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Latest news, features and opinion on China’s technology industry, including AI, the US-China tech war, 5G, smartphone makers and apps, and issues surrounding China’s Great Firewall.
last updated:
9 September, 2024
People check out Huawei’s Mate 70 smartphones at a store in Beijing, November 26, 2024. Photo: EPA-EFE
Semiconductors

Huawei’s new Mate 70 smartphone chip is ‘not a major redesign’, report finds

The findings contradict enthusiasm on Chinese social media, where users claimed the new Kirin 9020 had a performance boost of 30 per cent.

Video gaming

Black Myth: Wukong inspires Chinese video game studios to go overseas

China’s Communist Party

Police in China take hi-tech rolling robot out on patrol

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Artificial intelligence

China’s generative AI market sees fewer new entrants with 64 new approvals

The November AI model approvals is the smallest of the three batches released this year, as the market grows more saturated.

The pace of new generative AI model approvals from Beijing has been slowing, suggesting the market is becoming saturated. Photo: Shutterstock
Tencent

Tencent’s low-profile CEO praises China’s economic policy, stimulus

The entrepreneur wrote in People’s Daily that the government has shown ‘strong determination’ in pushing for economic recovery.

Electric & new energy vehicles

Chinese EV maker Jiyue to cut operations in bid to stay in brutal race

Some projects will be scrapped and some business units merged in an ‘all-out’ effort towards ‘rebirth’, CEO says.

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China must innovate in chip design or fall behind the global market, expert says

China Semiconductor Industry Association’s Wei Shaojun sees new design architecture and microsystem integration as pathways to progress.

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Innovation in China’s integrated circuit-design sector have been hindered by tightened US tech restrictions. Photo: Shutterstock
US-China relations

US House advances defence bill that bans Chinese goods from tech to garlic

The US$884 billion measure, which is considered ‘must-pass’ legislation, now moves to the US Senate.

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US-China relations

US hits China with new tariffs on solar wafers, tungsten products

Steep duties taking effect January 1 meant to guard against Beijing’s rising clean-energy prowess.

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Science

China’s hypersonic jumbo jet prototype hits Mach 6 in Gobi Desert test flight

Chinese institute reveals test footage of aircraft that could help turn dream of ‘one-hour global travel’ into reality.

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Video footage released this week shows the prototype’s 2021 test flight, which had been kept under wraps for years because of the sensitivity of the project. Photo: Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Semiconductors

China’s semiconductor firms cash in chips as export boom bucks overall trend

Despite a bevy of US restrictions on China’s semiconductor trade, chip shipments remain high even as overall exports miss expectations.

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China’s exports of semiconductors have bucked overall trends and made sizeable gains in 2024. Photo: VCG
US-China tech war

Chinese surveillance firm Uniview calls on US to reconsider its trade sanction

Uniview was added to Washington’s trade blacklist for enabling certain ‘human rights violations’, according to the US Commerce Department.

Banking & finance

China pushes M&A to build 10 hi-tech firms to be globally competitive by 2027

The industries in question include integrated circuits, biopharmaceuticals and new materials.

Electric & new energy vehicles

China’s CATL, Stellantis to build US$4.3 billion EV battery plant in Spain

Joint venture received support from the Spanish government, which abstained in the EU’s October vote to impose extra tariffs on Chinese-made EVs.

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An aerial view of CATL headquarters in Ningde in eastern Fujian province on November 15, 2024. Photo: AFP
China economy

Editorial | Politburo prepared to do all that it takes in the name of growth

Beijing leaders make it clear that ‘more active’ policies are on the way through the use of fiscal and monetary measures.

China’s decision-making Politburo has announced more measures are on the way to stimulate domestic demand. Photo: Xinhua
Semiconductors

Chip war: China’s semiconductor imports expand ahead of new US restrictions

From January to November, China imported a total of 501.47 billion integrated circuits, up 14.8 per cent from the same period last year.

China’s economic stimulus

China to invest over 4 trillion yuan in ‘hidden infrastructure’ as economy slows

Urban infrastructure projects in the coming years will be worth trillions of yuan and provide a means of boosting jobs and stabilising China’s economy.

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US-China relations

US must engage China’s ‘wickedly competitive’ hi-tech firms: trade group leader

Mainland companies striving to overcome slower domestic growth and oversupply while multinationals need R&D talent to stay globally viable.

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A silicon wafer during the photolithography process inside a computer chip production machine. Semiconductor manufacturing has been targeted by both the US and China with trade restrictions. Photo: Shutterstock
Semiconductors

Nvidia faces US$1 billion fine if China probe finds violation of antitrust laws

The investigation into Nvidia’s previously-approved Mellanox acquisition marks the first time that China’s market regulator has opened the books on a closed deal.

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Chinese chip tool maker hands reins to state-owned firm after US sanctions

Empyrean Technology is handing control of its board to its largest shareholder, a state-owned enterprise, after Washington blacklisted the software maker.

Artificial intelligence

Chinese AI start-up Baichuan loses co-founder in latest industry shake-up

The departure of Hong Tao, who was pivotal to early monetisation efforts, comes after high-level departures at rival start-ups such as 01.AI and Moonshot AI.

China’s artificial intelligence start-ups have gone through some high-level changes this year as the domestic market deals with saturation and increased competition. Photo: Reuters
Xiaomi

Xiaomi unveils YU7 electric SUV to rival similar models from Tesla, Li Auto, Nio

Development of the YU7 reflects Xiaomi’s growing confidence in its EV business, which met its 100,000-vehicle production target this year.

The YU7 electric sports utility vehicle from Xiaomi is expected to be launched in June or July next year. Photo: Xiaomi
China airliners

With China’s C919 flying high, local governments scramble to cash in

Regions are racing to sign deals with suppliers for the new aircraft, with hundreds of planes set to be built over the next few years.

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Artificial intelligence

Moonshot AI founder’s dispute with 5 investors up for arbitration in Hong Kong

The five firms that invested in Moonshot AI founder Yang Zhilin’s last venture, Recurrent AI, claim he has ‘uncleared liability’.

Electric & new energy vehicles

Chinese EV start-up Hozon eyes exports to ride out price war

The Shanghai-based EV maker aims to sell 50 per cent of its cars overseas by 2026 and turn a profit the same year, founder Fang Yunzhou says.

Hozon founder and chairman Fang Yunzhou at the delivery ceremony of Neta X cars in Hong Kong in September. Photo: May Tse
Semiconductors

China launches antitrust probe into US chip giant Nvidia in tech war escalation

The action is an apparent response to Washington’s tightened chip restrictions against China.

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Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang delivers a speech at an event on artificial intelligence in Tokyo on November 13, 2024. Photo: Kyodo
Alibaba

Alibaba entertainment group head regrets belittling video-gaming unit, Cantonese

Alibaba’s Fan Luyuan admitted he was ‘out of line’ with controversial remarks that he said during a meeting with employees of Lingxi Games.

Semiconductors

State-owned Chinese memory chipmaker YMTC denies back-door listing intention

Chinese chip firms have become the new darlings for retail investors, who see more opportunity for local development under tighter US sanctions.

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