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Get the latest on China’s push for semiconductor innovation, as the nation strives for self-reliance in this critical technology.
Visitors look at a display at the booth of SemiDrive Technology at the 2023 Shanghai Auto Show. Photo: Getty Images
Electric & new energy vehicles

Exclusive | 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.

US-China relations

Opinion | Trump’s fundamental mistake is in seeing China as America’s problem

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Nvidia

Nvidia to exclude China from forecasts amid US chip export controls

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Artificial intelligence

China’s orchard of AI, chip grads now ripe for the pickin’ as tech trade sours

Many who entered university during Trump’s first trade war with China are ready to become key cogs in China’s hi-tech engine.

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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.

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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.

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A quantum leap: Chinese institute begins photonic chip production

Photonic chips are a critical hardware component for quantum computing and high-speed optical communications.

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The campus of Shanghai JiaoTong University. One of its affiliated institutes has begun production of photonic chips. Photo: AFP
US-China trade war

Trade to tech war: why Trump picked his export control head for next China talks

Beijing and Washington maintained restrictions after Geneva truce – setting stage for tough negotiations on chips, jets and minerals.

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US-China trade war

Trump-Xi call: US to allow Chinese students, mineral trade to resume

US president says he has accepted an invitation to visit China and extended his own offer of a visit to Xi.

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US-China relations

Opinion | US-China trade war goes nuclear with Trump’s chip software ban

Sweeping ban, albeit hard to enforce, threatens to kneecap China’s semiconductor ambitions and endanger its national security.

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Huawei

Huawei claims better AI training method than DeepSeek using own chips

Huawei’s progress in AI model architecture could prove significant, as the company seeks to reduce its reliance on US technologies.

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Huawei researchers say they have improved on an AI training method used by DeepSeek. Photo: EPA-EFE
Huawei

Huawei to launch premium Pura 80 smartphone series next week

The Chinese tech giant has remained silent amid speculation about an upgraded chip for the coming model.

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Asean

Opinion | As Malaysia’s Huawei chip storm shows, sovereign AI is a fraught pursuit

For third states, what is there to differentiate a Chinese AI stack from an US one when both lock in external reliance in the longer term?

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Semiconductors

US chip design software firm Synopsys halts China sales, services

Synopsys, along with Cadence and Siemens’s Mentor Graphics, controls more than 70 per cent of China’s electronic-design-automation market.

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Sassine Ghazi, CEO of semiconductor design software firm Synopsys. Photo: Reuters
Nvidia

Nvidia gives solid forecast, even as China slump mars growth

While the chipmaker is being squeezed out of China, other Trump policy changes may help open up additional markets, such as the Middle East.

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The Nvidia logo is seen at its headquarter campus in Santa Clara, California, on Tuesday. Photo: EPA-EFE
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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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.

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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
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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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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Taiwan

Taiwan’s William Lai commits to security and industry on leadership anniversary

After island’s shock at Trump’s 32 per cent tariff move, leader commits to ‘never sacrificing any single sector’ in talks with US.

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Taiwanese leader William Lai delivers a speech focused on the island’s security while calling for peace and dialogue with Beijing, in Taipei on Tuesday. Photo: CNA
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Nvidia’s Huang teases new Taiwan office, supercomputer plans in Computex speech

In his keynote speech at Computex in Taipei, Jensen Huang said Nvidia secured a lease for a new property and is partnering with local firms, including Foxconn.

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Nvidia co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang delivers a keynote speech for Computex 2025 in Taipei on May 19. Photo: AFP
Robotics

China’s industrial robot output soars, as Unitree and UBTech take lead

Production of industrial robots in April outpaced increases seen in earlier months amid national enthusiasm around the technology.

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Semiconductors

Nvidia’s two-ton AI systems not easily smuggled to China, CEO says

Huang spoke after joining a US delegation to the Middle East led by President Donald Trump, lauding the opening up of trade of Nvidia’s hardware.

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US-China tech war

US curbs on Huawei chips add uncertainty to China’s AI investment

New guidance on US export rules could deter Chinese firms with global ambitions from using Huawei processors, analysts say.

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The US has clarified its export rules to bar the use Huawei’s AI chips anywhere in the world. Photo: EPA-EFE
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US lawmakers introduce bill to stop smuggling of AI chips to China

Some chips have continued to flow to China despite the US seeking to clamp down on their export.

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Data centre servers and components containing the newest AI chips from Nvidia. Photo: Reuters
Technology

Opinion | Beware the hubris of an AI narrative centred on the US and China

It would be a mistake to neglect the agency of states, multinational organisations and powerful firms not fully aligned with either side.

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US-China tech war

Tech war: China’s top chipmakers see shares plunge amid tariff uncertainty

SMIC and Hua Hong both warned of challenges in the second half of 2025, but reported strong revenue growth for the first quarter.

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