https://www.scmp.com/rss/521862/feed Cadence Design Systems: A leading American technology company headquartered in San Jose, California, specialising in Electronic Design Automation (EDA) software. It provides chip design software, hardware, and intellectual property for integrated circuits, systems on chips, and printed circuit boards. Serving diverse markets including automotive, aerospace, and 5G communications, Cadence is a major participant in China’s EDA market, actively restoring product access for clients there. The... en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Coco Feng Coco Feng Enterprises across China’s semiconductor industry recorded hefty profit growth last year, according to their unaudited financial results, driven by the country’s artificial intelligence infrastructure buildout and Beijing’s push for tech self-reliance. Graphics processing unit (GPU) designer Cambricon Technologies on Friday reported a net profit of 2.2 billion yuan (US$316 million) in 2025, its first profitable year, on the back of “the continuous rise in computing power demand within the AI... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3341834/chinas-semiconductor-firms-post-hefty-2025-profits-amid-ai-boom-tech-self-reliance-drive?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3341834/chinas-semiconductor-firms-post-hefty-2025-profits-amid-ai-boom-tech-self-reliance-drive?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 31 Jan 2026 06:00:19 +0000 Wency Chen Wency Chen A subsidiary of SiCarrier – a semiconductor equipment maker backed by the Shenzhen municipal government and works with Huawei Technologies – has released proprietary electronic design automation (EDA) software, bolstering China’s broader push towards technology self-reliance. Qiyunfang, the SiCarrier unit, on Wednesday launched two EDA products – one for schematic capture and another for printed circuit board (PCB) design – at the three-day WeSemiBay Semiconductor Ecosystem Expo 2025 in Shenzhen... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3329100/huawei-supplier-sicarriers-unit-launches-eda-software-lifting-chinas-tech-self-reliance?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3329100/huawei-supplier-sicarriers-unit-launches-eda-software-lifting-chinas-tech-self-reliance?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 15 Oct 2025 08:00:38 +0000 Reuters Reuters The computing chips that power artificial intelligence consume a lot of electricity. On Wednesday, the world’s biggest manufacturer of those chips showed off a new strategy to make them more energy efficient: using AI-powered software to design them. At a conference in Silicon Valley, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), the contract manufacturer that fabricates chips for Nvidia, showed off a range of ways that it was hoping to boost the energy efficiency of AI computing chips by... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3326772/tsmc-unveils-ai-designed-chips-cut-energy-use?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3326772/tsmc-unveils-ai-designed-chips-cut-energy-use?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 25 Sep 2025 04:32:02 +0000 Coco Feng Coco Feng China’s top semiconductor design software developer Empyrean Technology said it has made breakthroughs in design tools for memory chips and panel displays, as part of its long-term goal to “fully replace foreign products” amid the ongoing US-China tech war. For memory chip design, Empyrean added a “clone group” function to the layout editor, which helps “quickly and accurately complete the layout design of identical units” as memory devices contain arrays of storage modules, according to a... https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3322366/tech-war-chinese-eda-leader-empyrean-announces-breakthroughs-chip-design-software?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3322366/tech-war-chinese-eda-leader-empyrean-announces-breakthroughs-chip-design-software?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 19 Aug 2025 10:00:13 +0000 Hadi Azmi Hadi Azmi Intel’s Malaysian-born CEO was thrust into the international spotlight this week as the latest subject of US President Donald Trump’s scatter-gun targeting, calling for him to “resign immediately” over alleged links to Chinese military contractors and surveillance companies. Lip-Bu Tan, 65, born in the riverine town of Muar on Malaysia’s Malacca Strait coast in 1959, grew up in Singapore and studied at Nanyang University, which later merged with the University of Singapore to become the National... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/people/article/3321303/malaysians-singaporeans-brush-trump-attack-intel-ceo?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/people/article/3321303/malaysians-singaporeans-brush-trump-attack-intel-ceo?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 09 Aug 2025 05:21:36 +0000 Reuters Reuters US President Donald Trump on Thursday demanded the immediate resignation of new Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan, calling him “highly conflicted” due to his ties to Chinese firms and raising doubts about plans to turn around the struggling American chip icon. It was reported in April that Tan invested at least US$200 million in hundreds of Chinese advanced manufacturing and chip firms, some of which were linked to the Chinese military. Trump’s comments came after Republican Senator Tom Cotton sent a letter... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3321128/trump-demands-ceo-us-chipmaker-intel-resign-immediately?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3321128/trump-demands-ceo-us-chipmaker-intel-resign-immediately?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 07 Aug 2025 12:40:07 +0000