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Huawei
Huawei, SMIC struggle to advance chips to 5-nm level, MateBook shows: report
Huawei’s newly released MateBook Fold laptop runs on another 7-nm Kirin chip made by SMIC, as the Mate 60 Pro smartphone did two years ago.
24 Jun 2025 - 6:00PM
US-China tech war
How Huawei’s silicon strategy defies US sanctions, advances China’s AI ambitions
23 Jun 2025 - 11:57AM
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Huawei
Huawei opens HarmonyOS 6 to developers, prepares AI features for public launch
21 Jun 2025 - 7:17AM
TikTok
TikTok ‘continues to work with’ Vance on deal as its US fate remains uncertain
TikTok said it was ‘grateful’ for Trump’s deadline extension to September 17, which would allow it to keep serving its 170 million US users.
20 Jun 2025 - 9:30PM
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The TikTok logo is displayed on a smartphone in this illustration taken January 6, 2020. Photo: Reuters
Semiconductors
China’s Empyrean sees opportunities in US chip-design software curbs
Beijing-based company hopes to ascend to the top tier of global EDA providers, but acknowledges considerable gap with US rivals.
20 Jun 2025 - 6:30PM
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How Huawei’s AI chips outperform Nvidia’s in running DeepSeek’s R1 model
Performance of Huawei’s AI data centre architecture, CloudMatrix 384, illustrates the firm’s progress in overcoming US tech control measures.
19 Jun 2025 - 7:00PM
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Blockchain
Tariffs see Chinese bitcoin-mining machine makers eye US production
Top manufacturers Bitmain, Canaan and MicroBT are setting up production in the US to counter tariff and geopolitical risks.
19 Jun 2025 - 1:43PM
Canaan’s bitcoin-mining fleet in West Texas, US. Photo: Handout
TikTok
TikTok’s fate still in limbo as Trump extends deadline to sell its US operations
Analyst assessments reflect the uncertainty on whether Trump can – or will – keep extending the TikTok ban.
18 Jun 2025 - 9:00PM
DeepSeek
DeepSeek’s updated R1 AI model matches Google, Anthropic in coding benchmark
The updated reasoning model, released in May, performed well against leading US models in the real-time WebDev Arena tests.
18 Jun 2025 - 6:03PM
US-China tech war
US pushes Vietnam to decouple from Chinese tech, sources say
Vietnam has been asked ‘to reduce its dependency on Chinese hi-tech’, say one of the people familiar with the discussions.
17 Jun 2025 - 10:18AM
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Electric & new energy vehicles
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SemiDrive to supply cockpit chips in European EVs as Chinese firms go global
‘Striving to be a top global chip supplier, we need to expand from the China market to the global market,’ general manager Eugene Wang says.
17 Jun 2025 - 7:30AM
Visitors look at a display at the booth of SemiDrive Technology at the 2023 Shanghai Auto Show. Photo: Getty Images
US-China tech war
Taiwan blacklists leading chipmakers Huawei, SMIC amid US-China tech rivalry
The move will further tighten existing loopholes and curb collaboration between Chinese firms on the entity list and Taiwanese tech leaders.
15 Jun 2025 - 2:59PM
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E-commerce
Temu resumes direct sales to US after Washington-Beijing trade truce
Some items that had been removed from Temu’s US marketplace last month have been made available for sale in recent days.
13 Jun 2025 - 9:00PM
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US-China tech war
Huawei’s AI chip output limited to 200,000 in 2025, US commerce official says
That number falls short of Nvidia’s over 1 million China-specific H20 chips produced in the last nine months of 2024, analysts estimate.
13 Jun 2025 - 7:00PM
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Apple
Apple is shipping nearly all of its India-made iPhones to the US
From March to May, Foxconn exported iPhones worth US$3.2 billion from India, with an average of 97 per cent shipped to the US.
13 Jun 2025 - 12:09PM
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A man checks an iPhone 16 Pro as the new iPhone 16 series smartphones go on sale at an Apple store in Beijing on September 20, 2024. Photo: Reuters
US-China tech war
Nvidia CEO says Huawei has everyone ‘covered’ if US chip ban on China stays
Still, Jensen Huang says his company’s technology remains a generation ahead of those developed by Chinese rivals.
12 Jun 2025 - 9:44PM
Huawei
Chinese tech champions boost Europe ties amid US tensions
At VivaTech, the Chinese ambassador to France says Beijing is ready to collaborate with Paris to enhance scientific and technological exchanges.
16 Jun 2025 - 11:45AM
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Semiconductors
Nvidia bets on European AI push amid shrinking China revenue
The chip designer pledged to build 20 AI factories on the continent, including a German facility in the works to be equipped with 10,000 GPUs.
12 Jun 2025 - 4:00PM
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang interacts with a small robot during his VivaTech presentation in Paris on June 11. Photo: Reuters
Blockchain
With early stablecoin law, Hong Kong looks to keep edge as finance hub
Hong Kong is looking to ‘secure a leading role in global payment systems’, one analyst says, as law comes ahead of a similar US stablecoin bill.
12 Jun 2025 - 9:00AM
Semiconductors
Huawei founder sheds light on China’s strategy to overcome US curbs
Ren Zhengfei’s comments underscore Huawei’s commitment to achieving chip self-sufficiency, with compound semiconductors playing a key role.
11 Jun 2025 - 9:00PM
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DJI
DJI launches US$10,000 enterprise drone that can avoid power lines at night
The new Matrice 400 offers a 59-minute flight time, a payload capacity of up to 6kg and a powerful obstacle-sensing system.
11 Jun 2025 - 7:00PM
Artificial intelligence
iFlytek says using local chips in AI models extends development time by 3 months
Liu’s comments show how some Chinese tech companies are determined to improve their AI capabilities without access to Nvidia chips.
11 Jun 2025 - 6:00PM
Huawei’s Ascend 910 chip is displayed during the 2023 PT Expo China show. Photo: Shutterstock Images
Made in China 2025
GoPro rival Insta360 eyes global expansion after strong Shanghai IPO
After the Star Market’s biggest debut in a year and a half, executive Max Richter touted the company’s commitment to global markets amid trade tensions.
11 Jun 2025 - 3:32PM
Semiconductors
Chinese academy launches automated system to speed up chip design
The system, developed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, uses AI for semiconductor design, dispensing with the need for human developers.
10 Jun 2025 - 10:00PM
Apple
Apple’s most sweeping software redesign disappoints mainland Chinese consumers
The hashtag ‘iOS26 Ugly’ was microblogging app Weibo’s top-trending topic on Tuesday, as thousands of netizens expressed their discontent.
10 Jun 2025 - 9:00PM
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