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Huawei Technologies, by contrast, is expected to remain relatively resilient. Photo: Shutterstock

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‘More than 600%’ memory price spike rattles China’s phone and broadband makers

China’s tech sector braces for a “memory winter”, with rising chip costs threatening handset output and slowing broadband rollouts.

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Policy to products: Web3 innovation takes centre stage at Consensus Hong Kong

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China’s Lenovo warns of ‘prolonged’ memory crunch, looks to AI for rebound

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Alibaba’s Qwen tops 120 million orders in 6 days amid China’s AI shopping battle

Campaign has sparked a behavioural shift towards AI-powered shopping, which Alibaba says is becoming a more popular lifestyle choice.

12 Feb 2026 - 5:07PM

The number of orders signals growing acceptance of AI-powered shopping. Photo: Getty

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Baidu unveils AI-driven Wikipedia challenger in bid for global users

BaiduWiki, a version of the firm’s Baidu Baike online encyclopaedia, is available in English, Spanish, French, Russian and Japanese.

12 Feb 2026 - 10:51AM

Banking & Finance

Shenzhen-listed Unisplendour abandons plan to raise funds in Hong Kong

The Tsinghua Holdings arm, however, will raise US$800 million via a private share placement on Shenzhen exchange.

12 Feb 2026 - 8:00AM

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China’s Zhipu AI launches new major model GLM-5 in challenge to its rivals

The GLM-5 represents a shift in AI development from ‘vibe coding’ to ‘agentic engineering’ to generate an enhanced performance.

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Zhipu AI, known internationally as Z.ai, says that the new GLM-5 represents a significant shift in AI development. Photo: Shutterstock

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DeepSeek boosts AI model with 10-fold token addition as Zhipu AI unveils GLM-5

The upgrade will allow DeepSeek’s AI model to remember and process more information in a single conversation or task.

11 Feb 2026 - 10:29PMvideocam

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Hong Kong executives trail employees in AI adoption: McKinsey

Just 14 per cent of Hong Kong executives use AI frequently, as companies face strategy, data and training barriers to wider adoption.

11 Feb 2026 - 9:00PM

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Alibaba unveils RynnBrain, an embodied AI model that gives robots a ‘brain’

The model, which was unveiled by Alibaba’s Damo Academy, matched leading embodied models from Google and Nvidia.

11 Feb 2026 - 8:00PM

Alibaba and its fintech affiliate Ant Group are launching their own robotics models in a bid to dominate the next frontier of technology. Photo: AP

Banking & Finance

Capital injection: China backs AI drug makers in self-reliance drive

A wave of government-linked investment is boosting Chinese AI drug makers, underscoring Beijing’s drive to build its own biotech ecosystem.

11 Feb 2026 - 5:14PM

The recent wave of investment in AI drug development aligns with Beijing’s drive for technological self-sufficiency. Photo: Shutterstock

Big Tech

China’s SMIC expects flat revenue as drop in low-end orders offsets AI growth

The contract chipmaker’s profit falls short of analyst estimates amid ‘challenges’ brought on by memory supply crunch.

11 Feb 2026 - 4:28PM

Tech Trends

Consensus 2026 kicks off in Hong Kong amid tighter Beijing oversight

Organised by CoinDesk, the event is an important gathering for digital finance and cryptocurrency professionals.

11 Feb 2026 - 9:00AM

Tech War

ByteDance joins Chinese rivals offering freebies in bid to acquire AI app users

TikTok parent plans to give more than 100,000 tech products as gifts, as well as red packets through lucky draws on the Doubao app.

11 Feb 2026 - 8:00AM

Doubao is an AI app developed by TikTok owner ByteDance. Photo: CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images

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Indonesia telco chief warns of digital colonisation, backs China open-source AI

Indonesian executives stress that localisation and sovereignty are key to AI adoption in the fast-growing Southeast Asian market.

10 Feb 2026 - 11:00PM

From left are Jean Iau, SCMP reporter; Jo Miyake, head of banking, Asia and Middle East, corporate and institutional banking at HSBC; Qian Shihong, chief strategy officer at Huawei Indonesia; Vikram Sinha, president director and CEO at Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison; and Sean Yuan, vice president at Alibaba Cloud International and general manager of South Pacific Region, Alibaba Cloud Intelligence Group. Photo: SCMP

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China’s ByteDance, Alibaba unveil AI image tools to rival Google’s popular Nano Banana

The tech giants’ new image models lower the barrier for individual users or businesses to produce professional-looking images.

10 Feb 2026 - 10:00PM

Tech War

Taiwan pushes back on Washington’s aggressive chip relocation demands

The new reality in geopolitics is the structural transformation from ‘made-in-Taiwan’ to ‘made-by-Taiwan’, according to one analyst.

10 Feb 2026 - 8:00PM

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How Nexperia saga exposes Europe’s waning influence in US-China chip war

The dispute around the Dutch chipmaker shows the erosion of Europe’s geopolitical neutrality in the face of escalating US-China rivalry.

15 Nov 2025 - 11:00AM

Nexperia is caught in a geopolitical tussle between the Netherlands and China. Illustration: Lau Ka-kuen

Tech War

China’s lesson for the US: it takes more than chips to win the AI race

The AI war is increasingly waged among ‘hyperscalers’ – companies with full-stack capabilities across software, hardware and applications.

11 Oct 2025 - 12:05PMvideocam

Tech War

How Huawei and DeepSeek are tending the garden of China’s AI aspirations

Amid growing AI rivalry with the US, the two companies are leading China’s drive to shake off the nation’s dependence on Nvidia processors.

27 Sep 2025 - 11:28AM

Big Tech

Immediate gratification: instant commerce transforms China’s retail market

Instant commerce has developed over a short period of time, as providers expanded their on-demand delivery coverage beyond food.

13 Sep 2025 - 10:36AM

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China’s AI sector is bracing for a monumental week, with a flurry of anticipated model releases. Photo: Shutterstock

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‘More than 600%’ memory price spike rattles China’s phone and broadband makers

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China’s Lenovo warns of ‘prolonged’ memory crunch, looks to AI for rebound

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Alibaba’s Qwen tops 120 million orders in 6 days amid China’s AI shopping battle

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