https://www.scmp.com/rss/517954/feed The latest news, analysis and opinion on Inspur. In-depth analysis, industry insights and expert opinion. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Danielle Popov,Hannah Wang Danielle Popov,Hannah Wang Hong Kong’s ambition to create an artificial intelligence (AI) ecosystem is bearing fruit, with more than 90 per cent of the city’s flagship supercomputing centre at Cyberport now in use, according to officials. The AI Supercomputing Centre, which began operations in December, is a cornerstone of the government’s strategy to foster a vibrant local AI ecosystem. Authorities have earmarked HK$3 billion (US$418.6 million) in subsidies to support AI model development and applications. Cyberport said... https://www.scmp.com/news/china-future-tech/ai/article/3317025/more-90-hong-kongs-ai-supercomputing-capacity-use-cyberport-says?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china-future-tech/ai/article/3317025/more-90-hong-kongs-ai-supercomputing-capacity-use-cyberport-says?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 04 Jul 2025 13:00:10 +0000 Amber Wang Amber Wang For decades, China’s talk of letting the private sector bid for defence orders had mostly been just that: talk. State-owned conglomerates had dominated the sector for decades, but in the middle of 2016, Beijing started to step up its military-civilian fusion strategy, publishing an official list of the sectors where private firms were being encouraged to contribute, such as swarming drone technologies. The plan is a central pillar of China’s ambition to develop a modernised military by 2035 and... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3313893/why-red-tape-bigger-challenge-us-chinas-military-civilian-fusion-plan?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3313893/why-red-tape-bigger-challenge-us-chinas-military-civilian-fusion-plan?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 10 Jun 2025 22:00:10 +0000 Mia Nulimaimaiti Mia Nulimaimaiti To fuel its growing AI sector and computing prowess, China is integrating the development of power-hungry data centres into its national energy strategy. Under a new action plan released on Wednesday, Beijing would coordinate data centre planning with energy infrastructure in areas and regions rich in new energy resources, to meet the surging electricity demands of high-performance computing facilities. “We will focus on national hub nodes and resource-abundant non-hub regions such as Qinghai,... https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3313194/china-hopes-power-ai-boom-green-energy-new-data-centre-strategy?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3313194/china-hopes-power-ai-boom-green-energy-new-data-centre-strategy?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 05 Jun 2025 11:00:11 +0000 Xinmei Shen Xinmei Shen Dozens of Chinese hi-tech manufacturers – from Lenovo Group and Huawei Technologies to Inspur Group – are pushing new “all-in-one” servers that include DeepSeek’s advanced artificial intelligence (AI) models to private and public enterprises across the country, ramping up democratisation of the technology. According to a report on Thursday by state-owned investment bank China International Capital Corp (CICC), about 5 per cent of the country’s AI server demand will be generated from industries... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3301347/chinese-tech-firms-huawei-inspur-push-all-one-deepseek-ai-servers?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3301347/chinese-tech-firms-huawei-inspur-push-all-one-deepseek-ai-servers?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 06 Mar 2025 13:00:09 +0000 China is making steady progress in developing home-grown chips and operating systems to reduce its reliance on foreign technologies amid US sanctions, according to local industry experts. At Tongming Lake IT City, a hi-tech industrial estate in Beijing’s southern economic zone Yizhuang, China’s efforts to wean itself from foreign core technology are in full display in an area larger than 500 football pitches. Since it began development in 2019, Tongming Lake IT City is now the base of several... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3258905/tech-war-china-pushes-forward-self-reliance-campaign-amid-unrelenting-us-sanctions?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3258905/tech-war-china-pushes-forward-self-reliance-campaign-amid-unrelenting-us-sanctions?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 14 Apr 2024 02:00:11 +0000 A nationwide computing power mega project in China will be up and running by next year, the National Data Administration (NDA) has said, as Beijing seeks to boost support for artificial intelligence and other digital technologies in its competition with the United States for hi-tech dominance. The integrated computing power network will bring national computing hubs together into a pool of general-purpose, intelligent and supercomputing power to be used by regional data centres and the “Eastern... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3247292/china-aims-bring-mega-computing-network-online-next-year-data-power-push?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3247292/china-aims-bring-mega-computing-network-online-next-year-data-power-push?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 04 Jan 2024 12:08:58 +0000 Chinese companies are scrambling to secure Nvidia’s chips after the US further restricted the supply of key graphics processing units (GPUs), dealing a fresh blow to China’s artificial intelligence (AI) ambitions. Xiamen Hongxin Electron-Tech Co, a publicly-listed maker of flexible printed circuit boards in Shenzhen, is “stepping up communication with multiple Nvidia distributors in the limited window period as the US government is still escalating its restrictions against computing power... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3239306/chinese-tech-firms-scramble-secure-nvidias-ai-chips-us-ban-cuts-supply?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3239306/chinese-tech-firms-scramble-secure-nvidias-ai-chips-us-ban-cuts-supply?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 26 Oct 2023 13:30:09 +0000 The US has delivered another blow to China’s artificial intelligence (AI) ambitions by banning China-specific Nvidia and Intel graphic processing units (GPUs) and blacklisting two top Chinese GPU start-ups. Under updated tech export controls announced by the US Commerce Department on Tuesday, Nvidia will be unable to export its A800 and H800 chips, which were designed to comply with Washington’s earlier export rules, to Chinese tech companies. The move undercuts China’s frenzied artificial... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3238354/tech-war-us-ban-tailor-made-nvidia-and-intel-chips-hits-beijings-ai-ambitions?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3238354/tech-war-us-ban-tailor-made-nvidia-and-intel-chips-hits-beijings-ai-ambitions?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 18 Oct 2023 10:00:12 +0000 A lot is made of the US-China trade war – some are even calling it a new cold war. Yet Chinese businesses are reshaping the world like never before. Middle Eastern schools are requiring their students to learn Chinese. Singapore is calling on the United States to be more pragmatic with China. And Europeans are loving Chinese new energy technology. Despite the staggering number of Chinese companies operating around the world in nearly every imaginable industry, there is still the perception that... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3235851/despite-us-china-decoupling-talk-chinese-businesses-are-flourishing-america?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3235851/despite-us-china-decoupling-talk-chinese-businesses-are-flourishing-america?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 27 Sep 2023 12:30:12 +0000 China stocks slipped as local Apple suppliers tumbled following Beijing’s ban on iPhones among government staff. Trading in Hong Kong was cancelled after a black rainstorm warning. The CSI 300 Index fell 0.5 per cent to 3,739.99 at the close of Friday trading, culminating in a 1.4 per cent loss for the week. The Shanghai Composite Index declined 0.2 per cent and Shenzhen Composite Index retreated 0.4 per cent. Hong Kong halted the trading of stocks and derivatives after the Observatory issued... https://www.scmp.com/business/markets/article/3233808/chinas-apple-iphone-ban-sends-supplier-stocks-tumbling-csi-300-index-loses-14-week?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/business/markets/article/3233808/chinas-apple-iphone-ban-sends-supplier-stocks-tumbling-csi-300-index-loses-14-week?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 08 Sep 2023 02:42:20 +0000 A subsidiary of Tsinghua Unigroup, the state-backed Chinese chip maker, has been named and scolded by a local regulator for violations of overseas investment rules, signalling Beijing’s increased scrutiny of investment activities. UniIC, a memory chip design company based in Xian, capital of northwestern Shaanxi province, was named and criticised by the provincial Development and Reform Commission for making total investments of US$7.75 million in its Hong Kong-based subsidiary without gaining... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3231051/local-regulator-rebukes-chip-unit-tsinghua-unigroup-violations-overseas-investment-rules?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3231051/local-regulator-rebukes-chip-unit-tsinghua-unigroup-violations-overseas-investment-rules?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 14 Aug 2023 13:30:15 +0000 The head of American semiconductor giant Micron Technology has visited China and met with the Ministry of Commerce, according to a local media report, two months after the Chinese cyberspace regulator banned sales of its products to certain mainland clients. State-controlled Chinese newspaper National Business Daily reported that Micron President and CEO Sanjay Mehrotra met the Beijing official on Wednesday, without giving further information about the discussion. Micron did not respond to a... https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3228368/tech-war-micron-head-meets-beijings-commerce-ministry-after-china-sales-ban-local-report-says?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3228368/tech-war-micron-head-meets-beijings-commerce-ministry-after-china-sales-ban-local-report-says?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 20 Jul 2023 14:30:12 +0000 Inspur Electronic Information Industry Co, the main listed entity of China’s biggest server maker, said its chairman has tendered his resignation, relinquishing several corporate roles at the company, which comes as the US-blacklisted firm is looking to capitalise on the current artificial intelligence (AI) craze on the mainland that has created significant demand for training of AI models. The company said that 57-year-old Wang Endong requested to step down as chairman, board member, and... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3228104/chinas-top-ai-server-maker-inspur-loses-its-chairman-us-blacklisted-firm-seeks-capitalise-chatgpt?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3228104/chinas-top-ai-server-maker-inspur-loses-its-chairman-us-blacklisted-firm-seeks-capitalise-chatgpt?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 18 Jul 2023 10:00:17 +0000 Intel CEO Patrick Gelsinger concluded a low-key trip to China this week, his second to the country in three months, as the US chip giant doubles down on the Chinese market despite an intensifying US-China tech war. Gelsinger’s reported itinerary included a Wednesday visit to the Beijing headquarters of New H3C Group, a leading Chinese IT equipment supplier under Tsinghua Unigroup. H3C said in a statement that Gelsinger met with Li Bin, chairman of Tsinghua Union Group, and H3C CEO Yu Yingtao,... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3227718/intel-ceo-wraps-low-key-china-trip-us-chip-giant-taps-hot-chinese-demand-semiconductors?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3227718/intel-ceo-wraps-low-key-china-trip-us-chip-giant-taps-hot-chinese-demand-semiconductors?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 14 Jul 2023 13:00:13 +0000 China’s imports of integrated circuits (ICs) slumped 18.5 per cent in the first six months of 2023 from a year earlier by volume, according to newly released customs data, at a time when the US and its allies are continuing to restrict China’s access to advanced chips and technologies. China’s imports of integrated circuits dropped to 227.7 billion units in the first six months of 2023, compared with 279.6 billion units in the same period last year, according to data published by the General... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3227596/chinas-chip-imports-slump-first-half-us-sanctions-and-ongoing-tech-war-take-toll-trade?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3227596/chinas-chip-imports-slump-first-half-us-sanctions-and-ongoing-tech-war-take-toll-trade?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 13 Jul 2023 13:30:14 +0000 China’s top artificial intelligence (AI) server maker, which controls about half of the domestic market, warned on Tuesday that its revenue in the first half of 2023 may drop by 30 per cent due to difficulties in obtaining advanced chips, sending its shares sharply lower. Shares in Inspur Electronic Information Industry, the main listed vehicle of Inspur Group, fell 10 per cent in Shenzhen on Wednesday following the profit warning, which lays bare its exposure to US chip restrictions. Inspur... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3227465/tech-war-chinas-top-ai-server-maker-inspur-issues-bleak-profit-warning-us-chip-restrictions-bite?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3227465/tech-war-chinas-top-ai-server-maker-inspur-issues-bleak-profit-warning-us-chip-restrictions-bite?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 12 Jul 2023 14:00:12 +0000 Semiconductor giant Intel Corp has brought its latest processor for artificial intelligence (AI) deep-learning applications to mainland China, where massive demand for US-restricted advanced chips has created a major under-the-counter trade for smuggled graphics processing units (GPUs) from Nvidia Corp. At a press conference in Beijing on Tuesday, Intel executives presented the company’s Gaudi2 processor, a device that is not subject to US export restrictions, as its answer to Nvidia’s premium... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3227447/tech-war-intel-and-nvidia-continue-push-purpose-built-chips-training-ai-systems-china-amid-us-export?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3227447/tech-war-intel-and-nvidia-continue-push-purpose-built-chips-training-ai-systems-china-amid-us-export?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 12 Jul 2023 12:00:15 +0000 US memory chip giant Micron Technology said it plans to invest 4.3 billion yuan (US$602 million) to upgrade its chip packaging plant in Xian, a decision that comes just four weeks after Beijing imposed a partial ban on its products being sold in China. In a statement published on its official WeChat account on Friday, Micron said it would acquire the operations of its outsourcing partner Powertech Technology, and add new buildings to the site to “better meet Chinese customers’ demand”. Micron... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3224291/tech-war-us-chip-maker-micron-invest-us600-million-china-plant-despite-beijings-partial-ban-its?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3224291/tech-war-us-chip-maker-micron-invest-us600-million-china-plant-despite-beijings-partial-ban-its?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 16 Jun 2023 05:30:47 +0000 Global Impact is a weekly curated newsletter featuring a news topic originating in China with a significant macro impact for our newsreaders around the world. Sign up now! Turnabout is fair play. That must be the mood in Beijing right now after the Cyberspace Administration of China concluded its security review into Micron last month, ruling that the last company producing memory chips in the US poses a risk and can no longer sell to key information infrastructure operators, a broad category... https://www.scmp.com/economy/article/3222936/global-impact-washingtons-chip-restrictions-grow-longer-day-why-china-adding-list?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/economy/article/3222936/global-impact-washingtons-chip-restrictions-grow-longer-day-why-china-adding-list?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 05 Jun 2023 06:00:20 +0000 Chinese solid-state drive (SSD) maker Beijing Memblaze Technology Co, a major buyer of memory chips from Micron Technology, retracted its Shanghai public listing in late March, just days before Beijing opened a cybersecurity investigation into the US company. While there is no evidence that directly links the aborted initial public offering of Memblaze to Micron, the Chinese firm’s move to ditch its listing was in proximity – three days – to the US firm being put under investigation by the Cyber... https://www.scmp.com/tech/policy/article/3221978/tech-war-major-micron-client-china-retracts-shanghai-ipo-application-three-days-beijing-opened?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/policy/article/3221978/tech-war-major-micron-client-china-retracts-shanghai-ipo-application-three-days-beijing-opened?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 26 May 2023 14:00:10 +0000 China’s top server makers, including Inspur Group and Lenovo Group, have asked suppliers to suspend shipments of modules containing chips made by US-based Micron Technology, after Beijing imposed a partial ban on the firm’s products, according to a supplier with knowledge of the situation. DRAM chips used in memory modules for servers are a commoditised component that is commonly supplied by Micron and Samsung Electronics, said the source, who declined to be named to protect relationships with... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3221833/tech-war-chinas-top-server-makers-stop-orders-memory-modules-containing-micron-chips-sources-say?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3221833/tech-war-chinas-top-server-makers-stop-orders-memory-modules-containing-micron-chips-sources-say?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 26 May 2023 02:00:09 +0000 China’s de facto ban on the sale of Micron Technology products in the country will likely push clients towards alternative suppliers, including Korean and local players, analysts say. In China’s strongest retaliation yet in the face of mounting US tech sanctions, authorities ruled that products from Micron, the US memory chip giant based in Boise, Idaho, endanger China’s national security and ordered operators of key information infrastructure to cease buying them. The move was described by some... https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3221426/tech-war-china-shows-sword-us-chipmaker-micron-ban-opening-door-local-players-fill-gap?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3221426/tech-war-china-shows-sword-us-chipmaker-micron-ban-opening-door-local-players-fill-gap?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 22 May 2023 13:30:14 +0000 China banned the sale of Micron Technology’s products on Sunday, claiming that the US memory chip company posed a “national security risk”, an assertion the US Commerce Department rebutted as having “no basis in fact”, in an escalation of the technology war between the world’s two largest economies. The Chinese government said on Sunday that products made by Micron posed a national security risk and would be banned for sale to China’s key information infrastructure operators in a move seen as... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3221331/tech-war-china-says-micron-chips-pose-severe-cybersecurity-risks-effectively-banning-sale-its?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3221331/tech-war-china-says-micron-chips-pose-severe-cybersecurity-risks-effectively-banning-sale-its?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 21 May 2023 23:00:20 +0000 Beijing’s cybersecurity probe into Micron Technology, the world’s fourth-largest semiconductor company, could shake up the memory chip supply chain in China, but whether its bigger local rivals will benefit is still unclear, according to analysts and industry experts. Micron’s products are being investigated on the grounds of “safeguarding supply-chain security of critical information infrastructure, cyber and national security”, the Cyber Security Review Office under the Cyberspace... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3216172/beijings-probe-us-chip-firm-micron-could-help-chinese-suppliers-south-korean-rivals?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3216172/beijings-probe-us-chip-firm-micron-could-help-chinese-suppliers-south-korean-rivals?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 07 Apr 2023 02:00:14 +0000 Shenzhen-listed Inspur Electronic Information Industry Co, the main listed vehicle of Chinese server maker Inspur Group that was added to a US trade blacklist last week, held a board meeting this week to change its domicile to an address about two kilometres away from its parent group. In a corporate filing, the company did not give any reason for the change, but the decision was made just days after the US Department of Commerce added Inspur Group, which owns a 36 per cent equity stake in the... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3212796/tech-war-china-listed-unit-server-maker-inspur-us-trade-blacklist-changes-domicile-location-2km?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3212796/tech-war-china-listed-unit-server-maker-inspur-us-trade-blacklist-changes-domicile-location-2km?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 08 Mar 2023 10:30:10 +0000 Nvidia, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and other US tech firms are scrambling to assess whether they must halt sales to units of China’s Inspur Group after its addition to a US export blacklist last week. The US last week added Inspur to its trade blacklist for allegedly acquiring US-origin items in support of the China’s military modernisation efforts. The listing means that companies cannot sell Inspur items like semiconductors, which are made with US tools, unless they apply for and get... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3212750/nvidia-amd-grapple-latest-us-curbs-chinas-inspur?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3212750/nvidia-amd-grapple-latest-us-curbs-chinas-inspur?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 08 Mar 2023 03:20:09 +0000 The US decision to add Inspur Group to a trade blacklist will constrain China’s advancement in artificial intelligence (AI) as the server giant provides over half of AI servers in the domestic market, according to Chinese analysts. Inspur, the world’s second-largest AI server manufacturer, is one of 28 Chinese entities being added to the US Commerce Department’s Entity List along with genetics firm BGI and chip developer Loongson, due to alleged activities contrary to US national security and... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3212281/tech-war-us-decision-add-ai-server-firm-inspur-its-trade-black-list-likely-hinder-chinas-computing?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3212281/tech-war-us-decision-add-ai-server-firm-inspur-its-trade-black-list-likely-hinder-chinas-computing?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 03 Mar 2023 15:00:21 +0000 Hong Kong stocks capped the first winning week in a month after a private report showed services activity in China expanded last month, underpinning bets on economic and corporate earnings recovery. The Hang Seng Index rose 0.7 per cent to 20,567.54 at the close of Friday trading, taking the advance this week to about 3 per cent. The Tech Index climbed 2.1 per cent while the Shanghai Composite Index added 0.5 per cent. Alibaba Group gained 0.5 per cent to HK$88 and Tencent jumped 1.3 per cent to... https://www.scmp.com/business/china-business/article/3212171/hong-kong-stocks-halt-four-week-slide-chinas-economic-recovery-gains-traction-spurs-earnings?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/business/china-business/article/3212171/hong-kong-stocks-halt-four-week-slide-chinas-economic-recovery-gains-traction-spurs-earnings?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 03 Mar 2023 02:38:37 +0000 Washington sanctioned dozens of Chinese companies on Thursday, including for supporting Beijing’s surveillance of ethnic minorities and for facilitating Iran’s energy trade in violation of US restrictions. The US State Department designated two China-based firms – Global Marine Ship Management and Shanghai Xuanrun Shipping – as “Iran sanction evaders” and accused them of “knowingly engaging in a significant transaction for the transport of petrochemical products from Iran”. The companies’... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3212158/us-sanctions-2-chinese-shipping-companies-it-says-aided-iranian-oil-trade?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3212158/us-sanctions-2-chinese-shipping-companies-it-says-aided-iranian-oil-trade?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 02 Mar 2023 22:25:32 +0000 As President Xi Jinping approaches his all-but-assured third term as general secretary of the Communist Party, to be confirmed at this month’s 20th party congress, a number of major national challenges loom in the background, not least of which is the US-China tech war, which has frustrated the government in its pursuit of technological self-reliance. This has been a cornerstone of the government under Xi, who has called for more development of pivotal technologies such as artificial... https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3194689/global-impact-us-china-tech-war-weighs-xi-jinpings-legacy?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3194689/global-impact-us-china-tech-war-weighs-xi-jinpings-legacy?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 03 Oct 2022 12:30:09 +0000 Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology, China’s top surveillance camera maker, said Washington’s recently announced export ban on some Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) chips to the mainland would have “no impact” on its operations. A board secretary of Hikvision made the comment in response to questions on the investor relations management platform of the Shenzhen Stock Exchange on Thursday. In doing so, it has become the second Chinese company that felt compelled to speak out on the US... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3192792/tech-war-chinese-ai-surveillance-gear-maker-hikvision-plays-down?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3192792/tech-war-chinese-ai-surveillance-gear-maker-hikvision-plays-down?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 16 Sep 2022 13:30:14 +0000 ByteDance’s enterprise cloud service, Volcengine, has cut the training period for an image-recognition, artificial intelligence (AI) model from 5 days to 3 days; Alibaba Cloud’s Sinian computing platform has beat a Google-held record by recognising 1.078 million images per second in offline scenarios; and China’s largest server maker Inspur’s NF5488A5 model has been hailed as a world-class product in medical image segmentation, speech recognition and natural language processing. But none of... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3192213/tech-war-why-us-nvidia-chip-ban-direct-threat-beijings-artificial?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3192213/tech-war-why-us-nvidia-chip-ban-direct-threat-beijings-artificial?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 12 Sep 2022 15:00:21 +0000 A Chinese tech company has released a new 7-nanometre graphics processing unit – or GPU – chip that it claims has broken records for computing ability. Biren Technology said in a statement that the peak performance of its BR100 chip, which was launched on Tuesday, was three times better than equivalent products on the market. “This marks a new era, with China’s GPU chips being capable of performing 1 quadrillion floating-point operations per second [petaFLOPS or PFLOPS],” Zhang Wen, chief... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3188578/chinese-tech-firm-launches-gpu-chip-it-claims-marks-new-era?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3188578/chinese-tech-firm-launches-gpu-chip-it-claims-marks-new-era?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 11 Aug 2022 14:30:12 +0000 A leading Chinese information technology company is under investigation for pressuring its staff to work overtime by hanging banners berating people for not staying back past their finishing times. The Chutian Metropolis News reported that Inspur, a Shandong-based IT giant in eastern China, was exposed harassing staff to work extra hours for free after management hung banners promoting the practice in its head office in Jinan last month. One banner carried the slogan: “If you are free, go work... https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/social-welfare/article/3156384/chinas-996-overtime-culture-tech-firm-under?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/social-welfare/article/3156384/chinas-996-overtime-culture-tech-firm-under?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 18 Nov 2021 00:00:22 +0000 Stocks in mainland China retreated from a three-day advance as commodity prices eased and lingering concerns about global inflation soured appetite for risks. Financial markets in Hong Kong were closed for a public holiday. The Shanghai Composite Index fell 0.5 per cent to 3,510.96 at the close of Wednesday trading, after a rally this week that lifted the gauge to the highest level in 11 weeks. The Shenzhen Composite Index climbed 0.2 per cent, while technology-heavy ChiNext rose 0.8 per... https://www.scmp.com/business/markets/article/3133999/china-stocks-drop-11-week-high-commodity-prices-ease-crackdown?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/business/markets/article/3133999/china-stocks-drop-11-week-high-commodity-prices-ease-crackdown?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 19 May 2021 03:19:43 +0000