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The gap between China and the United States in leading artificial intelligence (AI) chip technology is set to widen further, after Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang unveiled next-generation processors [...]

US-sanctioned Huawei Tech-nologies has emerged as a key supplier of artificial intelligence (AI) chips in China after Washington implemented export curbs on Nvidia’s advanced ­processors, industry insiders said. Use of [...]

China has stepped up efforts to achieve self-sufficiency in its semiconductor industry by ­creating its largest-ever chip investment fund, disregarding mounting pressure from US tech sanctions and a track record [...]

Huawei Technologies has crammed in ever more China-made components into its latest flagship smartphone, according to a recent teardown analysis of the Pura 70 line, as the tech giant looks [...]

Microsoft is offering China-based employees working in artificial intelligence (AI) the option of relocating to countries such as the US, Australia and Ireland, according to two people familiar with the [...]

A weak economy and falling ­business confidence among ­foreign companies in China appear to have taken a toll on a small American software ­company’s outpost in Dalian. Kingland Systems is [...]

A Japanese electronics ­consultancy has denied it ­conducted a teardown analysis of Huawei Technologies’ new Pura 70 smartphone after a widely ­circulated Chinese social media post claimed the research firm [...]

Huawei Technologies’ new Pura 70 phones, powered by a chip designed by its in-house fabless semiconductor unit HiSilicon, are set to help the Shenzhen-based tech champion regain the top position [...]

Premier Li Qiang met US billionaire Elon Musk in Beijing yesterday, calling Tesla’s development in China “an example of success” in US-China cooperation, state television reported. Musk arrived in Beijing [...]

Apple’s dominance in China’s high-end smartphone market is being challenged by local rivals, including US-sanctioned Huawei Technologies, according to new data from industry consultancy IDC. While smartphone shipments in China [...]

Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) giant SenseTime Group halted trading of its shares in Hong Kong after they surged by more than 30 per cent yesterday morning following the launch of [...]

Smartphone brand Xiaomi has declared initial victory in its foray into the country’s crowded electric-vehicle market, claiming more than 70,000 locked-in orders for its SU7 sedan in the first month [...]

Baidu’s loss-making Apollo ­autonomous driving project will focus on generating revenue and profits after a ­seven-year testing phase, as the internet search giant pivots to generative artificial ­intelligence (AI), according [...]

China is making steady progress in developing home-grown chips and operating systems to reduce its reliance on foreign technologies amid United States sanctions, domestic industry experts say. At Tongming Lake [...]

Mainland smartphone giant Xiaomi is seeing continued strong demand for its first electric vehicle – the SU7, short for Speed Ultra 7 – even as potential buyers face delivery wait [...]

Beijing-based Naura Technology Group started research on lithography systems last month, according to people familiar with the matter, as China’s home-grown semiconductor tool makers try workarounds to produce advanced chips [...]

Smartphone giant Xiaomi ­yesterday launched its much-awaited first electric vehicle – the SU7, short for Speed Ultra – in Beijing at a starting price of 215,900 yuan (HK$237,000) to take [...]

Alibaba Group Holding has decided to withdraw the initial public offering (IPO) for its logistics operation Cainiao in Hong Kong, and has offered to buy all remaining shares in the [...]

China’s top semiconductor ­executives attending an annual industry gathering called for tighter collaboration with their global peers, but none addressed the growing US export curbs on advanced chip technology. Semicon [...]

Baidu’s Ernie 4 artificial ­intelligence (AI) model, one of the country’s leading large language models (LLMs), has outperformed similar technologies from US peers in generating Chinese texts such as those [...]

Nvidia’s recent warning to developers about running its CUDA software, a programming toolkit, on third-party graphic processing units (GPUs) has exposed another weak link in China’s quest for chip self-sufficiency: [...]

The closely guarded semi­conductor capabilities of US- sanctioned Huawei Technologies have come under fresh scrutiny after Nvidia identified the Chinese telecommunications equipment giant as a potential rival in ­artificial intelligence [...]

A sharp jump in the shares of Nvidia Corp in the wake of stellar earnings this week shows the world’s most important chip developer for the artificial ­intelligence (AI) age [...]

US chip giant Nvidia said it has started shipping alternative samples of permissible artificial intelligence (AI) chips to Chinese customers, as Washington’s restrictions on sales of advanced semiconductors to the [...]

Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) and Huawei Technologies, two key players in Beijing’s efforts to defeat US sanctions on advanced chips, are among China’s top recipients of local government funding [...]

Two mainland entrepreneurs are experimenting with generative artificial intelligence (AI) to ­transform traditional companion toys into smart robots designed to hold natural conversations with children, riding on a growing trend [...]

Flash memory chip giant Yangtze Memory Technologies Corp (YMTC) denied it has ties with the Chinese military, saying it is in talks with Washington to address the allegation after it [...]

Newly tailored chips for China from Nvidia are set for direct ­competition with a processor developed by domestic giant Huawei Technologies, with the two products having a similar price and [...]

China’s leading chip companies expect to log huge losses for 2023 in spite of Beijing’s push for greater self-sufficiency, according to corporate filings. Loongson Technology, a fabless chip firm, is [...]

China’s strong demand for chip- making tools bolstered revenue at Lam Research and ASML Holding in 2023 despite the imposition of tough US trade sanctions, according to the latest financial [...]

Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang’s first trip to the mainland in four years is seen as a goodwill gesture to the chip designer’s staff and clients in the country, which [...]

A handheld gadget powered by artificial intelligence (AI) ­developed by start-up Rabbit Inc is quickly gaining popularity after capturing the imagination of ­consumers during its launch this month as a [...]

China’s total output of integrated circuits (ICs) in 2023 increased 6.9 per cent from a year earlier despite sluggish demand at one of its largest wafer foundries in the second [...]

State-backed Chinese semiconductor equipment giant Naura Technology Group expects its 2023 revenue to jump by around half from a year earlier, as leaps in its technology helped it gain a [...]

Chinese etching tools giant Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment (AMEC) expects revenue last year to have grown more than 30 per cent from 2022, as core technology breakthroughs enabled the firm to [...]

China’s imports of integrated circuits (IC) plunged by both volume and value in 2023, although semiconductors remained the country’s largest import item ahead of crude oil, according to customs data [...]

Nvidia, the US chip maker banned by Washington from selling its most advanced semiconductors to China, has revealed solid progress in the mainland’s electric vehicle market with its self-driving technology. [...]

China will press ahead this year with developing large language models – the technology used to train ChatGPT and similar applications – and artificial intelligence (AI) systems, despite restrictions imposed [...]

China’s semiconductor sector weathered a tough year that saw an escalation of US technology sanctions that restricted its access to advanced chipmaking tools and artificial intelligence (AI) processors, although industry [...]

The United States’ moves to investigate American companies’ procurement of Chinese-made legacy node chips has triggered a backlash from the Chinese ­government, which blamed Washington for “weaponising” trade issues. Foreign [...]

China’s imports of critical chip- making lithography systems from the Netherlands surged by 1,050 per cent in value in November, in a sign domestic semiconductor firms are not yet cut [...]

A Chinese graphics processing unit (GPU) start-up that has been put on a US trade blacklist has introduced a new graphics card along with what it called the ­country’s first [...]

A host of smaller ­Chinese companies have joined the nation’s tech giants in the scramble to snap up US maker Nvidia’s graphics ­processing units (GPUs) to develop artificial intelligence (AI) [...]

Lei Jun, founder of smartphone brand Xiaomi, said he is ready to bring the company’s first electric vehicle to the market, having spent more than 10 billion yuan (HK$11.1 billion) [...]

A leading Chinese memory chip maker may have achieved another technological breakthrough amid tight US trade restrictions, according to third-party analysis of a company paper delivered to an international conference. [...]

Alibaba Group Holding’s research unit Damo Academy has launched an artificial intelligence (AI) large language model tailored for Southeast Asian languages, ­highlighting the company’s ­ambition to grow in markets in [...]

At a study session of the Politburo five years ago, President Xi Jinping said artificial intelligence (AI) was a strategic priority and China must occupy the “commanding heights” in core [...]

A leading Chinese semiconductor company has made the country’s first new generation of advanced mobile memory chips, achieving key progress in narrowing the gap between its South Korean and US [...]

H3C Technologies, a Chinese server maker, has decided to cut the pay of its mid-to-senior-level employees as the impact of the latest US tech sanctions spreads from cloud service providers [...]