https://www.scmp.com/rss/517918/feed The latest news on Jensen Huang, co-founder, president and CEO of NVIDIA, including American business news and updates. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Brian Rhoads,Raymond Ma Brian Rhoads,Raymond Ma DeepSeek is touting its ultra-low charges for models unveiled last week, stoking price competition as China challenges the United States in artificial intelligence (AI). Developers are being offered 75 per cent discounts on the newly released DeepSeek V4 Pro. Fees for input cache hits across the Hangzhou-based company’s AI platforms have also been slashed to 10 per cent of the original price. That provides a cost saving for users who frequently make similar or repeat requests. The V4 Pro and the... https://www.scmp.com/plus/tech/big-tech/article/3351567/deepseek-takes-step-away-nvidia-amid-export-curbs-china?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/plus/tech/big-tech/article/3351567/deepseek-takes-step-away-nvidia-amid-export-curbs-china?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 27 Apr 2026 09:07:47 +0000 Daniel Ren,Iris Deng Daniel Ren,Iris Deng Physical artificial intelligence (AI) – the marriage of advanced machines with “brains” that allow them to interact with their environment – is expanding rapidly in China. It’s fuelling the development of smarter robots, drones and driverless cars that are appearing on roads and factory floors, in the skies and even on stage. Delivery drones have taken flight over cities like southern China’s Shenzhen, while delivery bots are riding city subways. The first autonomous vehicles are plying public... https://www.scmp.com/plus/tech/big-tech/article/3351514/chinas-physical-ai-progress-seen-roads-skies-and-factories?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/plus/tech/big-tech/article/3351514/chinas-physical-ai-progress-seen-roads-skies-and-factories?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 27 Apr 2026 04:26:07 +0000 Vincent Chow,Wency Chen Vincent Chow,Wency Chen Huawei Technologies’ newest Ascend 950PR and 950DT chips enjoyed “day zero” adaptation to DeepSeek’s latest V4 model, the Shenzhen-based tech giant said in a livestream on Friday, just hours after the model’s release. The hardware-software collaboration between the two Chinese firms underscores the progress China has made in tech self-reliance, a top national priority for Beijing amid US efforts to block its access to advanced semiconductor chips and chipmaking equipment. During the livestream... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3351349/huawei-deepseek-strengthen-chinas-ai-self-reliance-collaboration-v4-model?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3351349/huawei-deepseek-strengthen-chinas-ai-self-reliance-collaboration-v4-model?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 24 Apr 2026 14:30:08 +0000 Wency Chen Wency Chen The central processing unit (CPU) – the chip technology that drove Intel’s sales and profits for decades but was overshadowed by the graphics processing unit (GPU) in the AI age – is making a comeback. That’s according to Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan, speaking on the company’s latest earnings call. “The CPU is [reasserting] itself as the indispensable foundation of the AI era,” he said. “This isn’t just our wishful thinking, it’s what we hear from our customers.” Intel shares rose about 20 per cent in... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3351277/how-intel-riding-cpu-comeback-ai-shifts-and-where-china-stands?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3351277/how-intel-riding-cpu-comeback-ai-shifts-and-where-china-stands?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 24 Apr 2026 08:00:21 +0000 Khushboo Razdan Khushboo Razdan US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick sought to quell fears in Senate testimony on Wednesday that American technology was aiding China’s military, but drew scepticism given the US president’s willingness to sell advanced semiconductors. Lutnick asserted before the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee that US President Donald Trump was striking a “delicate balance” on the technology transfer issue given his cordial personal relationship with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, claiming that China had... https://www.scmp.com/news/us/science-technology/article/3351059/china-bought-zero-h200-chips-today-says-lutnick-he-cites-delicate-balance-xi?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/us/science-technology/article/3351059/china-bought-zero-h200-chips-today-says-lutnick-he-cites-delicate-balance-xi?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 22 Apr 2026 21:46:17 +0000 Vincent Chow Vincent Chow In the first of a three-part series on Anthropic’s new powerful Mythos AI model, we look at its impact on Chinese AI, cybersecurity and competition with the US. US start-up Anthropic announced its latest artificial intelligence model Claude Mythos Preview on April 7, sparking an unprecedented global response among policymakers and regulators due to its powerful ability to identify and exploit cybersecurity vulnerabilities. Instead of a public release, Anthropic released Mythos to a consortium of... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3350987/anthropics-mythos-stoking-cybersecurity-fears-what-does-it-mean-china?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3350987/anthropics-mythos-stoking-cybersecurity-fears-what-does-it-mean-china?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 22 Apr 2026 08:00:08 +0000 Coco Feng Coco Feng Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said on a recent podcast that if Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek optimised its new models on chips from Huawei Technologies, it would be “a horrible outcome” for the US. If “future AI models are optimised in a very different way than the American tech stack”, and as “AI diffuses out into the rest of the world” with Chinese standards and technology, China “will become superior to” the US, Huang said on the Dwarkesh Podcast on Wednesday. The conversation... https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3350460/nvidias-jensen-huang-warns-huawei-chips-deepseek-ai-models-would-be-horrible-us?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3350460/nvidias-jensen-huang-warns-huawei-chips-deepseek-ai-models-would-be-horrible-us?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 17 Apr 2026 10:00:14 +0000 Jeffrey Wu Jeffrey Wu A quiet but consequential shift is reshaping the global artificial intelligence competition, and it has little to do with which country builds the most powerful model. Jensen Huang did not mean to describe a geopolitical strategy. But when Nvidia’s chief executive declared, “Your workload is inference, your tokens are your commodity, and that compute is your revenue,” he was articulating, from the supply side, something China had concluded from the other direction. To understand why, start with... https://www.scmp.com/opinion/china-opinion/article/3349947/us-controls-chips-ai-race-china-controls-scoreboard?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/opinion/china-opinion/article/3349947/us-controls-chips-ai-race-china-controls-scoreboard?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 15 Apr 2026 08:30:09 +0000 Wency Chen Wency Chen Yuanjie Semiconductor Technology, a Chinese maker of laser chips for optical communications, has emerged as one of the mainland exchanges’ biggest beneficiaries of the artificial intelligence infrastructure boom – with its shares rising nearly ninefold over the past year as it pursues a Hong Kong listing. The Shaanxi-based integrated device manufacturer, whose shares closed at 1,100 yuan on Friday, now ranks second by share price among mainland-listed companies, trailing only Kweichow Moutai at... https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3348311/what-makes-yuanjie-chinese-optical-chip-star-and-hong-kong-ipo-candidate-stand-out?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3348311/what-makes-yuanjie-chinese-optical-chip-star-and-hong-kong-ipo-candidate-stand-out?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 30 Mar 2026 02:00:06 +0000 Daniel Ren Daniel Ren China’s two biggest makers of lidar sensors for cars, Hesai Group and RoboSense Technology, have ramped up investments in robotics products as the country consolidates its leading position in building a global supply chain for the fast-growing sector. Shanghai-based Hesai, the world’s largest producer of lidar sensors that help cars map terrain, planned to spend 200 million yuan (US$28.9 million) this year to design and manufacture “eyes and muscles” for robots, creating a new growth engine... https://www.scmp.com/business/china-business/article/3347995/chinas-lidar-giants-pivot-robotics-jensen-huang-praises-chinese-supply-chain?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/business/china-business/article/3347995/chinas-lidar-giants-pivot-robotics-jensen-huang-praises-chinese-supply-chain?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 26 Mar 2026 09:12:13 +0000 Reuters Reuters US President Donald Trump appointed Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Oracle Executive Chairman Larry Ellison and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to a council that will weigh ‌in on AI policy and other issues, the White House said on Wednesday. Google co-founder Sergey Brin and AMD CEO Lisa Su are also part of the initial batch of 13 members from the industry named to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). Trump ⁠has made securing US leadership in artificial... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3347903/trump-names-ceos-meta-nvidia-13-member-science-and-tech-council?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3347903/trump-names-ceos-meta-nvidia-13-member-science-and-tech-council?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 25 Mar 2026 14:22:02 +0000 Dannie Peng Dannie Peng China has officially designated ciyuan as the translation for “token” – the computational units that power tools such as Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini – in a move widely seen as devising a new form of global currency for the age of artificial intelligence. In Chinese, ci translates to “word”, while yuan is commonly used as a synonym for “currency”. For instance, the basic unit of the Chinese renminbi is the yuan, and most foreign currencies are referred to as yuan in Chinese, prefixed by their... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3347887/china-names-trillions-ai-token-after-yuan-should-us-worry-dollar?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3347887/china-names-trillions-ai-token-after-yuan-should-us-worry-dollar?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 25 Mar 2026 12:00:26 +0000 Wency Chen Wency Chen “Tokens are the new commodity,” said Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, clad in his iconic leather jacket, at the company’s annual flagship developer conference, GTC, last week in San Jose, California. The chip designer’s helmsman wants to recast his company not as a silicon vendor but as the architect of what he calls “AI [artificial intelligence] factories”, whose standard product is “token”. While Nvidia is busy writing the rules of a new token economy, a parallel debate is emerging in China around the... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3347495/how-china-could-dominate-ai-eras-tokenomics-vast-power-grids-and-low-cost-models?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3347495/how-china-could-dominate-ai-eras-tokenomics-vast-power-grids-and-low-cost-models?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 22 Mar 2026 23:30:22 +0000 Ann Cao Ann Cao Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says the US robotics industry will have to rely on China’s supply chain despite the US pioneering the market, as the company bets on physical AI and looks to return to the Chinese market. “I think China is formidable,” Huang said when asked about the country’s rise in the robotics industry during a podcast hosted by Silicon Valley tech executives. “The reason for that is because their microelectronics, motors, rare earth and magnets – which are foundational to robotics –... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3347427/nvidias-huang-calls-china-formidable-robotics-company-bets-physical-ai?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3347427/nvidias-huang-calls-china-formidable-robotics-company-bets-physical-ai?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 21 Mar 2026 10:18:16 +0000 Neil Denslow,Raymond Ma Neil Denslow,Raymond Ma Nvidia is restarting production of H200s, its second-most powerful artificial intelligence (AI) chip, after getting long-awaited approval from Beijing to sell the processors in China. The US chip giant has won licences for “many customers in China” and has received orders from “many” companies, CEO Jensen Huang said Tuesday at a developer conference in San Jose, California. “Our supply chain is getting fired up.” Production of the chip was halted last year. Chinese regulators have opened the... https://www.scmp.com/plus/tech/tech-war/article/3347013/nvidia-restarts-h200-ai-chip-production-china-allows-sales?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/plus/tech/tech-war/article/3347013/nvidia-restarts-h200-ai-chip-production-china-allows-sales?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 18 Mar 2026 09:01:33 +0000 Reuters Reuters Nvidia is restarting ⁠the production of one of the company’s chips that is designed to comply with US export restrictions on China, CEO Jensen Huang said at a press conference on Tuesday. The company had halted ‌manufacturing last year of its H200 chip, which is based on its ageing Hopper technology, because of increasing regulatory hurdles in the US and China, according to a report at the time. Since then, Nvidia has received licences to export the H200 from the US government ⁠and has taken... https://www.scmp.com/news/article/3346943/nvidia-restarting-production-china-ai-chip-variant-says-ceo-jensen-huang?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/article/3346943/nvidia-restarting-production-china-ai-chip-variant-says-ceo-jensen-huang?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 17 Mar 2026 22:31:27 +0000 Coco Feng,Yeon Woo Lee Coco Feng,Yeon Woo Lee Nvidia’s latest language processing chip, unveiled at the company’s annual artificial intelligence conference, has opened a new frontier in the AI inference arms race, as the booming market for AI agents like OpenClaw presents a complex new reality for China’s semiconductor industry, according to analysts. The Nvidia Groq 3 Language Processing Unit (LPU), introduced on Monday at GTC 2026 in San Jose, California, was described by the company as an accelerator with fast memory and low latency... https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3346880/how-nvidias-inference-bet-gtc-poses-challenge-and-opportunity-china?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3346880/how-nvidias-inference-bet-gtc-poses-challenge-and-opportunity-china?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 17 Mar 2026 14:00:10 +0000 Ben Jiang Ben Jiang As global concern rises over artificial intelligence and the potential for AI agents to disrupt lives and industries, people in southern China are rushing to embrace the technology even as privacy concerns intensify. On Friday, nearly 1,000 people lined up outside Chinese tech giant Tencent Holdings’ Shenzhen headquarters to install OpenClaw – a popular open-source AI agent software – on their computers. The crowd, a mix of amateur developers, retired space engineers, housewives, students and AI... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3345865/openclaw-fever-why-china-rushing-raise-lobster?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3345865/openclaw-fever-why-china-rushing-raise-lobster?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 08 Mar 2026 14:00:08 +0000 Bloomberg Bloomberg US officials are considering caps on the number of AI accelerators Nvidia can export to any one Chinese company, which would further constrain the chipmaker’s re-entry into a crucial market. The Trump administration has talked about limiting Chinese firms to buying 75,000 of Nvidia’s H200 chips each, according to people familiar with the matter. Shipments of Advanced Micro Devices’ MI325 chips, which have similar capabilities, would also count towards a customer’s cap, the people said. These... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3345195/us-considers-capping-nvidia-h200-sales-75000-chinese-customer?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3345195/us-considers-capping-nvidia-h200-sales-75000-chinese-customer?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 02 Mar 2026 23:45:24 +0000 Ann Cao Ann Cao Nvidia has yet to generate any revenue from its H200 chips in China and does not know if any sales will be allowed in the country, the company said, as the US chip giant reported record quarterly revenue on surging demand for data centre processors. While the Santa Clara-based tech giant remains the primary beneficiary of the global generative artificial intelligence boom, its ability to navigate the US-China tech war has become a challenge, with the pipeline for the H200 – Nvidia’s second-most... https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3344663/china-freeze-h200-chip-sales-clouds-nvidias-record-earnings?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3344663/china-freeze-h200-chip-sales-clouds-nvidias-record-earnings?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 26 Feb 2026 02:00:05 +0000 Andrew Sheng Andrew Sheng The subject of artificial intelligence (AI) has become so prevalent in global discourse that the recent World Economic Forum in Davos reportedly had more than 200 sessions for corporate leaders to discuss AI from multiple angles. The conversations focused on five key themes: AI and technology’s role in geopolitical rivalry; AI as a productivity and growth driver; AI as a job disrupter; ethics and governance for generative AI and robot systems; and AI’s environmental footprint. Underlying these... https://www.scmp.com/opinion/world-opinion/article/3343344/age-ai-we-must-learn-act-future-clear?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/opinion/world-opinion/article/3343344/age-ai-we-must-learn-act-future-clear?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 13 Feb 2026 08:30:08 +0000 Vincent Chow Vincent Chow Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) needs to “work very hard” to meet growing demand from leading US chip designer Nvidia, which alone could require TSMC to more than double its capacity in the next decade, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has said. Huang’s remarks followed a high-profile banquet on Saturday evening with executives of key supply chain partners in Taiwan, including TSMC chairman and CEO C C Wei and Foxconn chairman Young Liu, as the Nvidia founder sought to shore up supply... https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3341994/nvidias-jensen-huang-urges-tsmc-expand-capacity-amid-ai-chip-crunch?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3341994/nvidias-jensen-huang-urges-tsmc-expand-capacity-amid-ai-chip-crunch?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 01 Feb 2026 11:00:08 +0000 Coco Feng Coco Feng ByteDance and Alibaba Group Holding are poised to ratchet up their artificial intelligence infrastructure initiatives, as the global AI arms race continues to intensify. The two companies’ latest moves lend weight to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s recent remarks at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, that the world was witnessing the biggest infrastructure buildout in history and that trillions of dollars of infrastructure still had to be built. Beijing-based ByteDance, operator of TikTok... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3341863/china-tech-giants-bytedance-and-alibaba-ramp-ai-infrastructure-efforts?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3341863/china-tech-giants-bytedance-and-alibaba-ramp-ai-infrastructure-efforts?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 30 Jan 2026 12:00:05 +0000 Ralph Jennings Ralph Jennings The Taiwan government has cleared Nvidia to establish a NT$3.3 billion (US$105 million) headquarters on the island that produces most of the world’s advanced semiconductors, which the Silicon Valley chip designer will need to feed the red-hot global artificial intelligence sector. Nvidia would use the Taipei site for a “commercial office” building and the acquisition of land for a “comprehensive business park”, the island’s Ministry of Economic Affairs announced on Wednesday. The approval came a... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3341644/nvidia-wins-approval-taiwan-headquarters-secure-ai-chip-supply?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3341644/nvidia-wins-approval-taiwan-headquarters-secure-ai-chip-supply?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 29 Jan 2026 09:00:17 +0000 Zoey Zhang Zoey Zhang Not long ago, a humble fruit stall in Shanghai saw its sales skyrocket when Jensen Huang, the CEO of Nvidia, dropped by for some food. Meanwhile, a once-obscure village in southern China has become a tourist hotspot, drawing over 10,000 visitors daily, simply for being the hometown of Liang Wenfeng, the founder of the Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) company DeepSeek. During Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s 44-hour visit to China in 2023, the buzz surrounding his meals and itinerary on mainland social... https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/china-personalities/article/3341558/why-tech-billionaires-enjoy-rock-star-treatment-china-compared-us?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/china-personalities/article/3341558/why-tech-billionaires-enjoy-rock-star-treatment-china-compared-us?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 29 Jan 2026 06:00:08 +0000 Ann Cao,Coco Feng,Wency Chen Ann Cao,Coco Feng,Wency Chen Beijing has begun approving imports of Nvidia’s H200 graphics processing units (GPUs), according to two sources familiar with the matter, ending regulatory uncertainty over the US tech giant’s second most powerful artificial intelligence chip. The first batch was expected to go to Big Tech companies, which were in urgent need of the GPU, a source said. However, access for state-backed companies, such as telecommunication network operators, was expected to remain under tight control, the source... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3341568/beijing-clears-nvidias-h200-imports-ending-chip-uncertainty-china-tech-giants?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3341568/beijing-clears-nvidias-h200-imports-ending-chip-uncertainty-china-tech-giants?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 28 Jan 2026 12:00:12 +0000 Wency Chen Wency Chen Chinese chip designer Shanghai Iluvatar CoreX Semiconductor has unveiled a multi-year graphics processing unit (GPU) architecture road map, aiming to surpass Nvidia’s next-generation Rubin platform within two years, amid the country’s push for semiconductor self-reliance. The company said its Tianshu architecture had outperformed Nvidia’s Hopper platform last year, while a second architecture, Tianxuan, would be built to benchmark against the US firm’s Blackwell platform. A third, Tianji, was... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3341368/iluvatar-corex-targets-nvidias-rubin-gpu-road-map-amid-china-chip-push?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3341368/iluvatar-corex-targets-nvidias-rubin-gpu-road-map-amid-china-chip-push?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 27 Jan 2026 13:00:13 +0000 Alice Yan Alice Yan Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang bought street snacks worth 65 yuan (US$9) at a market in Shanghai while giving its owner a lai see of 600 yuan (US$90), but the operator did not recognise the artificial intelligence (AI) chip mogul. Huang recently sparked a storm on mainland social media thanks to his down-to-earth and friendly demeanour during a visit to a wet market in Shanghai. It is his routine to visit his company’s offices in mainland China before flying to Taiwan before the Lunar New Year each... https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/china-personalities/article/3341357/whos-he-china-vendor-remains-unfazed-after-receiving-lai-see-nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/china-personalities/article/3341357/whos-he-china-vendor-remains-unfazed-after-receiving-lai-see-nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 27 Jan 2026 10:00:07 +0000 Ann Cao Ann Cao Jensen Huang marked the coming Lunar New Year with Nvidia employees in Shanghai on Saturday, as the CEO of the world’s most valuable company made his first trip to China in 2026 amid uncertainties around its H200 graphics processing unit (GPU). Huang received a rock-star welcome when he joined Nvidia’s annual Lunar New Year celebration, according to two employees who asked not to be named as they were not authorised to speak to the media. Huang gave a speech and handed out tangerines that he... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3341148/jensen-huang-celebrates-lunar-new-year-nvidia-employees-shanghai?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3341148/jensen-huang-celebrates-lunar-new-year-nvidia-employees-shanghai?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 25 Jan 2026 06:22:17 +0000 Coco Feng,Wency Chen Coco Feng,Wency Chen Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has begun his latest trip to China – visiting a grocery market in Shanghai on Saturday after touring the chipmaker’s local office – at a time when Beijing is expected to allow imports of the company’s H200 artificial intelligence chips. Huang was seen at a grocery market on Saturday in Shanghai’s busy Lujiazui area, looking relaxed, according to multiple photos circulated on social media. Earlier, Huang met with Shanghai-based staff to review Nvidia’s milestones for 2025... https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3341097/nvidia-ceo-tours-shanghai-office-amid-fresh-signs-china-thaw?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3341097/nvidia-ceo-tours-shanghai-office-amid-fresh-signs-china-thaw?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 24 Jan 2026 06:20:46 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse US President Donald Trump stole the show at the World Economic Forum in Davos, but he may have also made the annual gabfest of the global elite relevant again – at least for a week. The relevance of the gathering of CEOs and political leaders in the Swiss Alps is regularly questioned by critics who deride it as an out-of-touch echo chamber where little gets done. But all eyes were on this year’s Davos as Trump barrelled into town with a geopolitical storm hanging over the picturesque ski resort,... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3341046/how-trump-stole-show-davos-and-revived-wef-never-been-more-relevant?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3341046/how-trump-stole-show-davos-and-revived-wef-never-been-more-relevant?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 23 Jan 2026 12:42:10 +0000 Ann Cao,Coco Feng,Wency Chen,Ralph Jennings Ann Cao,Coco Feng,Wency Chen,Ralph Jennings Chinese AI companies wanting high-performance artificial intelligence chips from Nvidia are facing a dilemma: source them from the black market at much higher prices, or accept lower performance domestic alternatives from the likes of Huawei Technologies. That is because Chinese customs officials are currently holding Nvidia’s H200 chips at the border, despite Washington granting approval for the US company to ship its second most advanced graphics processing unit (GPU) to China, according to... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3340810/china-techs-gpu-dilemma-pay-more-h200-black-market-or-accept-slower-local-ai-chips?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3340810/china-techs-gpu-dilemma-pay-more-h200-black-market-or-accept-slower-local-ai-chips?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 22 Jan 2026 07:30:03 +0000 Khushboo Razdan,Bochen Han Khushboo Razdan,Bochen Han A move to curb US President Donald Trump’s power to sell advanced AI chips to China moved a step closer on Wednesday when a Republican-led congressional panel joined hands with their Democratic counterparts, brushing aside objections from the White House and chip giant Nvidia. The action has put Representative Brian Mast, the Republican chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, on a collision course with Trump’s top AI adviser David Sacks and drawn sharp criticism from Maga-aligned... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3340751/trumps-decision-sell-ai-chips-china-under-pressure-house-bill-against-deal-advances?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3340751/trumps-decision-sell-ai-chips-china-under-pressure-house-bill-against-deal-advances?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 21 Jan 2026 23:14:09 +0000 Xiaofei Xu,Wency Chen Xiaofei Xu,Wency Chen The world is witnessing the biggest infrastructure buildout in history, with the foundation for an artificial intelligence system evolving quickly, according to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. “We are now a few hundred billion dollars into it,” he said at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos on Wednesday, adding that trillions of dollars of infrastructure still had to be built. Huang described the AI industry as a “five-layered cake” – energy at the bottom, followed by chips, cloud infrastructure,... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3340709/watch-nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-speak-davos?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3340709/watch-nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-speak-davos?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 21 Jan 2026 10:33:09 +0000 Ben Jiang,Coco Feng,Vincent Chow Ben Jiang,Coco Feng,Vincent Chow “Small yard, high fence” was how Jake Sullivan, national security adviser under President Joe Biden, described US tech policy towards China. The approach, designed to fence off sensitive US technologies from China, was most commonly associated with export controls that, among others, restricted Chinese firms’ access to Nvidia’s advanced chips, the critical inputs for developing cutting-edge artificial intelligence systems. Beijing is now fighting back by taking a leaf out of that playbook. For... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3340168/fighting-back-beijing-builds-its-own-small-yard-high-fence-shut-out-us-tech?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3340168/fighting-back-beijing-builds-its-own-small-yard-high-fence-shut-out-us-tech?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 17 Jan 2026 02:00:11 +0000 Brian Rhoads,Neil Denslow Brian Rhoads,Neil Denslow US President Donald Trump will seek critical-mineral deals with other countries, rather than immediately imposing tariffs, as he strives to loosen China’s stranglehold on global supplies. Trump intends to “negotiate agreements with foreign nations to ensure the United States has adequate critical mineral supplies and to mitigate the supply chain vulnerabilities as quickly as possible”, he said in a proclamation released on Wednesday. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and Trade Representative... https://www.scmp.com/plus/article/3340013/trump-tackles-chinas-rare-earth-grip-talks-instead-tariffs?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/plus/article/3340013/trump-tackles-chinas-rare-earth-grip-talks-instead-tariffs?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 15 Jan 2026 09:04:15 +0000 Xinmei Shen,Bochen Han Xinmei Shen,Bochen Han Witnesses and lawmakers at a foreign affairs hearing blasted the Trump administration’s approval for the sale of Nvidia’s H200 AI chips to China and called for it to reverse the decision, as the White House’s top technology adviser defended the move in the administration’s first public testimony discussing the latest export control measures. Allowing China to buy Nvidia’s second most powerful AI chip is a “wrong path” that would “supercharge” Beijing’s military modernisation and damage the US’... https://www.scmp.com/news/us/article/3339935/trump-administration-faces-backlash-over-nvidia-h200-ai-chip-sales-china?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/us/article/3339935/trump-administration-faces-backlash-over-nvidia-h200-ai-chip-sales-china?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 14 Jan 2026 22:34:38 +0000 Orange Wang,Meredith Chen Orange Wang,Meredith Chen When US President Donald Trump gave his blessing to sales of Nvidia’s powerful H200 artificial intelligence chips to China, he sparked a national security backlash in both countries. Rather than seeing it as an olive branch, many Chinese commenters interpreted the move as a sophisticated Trojan horse-style trap that aimed to make Beijing dependent on American technologies in advanced semiconductors and other chokepoint sectors. Trump’s green light for the H200 – a template that he said would be... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3339866/does-trumps-nvidia-chip-flip-reveal-anxieties-both-sides-china-us-tech-war?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3339866/does-trumps-nvidia-chip-flip-reveal-anxieties-both-sides-china-us-tech-war?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 14 Jan 2026 22:00:14 +0000 Xinmei Shen Xinmei Shen The US has officially green-lighted Nvidia to sell its H200 artificial intelligence chips in China, as the Trump administration seeks to strike a balance between curtailing China’s AI progress and maintaining American AI firms’ global market share. The H200, US chip giant Nvidia’s second-most-advanced AI processor, can be shipped to China under conditions that include that its China shipments account for no more than half of the amount sold domestically, according to the Department of Commerce’s... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3339797/us-government-approves-nvidia-h200-chip-exports-china?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3339797/us-government-approves-nvidia-h200-chip-exports-china?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 13 Jan 2026 23:14:41 +0000 Bloomberg Bloomberg Jensen Huang took the stage at the CES trade show in Las Vegas this week to make the clearest pitch yet for Nvidia’s autonomous driving technology. In doing so, the CEO’s vision for vehicles that can drive themselves edged into the terrain of major customers like Tesla and its boss, Elon Musk. Huang’s remarks sparked a widely watched – if notably polite – indirect multiday exchange between two of the most influential figures in technology. It also sharpened a central question about autonomous... https://www.scmp.com/business/companies/article/3339482/nvidia-tesla-chase-same-self-driving-goal-different-paths?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/business/companies/article/3339482/nvidia-tesla-chase-same-self-driving-goal-different-paths?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 11 Jan 2026 06:21:00 +0000 Bochen Han Bochen Han A senior Trump administration official has defended exports of advanced chips to China, arguing that the US is building its own “digital silk road” to counteract concerns that Washington is eroding the competitiveness of top US models. The comments, at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Thursday, came amid questions from Chinese observers over why the US government would make certain advanced integrated circuits, such as Nvidia’s H200 artificial intelligence chips, available to the... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3339266/chip-sales-china-part-us-plan-build-its-own-digital-silk-road-official?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3339266/chip-sales-china-part-us-plan-build-its-own-digital-silk-road-official?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 09 Jan 2026 03:40:19 +0000 Ann Cao Ann Cao Influential Chinese semiconductor expert Wei Shaojun urged caution for mainland companies that place orders for Nvidia’s H200 artificial intelligence chips, as it remained a puzzle why the US government would make these advanced integrated circuits available to the country. “The US’ inconsistent stance on advanced chips – alternating between limited easing and renewed pressure – has left users struggling to discern its true strategic intent,” Wei, vice-president at the China Semiconductor... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3339186/tech-war-china-semiconductor-expert-suggests-vigilance-buying-nvidias-h200-ai-chips?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3339186/tech-war-china-semiconductor-expert-suggests-vigilance-buying-nvidias-h200-ai-chips?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 08 Jan 2026 10:00:35 +0000 Brian Rhoads,Raymond Ma Brian Rhoads,Raymond Ma China may be revving up its tech war with the US by reviewing Facebook owner Meta’s US$2.5 billion acquisition of artificial intelligence (AI) agent Manus and by reportedly deterring orders for Nvidia H200 chips. The Manus deal has prompted concerns as it could encourage other Chinese AI companies to shift overseas, sources told the Post before the official review announcement. The parent company of Manus moved to Singapore from China last year, partly because of US regulatory concerns. The... https://www.scmp.com/plus/article/3339171/meta-manus-probe-shows-risks-chinas-ai-boom?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/plus/article/3339171/meta-manus-probe-shows-risks-chinas-ai-boom?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 08 Jan 2026 09:00:32 +0000 Xinmei Shen Xinmei Shen Personal computer giant Lenovo Group has unveiled a new personal AI agent and a host of enterprise artificial intelligence initiatives at CES this year, in a splashy display of its AI ambitions. Lenovo on Tuesday announced Qira, a “personal AI super agent” designed to work across multiple devices including Lenovo laptops, tablets and Motorola smartphones. Qira can summarise notifications, offer real-time transcriptions and translations, and coordinate other AI agents for tasks such as travel... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3339119/lenovo-unveils-new-ai-agent-nvidia-tie-glitzy-show-ces-2026?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3339119/lenovo-unveils-new-ai-agent-nvidia-tie-glitzy-show-ces-2026?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 08 Jan 2026 03:12:20 +0000 Eunice Xu Eunice Xu Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on Monday credited Chinese start-up DeepSeek with “activating” a global shift towards open-source artificial intelligence, as he used a keynote at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas to unveil new hardware aimed at training ever more powerful AI systems. Speaking at the annual trade show, Huang said DeepSeek’s models – released earlier last year – had accelerated the growth of the open-source ecosystem, even after the company’s R1 model, which required fewer... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3338887/nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-credits-deepseek-accelerating-open-source-ai-shift?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3338887/nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-credits-deepseek-accelerating-open-source-ai-shift?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 06 Jan 2026 06:59:34 +0000 Reuters Reuters Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said on Monday that the company’s next generation of chips is in “full production”, saying they can deliver five times the artificial intelligence computing of the company’s previous chips when serving up chatbots and other AI apps. In a speech at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the leader of the world’s most valuable company revealed new details about its chips, which will arrive later this year and which Nvidia executives told Reuters are already in the... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3338845/nvidia-ceo-huang-says-next-generation-chips-full-production?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3338845/nvidia-ceo-huang-says-next-generation-chips-full-production?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 06 Jan 2026 02:51:23 +0000 Xinmei Shen Xinmei Shen China’s humanoid robot and artificial intelligence hardware makers are expected to be out in force next week at CES, the annual consumer electronics trade show in Las Vegas, to show their latest innovations to a global audience amid an escalating US-China tech rivalry. Nearly a dozen well-known humanoid robot manufacturers – including Unitree Robotics, AgiBot, Galbot, Engine AI, Noetix Robotics and state-backed X-Humanoid, also known as the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Centre – are expected... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3338600/chinas-humanoid-robot-makers-hong-kong-start-ups-set-dazzle-ces-2026?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3338600/chinas-humanoid-robot-makers-hong-kong-start-ups-set-dazzle-ces-2026?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 05 Jan 2026 03:00:10 +0000 Raymond Ma,Neil Denslow Raymond Ma,Neil Denslow Artificial intelligence chip designer Shanghai Biren Technology skyrocketed on its Hong Kong stock market debut, fuelled by China’s tech ambitions and rampant demand for new listings that has helped the exchange regain its initial public offering (IPO) crown. Biren rose 76 per cent to close at HK$34.46, after earlier trading at more than double its HK$19.60 IPO price. The company raised HK$5.58 billion (US$717 million) in its stock offering, with the retail portion more than 2,300 times... https://www.scmp.com/plus/article/3338493/biren-surges-china-military-drills-ces-technology-show?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/plus/article/3338493/biren-surges-china-military-drills-ces-technology-show?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 02 Jan 2026 09:00:36 +0000 Reuters Reuters Two senior Democratic lawmakers on Monday asked the ‌US Commerce Department to disclose details ‍and any approvals of continuing licence reviews for potential sales to Chinese firms of Nvidia’s second-most powerful AI chips. US President Donald Trump this month said he would allow sales of Nvidia’s (NVDA.O) H200 chips to China, with the US government collecting a 25 per cent ‍fee, and that the sales would help ‍keep US firms ahead of Chinese chipmakers by cutting demand for Chinese... https://www.scmp.com/news/us/economy-trade-business/article/3337395/lawmakers-want-us-disclose-any-approvals-nvidia-h200-china-licences?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/us/economy-trade-business/article/3337395/lawmakers-want-us-disclose-any-approvals-nvidia-h200-china-licences?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 22 Dec 2025 19:43:50 +0000 Junjie Wang Junjie Wang Subscribers: The Daily Pulse won’t be published December 24-26. We resume publication on Monday, December 29. Merry Christmas! As 2025 comes to a close, SCMP Plus is looking back at the year’s highlights, starting with the 10 most read editions of Daily Pulse, our five-times-a-week briefing about the key China-related issue of the day. #10 US-China talks | Europe win on rare earths | Politburo (July 25) The gist: The US and China were readying for a third round of trade talks in Stockholm to... https://www.scmp.com/plus/article/3335772/10-most-read-daily-pulse-briefings-2025?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/plus/article/3335772/10-most-read-daily-pulse-briefings-2025?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 22 Dec 2025 09:00:10 +0000