-high-bandwidth-memory-shortage-bites-2026-09-10/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Chinese AI chipmakers Huawei, Cambricon, MetaX, and Iluvatar CoreX have increased prices for their current and next-generation chips by 20-50%. According to Reuters, this price hike is due to rising HBM costs.\n\nSeveral Chinese AI firms are preparing for initial public offerings. DeepSeek, a frontier artificial intelligence lab, has hired underwriters, including Citic Securities, for a domestic IPO on the Shanghai Stock Exchange's Star market. The company is valued at around 500 billion yuan, or $74 billion, before investment.\n\nDeepSeek is not the only firm pursuing an IPO. Moonshot AI, a Beijing-based company, has confidentially filed for a Hong Kong IPO and is valued at around $50 billion before the IPO, aiming to raise $3-5 billion. Other firms, such as Z.ai and MiniMax, have also been working towards funding and IPOs.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 4,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Free Malaysia Today",
        "title": "China’s AI chipmakers raise prices as HBM shortage bites",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/10/chinas-ai-chipmakers-raise-prices-as-hbm-shortage-bites",
        "published": "2026-09-10T07:14:50.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "ITP.net",
        "title": "China’s AI Chipmakers Raise Prices as HBM Shortage Drives Up Costs",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/10/chinas-ai-chipmakers-raise-prices-as-hbm-shortage-drives-up-costs",
        "published": "2026-09-10T10:03:53.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Economic Times Tech",
        "title": "China's AI chipmakers raise prices as high-bandwidth memory shortage bites",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/10/chinas-ai-chipmakers-raise-prices-as-high-bandwidth-memory-shortage",
        "published": "2026-09-10T12:43:44.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}