https://www.scmp.com/rss/524470/feed The latest news and updates on Ren Zhengfei, the visionary founder and CEO of Huawei Technologies, a global leader in telecommunications equipment and smartphones. A former engineer in the Chinese People’s Liberation Army, he established Huawei in 1987, steering its remarkable growth to become a multinational technology giant. His leadership, often described as disciplined and paternalistic, has fostered a culture of dedication and innovation, with a strong emphasis on research and development.... en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Iris Deng Iris Deng Meng Wanzhou, chief financial officer of Huawei Technologies and daughter of its founder, hailed the company’s breakthroughs in 2025 in a New Year message that vowed to take advantage of “strategic opportunities” amid a “surge of intelligence in all aspects of life and work”. The US-sanctioned telecommunications gear maker, which plays a central role in China’s push for tech self-sufficiency, “built a solid foundation for computing” in 2025 with the expansion of its Kunpeng and Ascend chip... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3338109/huawei-hails-ascend-ai-ecosystem-new-year-message-atlas-900-supernode-rolls-out?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3338109/huawei-hails-ascend-ai-ecosystem-new-year-message-atlas-900-supernode-rolls-out?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 30 Dec 2025 05:00:46 +0000 Ben Jiang,Vincent Chow Ben Jiang,Vincent Chow US start-up OpenAI’s launch of ChatGPT on November 30, three years ago, sent China’s technology industry scrambling to get up to speed on the latest artificial intelligence developments. Chinese government authorities sent urgent requests to various experts, including professors from Tsinghua University, to provide briefings on the implications of generative AI technology, according to people with knowledge of the matter. China’s Big Tech firms and ambitious start-ups rushed to roll out their... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3336236/sea-change-china-narrows-ai-gap-us-three-years-after-initial-shock-chatgpt?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3336236/sea-change-china-narrows-ai-gap-us-three-years-after-initial-shock-chatgpt?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 13 Dec 2025 15:00:09 +0000 Iris Deng Iris Deng Huawei Technologies is doubling down on foundation models with a newly formed unit, heating up the race for dominance among Chinese tech giants in the artificial intelligence sector. The AI foundation model unit was established under Huawei’s 2012 Laboratories, the company’s strategic research and development arm that covered domains ranging from wireless technology to AI, according to a report by Chinese media outlet China Star Markets this week. The department was actively recruiting AI... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3336239/huawei-bolsters-ai-ambitions-dedicated-foundation-model-unit-recruits-global-talent?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3336239/huawei-bolsters-ai-ambitions-dedicated-foundation-model-unit-recruits-global-talent?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 12 Dec 2025 10:00:32 +0000 Iris Deng Iris Deng The United States and China are pursuing artificial intelligence in “different directions”, and the divergence is being reflected in the strategies that the governments and companies are adopting, according to the founder of one of the world’s largest technology investors. The US was focusing on supercomputing power and large models in the lofty pursuit of artificial general intelligence (AGI) and artificial superintelligence (ASI), while China was adopting a more practical approach, using AI to... https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3335341/different-strokes-huaweis-founder-makes-subtle-dig-lofty-pursuits-ai-us?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/3335341/different-strokes-huaweis-founder-makes-subtle-dig-lofty-pursuits-ai-us?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 05 Dec 2025 13:00:11 +0000 Wency Chen Wency Chen Chinese technology giant Huawei Technologies is expected to unveil a new artificial intelligence infrastructure technology on Friday that could double the utilisation efficiency of graphic processing units (GPUs), according to the state-owned Shanghai Securities News. The report said the technology would be able to lift the utilisation rate of AI chips – including GPUs and neural processing units (NPUs) – to 70 per cent, up from the current 30 to 40 per cent, in another major advance in “using... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3333058/tech-war-huawei-bets-ai-tech-squeeze-more-performance-gpus?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3333058/tech-war-huawei-bets-ai-tech-squeeze-more-performance-gpus?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 17 Nov 2025 06:00:15 +0000 Brian Rhoads,Raymond Ma Brian Rhoads,Raymond Ma Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said China is “nanoseconds behind” the United States in developing artificial intelligence processors as the chip giant seeks greater access to the Chinese market. “This is a vibrant entrepreneurial, hi-tech, modern industry,” Huang said on BG2, a podcast hosted by tech investors Brad Gerstner and Bill Gurley. “We’ve got to compete.” Huang also said it was in the “best interest of China” for foreign companies to invest and compete in the country, pushing back against... https://www.scmp.com/plus/article/3327227/nvidias-huang-says-china-nanoseconds-behind-ai-chips?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/plus/article/3327227/nvidias-huang-says-china-nanoseconds-behind-ai-chips?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 29 Sep 2025 09:00:07 +0000 Ann Cao,Wency Chen Ann Cao,Wency Chen When Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek unveiled an updated foundational model late in August, investors in Nvidia were stunned. Shares of the US chip giant slid, as market watchers grappled with news that the two-year-old start-up, which has developed models rivalling the world’s best, was shifting towards supporting domestically produced chips. Adding to their concerns, DeepSeek was not alone in its endeavour to empower China’s AI ambitions without relying on US technology. Last... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3327025/home-grown-heroes-how-huawei-and-deepseek-are-helping-china-break-reliance-us-chips?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3327025/home-grown-heroes-how-huawei-and-deepseek-are-helping-china-break-reliance-us-chips?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 27 Sep 2025 02:00:09 +0000 Coco Feng Coco Feng Huawei Technologies founder and CEO Ren Zhengfei this week met Yang Qing, chairman of state-owned Dongfeng Motor, in Shenzhen with the goal of deepening collaboration in China’s electric vehicle (EV) sector. The meeting on Monday between Ren, 80, and Yang involved an exchange of “views on industry competition dynamics and corporate mechanism innovation”, according to a statement released on Tuesday by Dongfeng – founded in 1969 and based in Wuhan, the capital of central Hubei province. During... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3326556/huaweis-ren-zhengfei-dongfeng-motors-yang-qing-discuss-deeper-collaboration-evs?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3326556/huaweis-ren-zhengfei-dongfeng-motors-yang-qing-discuss-deeper-collaboration-evs?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 23 Sep 2025 12:00:11 +0000 Ann Cao Ann Cao Huawei Technologies has expressed optimism over the development of artificial general intelligence (AGI) over the next decade, while anticipating that global computing capacity will increase a staggering 100,000-fold by 2035. “AGI will be the largest driver of transformation,” the Shenzhen-based company said in a forecast report published on Tuesday. “Integrating artificial intelligence with the physical world is essential to achieving AGI, which could lead to a technological singularity.” The... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3325865/ai-human-level-abilities-drive-tech-progress-next-decade-huawei-says?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3325865/ai-human-level-abilities-drive-tech-progress-next-decade-huawei-says?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 17 Sep 2025 10:00:13 +0000 Ann Cao,Wency Chen Ann Cao,Wency Chen Chinese chipmakers are trying to catch up with Nvidia in the market for artificial intelligence (AI) processors, spurred by government efforts to achieve technological self-sufficiency and US trade embargoes that prevent China from buying advanced chips. Telecommunications giant Huawei Technologies, Cambricon Technologies and Enflame Technology are among companies at the forefront of the Chinese chip push. Local internet giants Baidu, Tencent and South China Morning Post owner Alibaba have also... https://www.scmp.com/plus/article/3323164/china-chipmakers-seek-loosen-nvidias-ai-stranglehold?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/plus/article/3323164/china-chipmakers-seek-loosen-nvidias-ai-stranglehold?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 26 Aug 2025 07:40:38 +0000 Zhou Xin Zhou Xin DeepSeek, the Hangzhou-based artificial intelligence start-up, may have made another breakthrough that could disrupt the way AI models are trained in China. Its innovative data format, UE8M0 FP8, could pave the way for home-grown graphics processing units (GPUs) to be deployed in training powerful models even though local GPUs are not as powerful as Nvidia’s. China’s stock market investors were excited about the breakthrough, pouring money into local GPU developers such as Cambricon... https://www.scmp.com/opinion/china-opinion/article/3323051/deepseeks-data-format-innovation-local-ai-chips-fans-fresh-hopes-more-disruption?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/opinion/china-opinion/article/3323051/deepseeks-data-format-innovation-local-ai-chips-fans-fresh-hopes-more-disruption?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 25 Aug 2025 23:00:11 +0000 Wency Chen,Ann Cao Wency Chen,Ann Cao On his visit to Beijing in July, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang received a rock-star welcome as he announced to Chinese state media that Washington had assured the company that export licences for its H20 chips would soon be granted. Warmly greeted by Chinese entrepreneurs and government officials, Huang – who wore a Tang suit and addressed the audience with his rusty Mandarin at the state-backed China International Supply Chain Expo – earned national fame overnight. Just two weeks after Huang... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3322047/nvidias-efforts-please-both-us-and-china-get-harder-h20-becomes-bargaining-chip?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3322047/nvidias-efforts-please-both-us-and-china-get-harder-h20-becomes-bargaining-chip?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 16 Aug 2025 04:00:20 +0000 Danielle Popov Danielle Popov Huawei Technologies founder and CEO Ren Zhengfei, who has been the face of China’s resilience to US tech restrictions, has provided some guidance to the head of Changan Automobile, as the state-owned carmaker pushes its go-global strategy and eyes a potential merger with Hong Kong-listed Dongfeng Motor Group. According to his post on Chinese microblogging site Weibo, Changan chairman Zhu Huarong said he visited Ren, 80, at Huawei’s headquarters in Shenzhen last Friday to discuss the state of... https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3321479/huaweis-ren-zhengfei-changan-automobiles-zhu-huarong-discuss-state-china-ev-sector?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3321479/huaweis-ren-zhengfei-changan-automobiles-zhu-huarong-discuss-state-china-ev-sector?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 11 Aug 2025 13:00:14 +0000 Brian Rhoads,Raymond Ma Brian Rhoads,Raymond Ma Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang lauded China’s booming artificial intelligence (AI) sector, a day after the chipmaker said that it will soon be able to resume shipments of H20 chips to the country. China’s open-source AI is a “catalyst for global progress,” Huang said on Wednesday in Beijing during the opening ceremony for the 3rd China International Supply Chain Expo. It is “giving every country and industry a chance to join the AI revolution”, he said. Huang’s third trip to China this year comes after... https://www.scmp.com/plus/article/3318411/nvidia-chips-china-mark-tactical-shift-us-tech-war?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/plus/article/3318411/nvidia-chips-china-mark-tactical-shift-us-tech-war?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 16 Jul 2025 09:00:10 +0000 Coco Feng Coco Feng Wuhan University has become the latest institution to join China’s push for self-reliance in semiconductors by establishing the School of Integrated Circuits, led by a scientist educated at Stanford University. Liu Sheng, a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences who earned a doctorate in mechanical engineering from Stanford in 1992, has been appointed as the inaugural dean of the new school. At an opening ceremony on Thursday, he said the school’s establishment followed “an in-depth... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3317862/tech-war-stanford-educated-expert-leads-chinas-new-semiconductor-school-ymtc-support?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3317862/tech-war-stanford-educated-expert-leads-chinas-new-semiconductor-school-ymtc-support?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 11 Jul 2025 11:00:09 +0000 Xinmei Shen Xinmei Shen China still lags behind the US in artificial intelligence (AI) chips, but the country is rapidly catching up in algorithms amid an intense technological race between the world’s two largest economies, according to renowned computer scientist Harry Shum Heung-yeung. AI competition encompassed three key aspects: chips, algorithms, and applications – and the US was “clearly” still “far ahead” in chip technology, said Shum, council chairman at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, at... https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3316206/china-catching-us-algorithms-despite-chip-gap-says-former-microsoft-ai-head?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-war/article/3316206/china-catching-us-algorithms-despite-chip-gap-says-former-microsoft-ai-head?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 28 Jun 2025 23:00:13 +0000