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A Xiaomi SU7 Ultra electric vehicle is displayed during a media day for the Shanghai Auto Show, April 23, 2025. Photo: Reuters

Big Tech

China’s Xiaomi says returns from AI investments ‘far exceed expectations’

Xiaomi’s smart EV, AI and other new initiatives turned a profit for the first time in the third quarter.

Moore Threads aspires to become ‘leading global player’ in AI chips after IPO

CSRC vows deeper reforms to open China’s capital market and boost tech listings

Tech Trends

Bill Gates’ daughter lands US$30 million for star-backed AI firm

The capital raise will value the start-up at US$180 million and comes just months after Phia completed its first US$8 million funding round.

Melinda French Gates and Phoebe Gates attend the Michael Kors runway show during New York Fashion week on September 14, 2022. Photo: AFP
Melinda French Gates and Phoebe Gates attend the Michael Kors runway show during New York Fashion week on September 14, 2022. Photo: AFP

Big Tech

Meta plans budget cuts as high as 30% to its metaverse efforts

Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse vision has not taken off despite his conviction that people will one day work and play in virtual worlds.

Tech

End of an era: Japan’s Canon shuts China printer plant as local rivals rise

Closure marks a turning point, where Chinese brands have not only caught up with foreign rivals but have also begun to dominate home market.

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Big Tech

Can China fund its AI push? Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt casts doubt

Capital from the government and Big Tech firms is set to make up for any lack of market-driven capital, analysts say.

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Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google, speaks at a forum on November 6, 2025, in Miami, Florida. Photo: Getty Images
Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google, speaks at a forum on November 6, 2025, in Miami, Florida. Photo: Getty Images

Big Tech

China’s top AI chip firms set for bumper IPOs as Nvidia kept out of market

Shanghai-based MetaX set its IPO pricing at 104.66 yuan, according to a company filing on Wednesday.

Policy

HashKey’s IPO seeks US$300 million under shadow of Beijing’s regulatory scrutiny

HashKey is likely to debut on the Hong Kong stock exchange within the next two to three months ‘if it receives adequate investor interest’.

Big Tech

How Huawei could use a 2022 patent to make 2-nm-class chips without key tool

The proposed solution offers a technical pathway to support a 2-nm process using older DUV technology.

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In 2023, Huawei filed 3,091 GPU-related patents – a tenfold increase from 2018. Photo: Costfoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Tech

Guangdong touts Huawei chips and HarmonyOS to outrun the DeepSeek eclipse

China’s richest province highlights Huawei’s Ascend 910C chips and HarmonyOS to prove it still sits at the heart of Chinese innovation.

Guangdong is touting Huawei’s Ascend 910C chips as proof it still sits at the heart of China’s tech self-reliance drive. Photo: Shutterstock
Guangdong is touting Huawei’s Ascend 910C chips as proof it still sits at the heart of China’s tech self-reliance drive. Photo: Shutterstock

Big Tech

TikTok to invest more than US$37 billion in Brazil data centre

China is Brazil’s top trading partner and is seeking to expand economic and political ties across the region amid tensions with the US.

Blockchain

Crypto giant Binance appoints co-founder He Yi as co-CEO

He, who has children together with founder Zhao Changpeng, will share the title with Richard Teng.

United States & Canada

Nvidia CEO meets Trump, says he’s not sure if China would accept H200 chips

He says he and the US president discussed export controls before he met lawmakers on the Senate Banking Committee.

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang speaks briefly to reporters in Washington on Wednesday. Photo: EPA

Tech Trends

Ex-Apple engineer unveils chip to rival Vision Pro for XR headsets, AI glasses

The Jizhi G-X100 features a photon-to-photon latency of just 9 milliseconds, faster than 12 ms for Apple’s Vision Pro.

The Jizhi G-X100 is claimed to be the first Chinese all-in-one mixed reality (MR) chip for spatial computing. Photo: Handout
The Jizhi G-X100 is claimed to be the first Chinese all-in-one mixed reality (MR) chip for spatial computing. Photo: Handout

Tech Trends

Shenzhen robotics start-up Daimon secures China Mobile backing for AI push

Daimon Robotics, co-founded by HKUST professor Wang Yu, received a fresh injection of funds from the mobile operator’s Lianchang Fund.

Big Tech

Huawei’s new app allows AirDrop-style transfers between HarmonyOS and Apple iOS

HarmonyOS 6 is expected to be found in more than 90 Huawei devices after a software update by year end.

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Tech War

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.

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

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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.

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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.

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China Business

BYD founder bets on new tech to win back customers as sales decelerate

In 2022, BYD dethroned Tesla for the first time as the world’s largest EV builder. Photo: Reuters

Policy

China’s regions roll out 5-year plan priorities, with tech topping the list

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An employee produces semiconductor chips for export at a factory in Binzhou, in eastern China’s Shandong province. Photo: AFP

Big Tech

China’s Xiaomi says returns from AI investments ‘far exceed expectations’

A Xiaomi SU7 Ultra electric vehicle is displayed during a media day for the Shanghai Auto Show, April 23, 2025. Photo: Reuters

China Economy

From steel to space: China giant sells first 2 satellites in bold pivot

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