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The move signifies the importance of the Chinese EV market and the country’s progress in legacy chipmaking.
At the 21st China International Semiconductor Expo, industry experts weighed in on the challenges and opportunities ahead in domestic chipmaking.
Although production growth slowed to 11.8 per cent in October, semiconductors remain one of China’s fastest-growing industries this year.
Former SMIC chairman Gao Yonggang has resigned from JCET’s board after China Resources became the firm’s largest shareholder.
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Moore Threads has hired Citic Securities to start the ‘tutoring’ process as it seeks to capitalise on enthusiasm in China’s semiconductor industry.
A wider shipment ban on TSMC-made chips could affect a range of mainland businesses from electric vehicles to smartphones.
The GPU and AI-accelerator start-up, founded by an Nvidia veteran, has become a joint-stock company after fresh investments.
TSMC has told mainland Chinese clients it will no longer produce advanced chips for them, according to person briefed on the notice.
SMIC co-CEO Zhao Haijun said the foundry can still benefit from rising demand for less advanced ‘legacy chips’ required for some AI products.
The Shanghai-based chipmaker reported a 34 per cent year-on-year increase in third-quarter revenue to US$2.17 billion.
US-blacklisted chipmaker Biren says team-up with Tencent-backed Infinigence AI led to a 100 per cent improvement in GPU training capacity.
The US-China tech war, focused on chips and AI, is driving a split between the tech ecosystems of the two countries.
The SU7 Ultra has drawn both scepticism and admiration from consumers in the world’s largest EV market.
Huawei’s smartphone sales on the Chinese mainland surpassed those of Apple in August, the first time in 46 months, according to CINNO.
It remains unknown how TSMC dies found their way into Huawei’s Ascend 910B, but analysts say it shows the limits of Washington’s sanctions.
TSMC has denied that it sold chips to Huawei after TechInsights found that Huawei’s Ascend 910B had components from the Taiwanese firm.
A Beijing municipal official heaps praise on Xiaomi’s design for a 3-nanometre processor, but the smartphone maker has yet to comment.
Tesla has Chinese government support to trial some self-driving features, state media reported, but no full self-driving systems have been approved yet.
Initiating a review would help safeguard national security and the interests of Chinese consumers, the group said.
The Beijing-based think tank warned that transferring AI models trained on Nvidia GPUs to domestic solutions involved ‘complex engineering’.
Total computing power in China accounted for 26 per cent of the world’s total as of June, trailing only the US, but CPU usage rates are low.
AI chip users on the mainland have been informally advised to prioritise local alternatives, including those from Huawei, sources say.
Huawei is sending out samples of its Ascend 910C processor for testing as the tech giant races to fill a void left by Nvidia.
Lithography systems promoted by China’s industry ministry show slow advances, as tools remain stuck at the mature-node level.
Chinese flash memory giant YMTC has made a small leap in its chip design architecture, thanks to closer ties with domestic semiconductor tool providers.
New restrictions announced by the Netherlands affect machines used by many semiconductor plants in China.
The patent from Shanghai Micro Electronics Equipment is still under review, but producing EUV tools in China would break a monopoly held by ASML.
The Shanghai-based unicorn, seen as a potential Nvidia competitor on the mainland, has begun its IPO tutoring process.
The Mate XT will officially go on sale on September 20, the same day that Apple kicks off its iPhone 16 retail sales on the mainland.
The Chinese language version of Apple Intelligence will only become available in 2025, with no words on whether it will land on the mainland.
