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Huawei is offering Ascend 910B AI chip volumes in the low thousands to potential customers in the Middle East and Southeast Asia. Photo: Shutterstock

Huawei eyes export of AI chips to Middle East, Southeast Asia to rival Nvidia

The Chinese firm has reached out to potential clients in the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Thailand about buying its Ascend 910B processors.

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US-China tech war

Chinese lidar maker Hesai loses lawsuit against US government for blacklisting

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Stanford-educated expert leads new semiconductor school in China

11 Jul 2025 - 7:00PM

Huawei’s Pura 80 roll-out in Dubai is latest move in global smartphone push

The Pura 80 series, which debuted in mainland China last month, marks Huawei’s latest expansion into major overseas markets.

11 Jul 2025 - 5:02PM

Huawei chose Dubai to launch its Pura 80 series on the global market. Photo: Ann Cao

Artificial intelligence

Global AI conference in Shanghai to showcase China’s prowess, vision

High-level meeting on AI governance to be held in tandem with the three-day World Artificial Intelligence Conference, starting on July 26.

10 Jul 2025 - 8:00PM

Artificial intelligence

Nvidia CEO Huang to meet Chinese officials amid US tech tensions

Huang plans to meet top officials, including the commerce minister, while attending the International Supply Chain Expo in Beijing next week.

10 Jul 2025 - 5:54PMvideocam

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China-EU relations

EU urges China for rare earth access amid US tariffs, growing supply worries

European officials demand action to reduce dependency – but analysts warn more time needed to implement strategy.

10 Jul 2025 - 5:31PM

EU and Chinese flags on March 20, 2025. Illustration: Reuters/Dado Ruvic

Artificial intelligence

Chinese start-up Manus AI relocates to Singapore amid US chip curbs

Manus AI has begun recruiting in the city state, offering positions such as data analyst and AI agent engineer.

11 Jul 2025 - 10:45AM

‘EV moment’ for humanoid robots may be 5 years away, UBS says

Global humanoid robot population will surpass 300 million by 2025, with annual demand reaching 86 million units, Swiss bank says.

9 Jul 2025 - 6:00PM

Artificial intelligence

Meta’s AI lab scoops up two more Chinese experts from Apple, OpenAI

The new recruits include Pang Ruoming, manager of Apple’s foundations model team, and OpenAI researcher Li Yuanzhi.

8 Jul 2025 - 6:30PM

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks at the Meta Connect event at the company’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California, in 2023. Photo: Reuters

Eric Trump to headline Bitcoin Asia 2025 conference in Hong Kong

The August event comes as the race for crypto supremacy has intensified, with both Hong Kong and the US moving to legalise stablecoins.

8 Jul 2025 - 12:30PM

Eric Trump, the second eldest son of US President Donald Trump, is set to attend next month’s Bitcoin Asia conference in Hong Kong. Photo: Reuters

Hong Kong stock market

Hong Kong stocks snap 3-day decline on optimism about US trade deals

US President Donald Trump tells Japan and South Korea that new tariffs will take effect on August 1.

8 Jul 2025 - 4:30PM

US-China trade war

‘Historic opportunity’: why China is betting on a poor province in trade war

A few years ago, it beat extreme poverty – now, it’s a frontline province in Beijing’s economic shift.

8 Jul 2025 - 6:21AM

Huawei defends AI models as home-grown after whistle-blowers raise red flags

An account on the open-source community GitHub alleged that the Huawei model had ‘extraordinary correlation’ with Alibaba’s Qwen-2.5 14B.

7 Jul 2025 - 6:00PM

The launch event of Huawei’s Pangu Mine AI Model for the mining industry in Jinan, Shandong province, China, July 18, 2023. Photo: EPA-EFE

US curbs, Nvidia delays likely to drive Samsung’s profit down 39%

The world’s biggest maker of memory chips is projected to report its lowest income in six quarters.

7 Jul 2025 - 5:05PMvideocam

A Samsung flag flutters outside the company’s building in Seoul, South Korea. Photo: AFP

Chip design software firms climb as US lifts curbs on China exports

The export resumption means Synopsys and Cadence will only lose one month of revenue in the current quarter.

4 Jul 2025 - 9:54AM

Artificial intelligence

Meta’s AI lab is stacked with Chinese talent, drawing attention back home

Seven of 11 publicly listed recruits at the new Meta Superintelligence Labs graduated from prestigious Chinese universities before moving to US.

4 Jul 2025 - 7:00AM

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US-China tech war

Tech war: US lifts export control of chip design software to China

Siemens, Synopsys and Cadence – three of the world’s largest EDA software developers – are set to resume sales to China.

3 Jul 2025 - 5:45PM

The US has lifted recently imposed export restrictions on certain chip design software to China. Photo: DigiTimes

TikTok Shop cuts more US jobs as Trump’s ban deadline looms

The team has also been replacing US-hired staff near Seattle with managers connected to China.

3 Jul 2025 - 10:45AM

Mainland China chipmaking capacity to outstrip Taiwan by 2030: report

Mainland China is expected to account for 30 per cent of global foundry capacity by 2030, market research firm Yole Group projects.

2 Jul 2025 - 9:00PM

Huawei to open-source self-developed programming language Cangjie

The language supports general programming for apps on HarmonyOS Next, Huawei’s self-developed platform.

2 Jul 2025 - 5:07PM

TikTok Shop launches in Japan as app faces uncertainty in US

The popular short-video app is seeking to diversify its global footprint while reducing its reliance on the US market.

1 Jul 2025 - 7:00PM

TikTok Shop has officially launched in Japan. Photo: Getty Images/TNS

Artificial intelligence

Nvidia taps 2 young Chinese AI experts to strengthen research

Zhu Banghua and Jiao Jiantao share photos of themselves with Jensen Huang, the founder and CEO of Nvidia.

29 Jun 2025 - 5:18PM

Artificial intelligence

China catching up fast with US in algorithms: ex-Microsoft AI head

While the US is still far ahead in AI chip technology, China is following very closely in algorithms, says computer scientist Harry Shum.

29 Jun 2025 - 7:00AM

Business of climate change

Cloudy with a chance of bankruptcy: US tariffs hurt China’s solar firms

One-third of China’s 121 listed solar producers are in the red; more than 50 along the supply chain have filed for bankruptcy this year.

28 Jun 2025 - 11:00AMvideocam

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Huawei is offering Ascend 910B AI chip volumes in the low thousands to potential customers in the Middle East and Southeast Asia. Photo: Shutterstock

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Chinese lidar maker Hesai loses lawsuit against US government for blacklisting

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Stanford-educated expert leads new semiconductor school in China

11 Jul 2025 - 7:00PM

Wuhan University appoints renowned semiconductor expert Liu Sheng as the head of its new School of Integrated Circuits. Photo: Handout

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