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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.
China hopes to steal a march on Nvidia by combining relatively mature chips with new computing architectures. Photo: Shutterstock
Artificial intelligence

Huawei-style ‘chip stacking’ seen as a path for China to rival Nvidia’s GPUs

With US curbs biting, experts say near-memory computing and chip stacking could narrow the AI hardware gap with Nvidia.

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‘Historic’: Chinese team makes world’s first 2D industrial chip for military use

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China technology

Opinion | Techno-nationalism is now the critical battlefront in geopolitics

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US-China trade war

How China used rare earths to turn on the US chip tap again

Washington tried to slow Chinese AI progress with export bans, a tactic Beijing later employed to regain some ground.

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Huawei

Huawei, SMIC struggle to advance chips to 5-nm level, MateBook shows: report

Huawei’s newly released MateBook Fold laptop runs on another 7-nm Kirin chip made by SMIC, as the Mate 60 Pro smartphone did two years ago.

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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.

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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
Science

World’s first 1-nanometre RISC-V chip made in China with 2D materials

China’s chip industry has reached a major milestone after scientists developed the world’s most complex semiconductor microprocessor.

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Science

Largest gallium wafer: how China leads on next-gen semiconductor tech

A world-first N-polar GaN wafer created by Chinese scientists could be a game changer for the semiconductor industry.

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Science

Chinese scientists build world’s first AI chip made of carbon

Chinese researchers have developed a chip that it could be a game-changer in modern computing.

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Chinese scientists have used carbon nanotubes (CNTs) to create a new type of microchip which could revolutionise the future of computing. Photo: Shutterstock
Semiconductors

Alibaba’s research arm launches a high-performance RISC-V chip for servers

Damo Academy announced its new server-grade C930, along with plans for future XuanTie chips that include AI acceleration.

China has rushed to develop the open-source RISC-V architecture as it tries to move away from reliance on foreign chip technologies. Photo: Shutterstock
Semiconductors

Taking a RISC: Hong Kong puts weight behind China’s open-source chips bet

Amid a flurry of RISC-V-focused conferences in China, Hong Kong is promoting research in the open-source chip standard.

Science

China cracks GaN chip defect mystery, boosting tech war edge

Minimising semiconductor flaws will expand China’s price gap with US for advanced chips used in electronic warfare, aerospace.

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Science

Top chip designer Sun Nan leaves US and finds ‘room to play’ in China

Tsinghua University highlights professor who has returned to China to train next generation of chip experts and tackle tech problems.

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Professor and chip expert Sun Nan has returned to his alma mater, Tsinghua University in Beijing, after more than a decade at institutions in the US. Photo: Handout
China society

China’s netizens warned that shutting down scientists’ views may hobble progress

Renowned scientists such as physicist He Zuoxiu and Fields Medal winner Yau Shing-Tung have been subjected to online attacks.

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“Fandom culture is worryingly penetrating into discussions of science topics” and could hurt China’s technology sector, editorial in state-affiliated media outlet has warned. Photo: Shutterstock
Semiconductors

China boosts quantum computer production with self-developed chips

Origin Quantum, a research firm added to the US trade blacklist this year, is expanding its superconducting quantum computer production.

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Semiconductors

China claims breakthrough that could clear chip-design hurdle

A Wuhan-based lab has announced a ‘milestone’ that could help China overcome restraints imposed by traditional chip-design technology.

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Chinese memory chip maker YMTC achieves design breakthrough despite US sanctions

Chinese flash memory giant YMTC has made a small leap in its chip design architecture, thanks to closer ties with domestic semiconductor tool providers.

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YMTC has narrowed the gap with advanced products in the market in terms of “bit density”. Photo: Shutterstock Images
US-China tech war

China touts home-grown chip machines amid self-sufficiency drive

Technology ministry claims ‘significant technological breakthroughs’ in deep-ultraviolet lithography by unnamed companies.

Semiconductors

China’s chip making shows progress with new EUV patent despite US sanctions

The patent from Shanghai Micro Electronics Equipment is still under review, but producing EUV tools in China would break a monopoly held by ASML.

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Science

How Chinese engineers helped build the US semiconductor empire: a timeline

US domination of the field of advanced electronics has been propelled in part by many Chinese academics.

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Chinese scientists and engineers have played a vital role in America’s leadership in the field of advanced electronics. Photo: Shutterstock
Science

Could an artificial sapphire insulator be the bedrock of next-gen chip technology?

Researchers in China are tackling the problem of how to create effective current barriers as circuits become more complex and thinner.

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Traditional chips, also known as integrated circuits, feature complex, interconnected structures on a silicon wafer substrate. Photo: Shutterstock
Semiconductors

China could reach chip tool self-sufficiency this summer, industry veteran says

AMEC CEO Gerald Yin said China is on the verge of basic self-sufficiency in chip-making equipment, but is behind 5 to 10 years in quality and reliability.

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Science

Have Chinese scientists cracked code to making ultra-thin semiconductor material?

Research by Chinese team addresses key barrier to reducing the size of traditional silicon-based chips.

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Science

Scientists in China, South Korea tell of ‘crucial stride’ in chip tech

Newly devised strategy could make commercially viable amorphous p-type semiconductors a reality, team in Chengdu and Pohang says in Nature paper.

Complementary metal-oxide semiconductor, or CMOS, technology is widely used to make memory chips and computer processors. Photo: Shutterstock
Science

Chinese scientists create world’s most energy-efficient AI chips

Two record-breaking Chinese-made AI chips have wowed audiences at a prestigious conference.

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Chinese scientists have revealed two groundbreaking AI chips at a leading conference that are highly energy efficient. Photo: Shutterstock
Science

China enters hi-tech imaging race with new ‘core’ electron microscope

Guangzhou-based lab unveils equipment with high hopes of replacing imports, report says.

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Science

Chinese-US team creates first graphene semiconductor in likely computing leap

Chinese state media hails study as momentous step forward for graphene’s use in chip making, sought after by scientists since its discovery in 2004.

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