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Huawei
Huawei reveals Kirin chip inside 5G smartphones as firm overcomes US sanctions
Designed by subsidiary HiSilicon, the Kirin 9020 system-on-a-chip powers Huawei’s premium handsets, including the Mate 70 and Pura 80 series.
19 Aug 2025 - 9:00PM
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Artificial intelligence
US underestimating China’s AI progress, OpenAI’s Sam Altman says
19 Aug 2025 - 5:00PM
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US-China tech war
Nvidia plans more powerful chip for China after H20 approval: sources
19 Aug 2025 - 3:32PM
Semiconductors
China’s Nvidia challenger Cambricon to raise US$560 million for AI chip work
Cambricon’s prospects have been boosted by the Chinese government’s determination to use local AI chips in data centres.
18 Aug 2025 - 3:33PM
Cambricon’s booth at the 2021 World Artificial Intelligent Conference. Photo: Handout
Artificial intelligence
China mandates more domestic AI chips for data centres to cut reliance on US
In 2023 and 2024, more than 500 new data centre projects were announced across the country, in places such as Inner Mongolia and Guangdong.
17 Aug 2025 - 2:00PM
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Semiconductors
Bargaining chip: Nvidia’s efforts to please US and China get harder
The world’s most valuable company by market cap finds itself in the centre of trade negotiations between Beijing and Washington.
16 Aug 2025 - 12:00PM
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Unitree’s H1 robot wins 1,500 metre race as China hosts world’s first humanoid games
More than 500 humanoid robots in 280 teams from 16 countries – including Japan, Germany and the US – were expected to compete in 26 sports.
15 Aug 2025 - 8:00PM
Humanoid robots take part in a test 100 metre run ahead of the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing on Thursday. Photo: Reuters
Semiconductors
Applied Materials’ forecast hit by weak Chinese demand, US export curb
China, an essential market for chip companies, was Applied’s largest revenue driver in the July quarter.
15 Aug 2025 - 9:48AM
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Trump admin weighs taking stake in Intel, US report says
The plan stems from a meeting between CEO Lip-Bu Tan and Trump, who had demanded he resign over his Chinese investments.
15 Aug 2025 - 5:54AM
Semiconductors
Beijing E-Town Semiconductor sues Applied Materials over tech infringement
The Chinese chip equipment maker is seeking US$14 million as compensation from its US competitor.
14 Aug 2025 - 8:00PM
Semiconductors
US secretly tracks AI chips to detect smuggling to China, sources say
Sources say the trackers are used in shipments of servers from Dell and Supermicro, which include chips from Nvidia and AMD.
14 Aug 2025 - 10:06AM
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The US has secretly embedded trackers in some AI chip shipments, according to people actively involved in the supply chain. Photo: Reuters
Semiconductors
China’s first-half semiconductor investment shifts to equipment: report
The change reflects the country’s efforts to establish a self-sufficient supply chain, according to research firm CINNO.
12 Aug 2025 - 7:00PM
Huawei
Huawei’s new algorithm could cut China’s reliance on foreign memory chips
Chinese tech firms are leveraging software improvements to compensate for limited access to advanced hardware.
12 Aug 2025 - 5:00PM
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Semiconductors
Trump shifts stance on Intel CEO Tan Lip-bu after White House talks
The US President says Tan has an ‘amazing story’, days after calling for his resignation and accusing him of having conflicts of interest.
12 Aug 2025 - 1:43PM
Huawei
Huawei to unveil tech to cut China’s reliance on HBM chips: report
While China’s top memory chip manufacturers are making progress, they still lag behind US and Korean rivals such as Micron and SK Hynix.
11 Aug 2025 - 6:01PM
A Huawei booth during the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, China, last month. Photo: Reuters
Semiconductors
Voice of doubt in Nvidia’s H20 chips grows louder in China
A media outlet affiliated with state broadcaster CCTV says the chips cannot be trusted because of ‘back-door’ concerns.
11 Aug 2025 - 1:00PM
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Artificial intelligence
OpenAI’s GPT-5 draws mixed reviews in China amid heightened AI competition
GPT-5 is not significantly ahead of Chinese AI models, according to Zhang Linfeng, an AI professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
9 Aug 2025 - 7:06PM
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Semiconductors
Unicorn Z.ai adapts models for Huawei chips to broaden China’s AI ecosystem
Huawei’s Ascend processors used on AI servers and Kirin chips that run inside smartphones are now compatible with Z.ai’s GLM models.
9 Aug 2025 - 5:09PM
Huawei’s tie-up with Z.ai shows a deeper integration of China’s AI ecosystem. Photo: Shutterstock
Semiconductors
US starts issuing licences to Nvidia to export H20 chips to China, official says
It is unclear how many licences may have been issued, which firms Nvidia was permitted to ship to, and the value of the shipments allowed.
9 Aug 2025 - 11:35AM
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China’s SMIC downplays impact of Trump’s proposed 100% tariff on chip imports
China accounted for 84.1 per cent of SMIC’s sales in the second quarter, compared with 12.9 per cent from the Americas.
8 Aug 2025 - 7:00PM
Semiconductors
China’s chipmakers to see small impact from Trump’s 100% tariff on imports: CLSA
In the first half of 2025, China’s chip exports to the US reached US$983.7 million, an 11 per cent year-on-year decline, customs data show.
8 Aug 2025 - 7:00AM
US-China tech war
China wants its brain-computer interface firms to rival Musk’s Neuralink
A new policy document boosts related stocks such as Nanjing Panda Electronics and MicroPort NeuroScientific.
7 Aug 2025 - 9:00PM
A staff member demonstrates a brain-computer interface for post-stroke rehabilitation at the World Robot Conference 2023 in Beijing. Photo: Xinhua
Semiconductors
‘No kill switches and back doors’: Nvidia reasserts security of its AI chips
Embedding weaknesses into chips would ‘undermine global digital infrastructure and fracture trust in US technology’, Nvidia says.
6 Aug 2025 - 7:06PM
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Semiconductors
Huawei to open-source AI chip toolkit to take on Nvidia’s proprietary platform
The move will help accelerate innovation from developers, while making Ascend chips easier to use, Huawei’s Eric Xu says.
5 Aug 2025 - 8:29PM
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Artificial intelligence
Shanghai targets 5 new data centres as China boosts AI capacity
China’s computing power reached 246 exaflops as of June 2024, placing it second only to the US, according to government data.
5 Aug 2025 - 7:00PM
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