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Huawei Technologies
Huawei Technologies is one of the world's largest smartphone makers and telecommunications equipment providers. The company also sells a range of consumer electronics from smart home devices and appliances to rooftop solar products and electric vehicles. The company's 5G equipment has been banned outright in a number of countries – including the United States, Canada, Australia, Japan, Sweden and the UK.
Customers browse iPhones displayed in an Apple store in the Huangpu district in Shanghai. Photo: AFP
Apple

Apple faces another year of iPhone woes in China as Huawei rises

Fierce competition from Chinese rivals and a broader economic slowdown are contributing to another weak year for Apple, IDC says.

Asean

Opinion | Beyond trade, Asean-GCC-China summit heralds Asia’s cultural renaissance

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Robotics

Self-driving mining trucks offer a glimpse of China’s hi-tech future

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Science

Peking University dropout cracks ‘alien’s language’ that may upend mathematics

Former Huawei engineer Zhou Zhongpeng has been hailed for his research on a radical theory most mathematicians struggle to understand.

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Zhou Zhongpeng, a 28-year-old Peking University (PKU) doctoral dropout turned tech worker, has deciphered one of mathematics’ most cryptic frontiers — Shinichi Mochizuki’s Inter-universal Teichmüller Theory (IUT). Photo: handout
Robotics

China claims breakthrough in robotics software that supports domestic chips

The Intewell operating system is designed to serve as foundational software for embodied intelligent robots.

Robotics

Chinese robotics star Agibot adds JD.com as investor, joining Tencent

After a new funding round, e-commerce giant JD.com holds a 0.75 per cent stake in AgiBot, a high-flying start-up founded by Huawei veterans.

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China-EU relations

China, EU semiconductor firms meet to enhance supply-chain security amid ‘bullying’

More than 40 companies participate in a government-hosted meeting in Beijing to enhance supply-chain resilience, with rare earths discussed.

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A worker handles materials during the semiconductor-production process in China’s Shandong province. Photo: AFP
SCMP Highlights

China’s driverless mining trucks, BYD outshines Tesla in Europe: 7 EV reads

From Europe’s Chinese EV investment dilemma to makers racing to develop flying cars, here are seven EV stories you may have missed.

Xiaomi

Xiaomi refutes claims of using Arm-designed chip for XRing O1

Xiaomi’s first smartphone chip uses Arm’s Cortex cores, leading to speculation that it was using a customised solution from the British firm.

Australia

Opinion | How Australia can use the Trump tariff pause to stabilise ties with China

A clear long-term strategy, reframed political narrative and revitalised people-to-people ties can help mend years of distrust and antagonism.

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Semiconductors

Huawei pushes Ascend AI chip-based ‘Supernode’ architecture to developers

Huawei’s Supernode 384 computing architecture reflects the company’s efforts to overcome tightened US tech restrictions.

Huawei Technologies’ Ascend chip-based, high-performance computing architecture, Supernode 384, is touted as best-suited for training next-generation artificial intelligence models. Photo: Shutterstock
US-China relations

Editorial | Latest US attack on Huawei AI chips only adds to trade tensions

Washington’s ban on anyone, anywhere using the Chinese firm’s Ascend series of processors endangers global commerce and has rightly earned the wrath of Beijing.

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China’s Communist Party

China security tech expos seize opportunities to guard state secrets

In a flourishing industry, country’s top tech companies showcase latest products to compete for military, police contracts.

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US-China relations

Why is China fighting so hard against the US’ new chip ban – and will it work?

Beijing’s strong reaction to new US curbs on Chinese chips stems from a growing confidence that it can outlast Washington in a stand-off, analysts say.

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The US ban on the global use of advanced Chinese microchips specifically references Ascend chips made by tech giant Huawei Technologies. Photo: Getty Images
US-China relations

In further high-level exchange, China and US say channels remain open

Chinese vice-foreign minister Ma Zhaoxu and US counterpart Christopher Landau talk by phone on Thursday, Beijing says.

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Chinese vice-foreign minister Ma Zhaoxu (pictured) and US deputy secretary of state Christopher Landau discussed “important issues of common concern” in a phone call on Thursday, according to Beijing. Photo: AFP
Artificial intelligence

AI hardware start-ups get fresh boost from Shenzhen’s US$1 billion funds

The Shenzhen government has launched funds of 5 billion yuan and 2 billion yuan dedicated to AI and robotics start-ups at the city’s AI expo.

US-China relations

FCC votes to bar some Chinese labs from testing US electronics

About 75 per cent of US devices such as phones, cameras and computers are tested in facilities located in China.

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US-China trade war

Trump changed Biden’s AI chip rules. What now, will it affect China trade talks?

In tech supremacy battle, Trump undoes Biden-era rule, prompting warning that controls over Chinese chips may make their ecosystem stronger.

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The US last week rescinded the AI Diffusion Rule laid out by the Biden administration, two days before the policy was set to enter effect. Photo: AFP
E-commerce

Apple, Huawei, Xiaomi lead China’s top-500 ranking of consumer brands, report finds

The rankings were based on domestic consumers’ online purchase behaviour, according to a Peking University report.

Artificial intelligence

Malaysian government distances itself from AI project involving Huawei

The Malaysian AI project grabbed attention amid intensifying tech rivalry between Beijing and Washington.

China-EU relations

European Parliament names 5 lawmakers targeted in Huawei bribery scandal

Authorities ask lawmaking body to waive the accused’s immunity so that they can be investigated under the two-month probe.

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European Parliament President Roberta Metsola on Wednesday named the lawmakers, who included a fellow Maltese politician, a Bulgarian and three Italians. Photo: AP
SCMP Highlights

China’s growing C919 jet network, AI in Chinese military: SCMP daily highlights

From Beijing vowing to react to a possible Huawei ban to ‘candid’ talks between US and China envoys, here’s a round-up from today’s coverage.

China’s homegrown C919 jetliner is seen during a 2024 airshow. The plans is seeing ever-increasing use across China. Photo: Xinhua
US-China relations

US envoy holds first talks with senior Chinese official as trade tensions linger

New American ambassador David Perdue says he shares Trump’s priorities for ties after meeting Chinese foreign vice-minister.

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Semiconductors

Nvidia CEO blasts US AI chip restrictions on China as a ‘failure’

‘Power is quite cost-effective in China. And there’s plenty of land. And so the ban on H20 is not effective,’ Jensen Huang told reporters at Computex.

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US-China trade war

China vows to use anti-sanctions law if US ban on Huawei chips enforced

As Washington’s new guidelines target the Chinese tech giant, Beijing warns it will closely monitor entities that help enforce the embargo.

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Huawei is at the centre of the China-US tech war, with Washington’s latest sanctions on the tech giant’s chips only the latest in a series of measures targeting the firm in recent years. Photo: Shuttershock
Smartphones

China smartphone exports to US, including iPhones, plunge to lowest since 2011

China’s smartphone exports slid 72 per cent to just under US$700 million in April, as Trump’s tariffs campaign disrupts tech supply chains.

The drop in China’s smartphone exports to the US underscores how Trump’s tariffs are choking off the flow of big-ticket goods between the two countries. Photo: Shutterstock
Semiconductors

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang calls US ban on H20 AI chip ‘deeply painful’

Huang said AI was a ‘full-stack thing’, which meant protecting one layer at the expense of everything else was ‘nonsensical’.

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Semiconductors

Xiaomi’s new 3-nanometre chip takes on rival products from Apple, Qualcomm

The chip marks another milestone for China’s technology self-sufficiency drive amid tightened US export controls on advanced semiconductors.

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