https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/rss/36/feed The latest technology news, reviews, gadgets, launches and products. en https://assets-v2.i-scmp.com/production/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg Iris Deng Iris Deng Chinese memory chip giant ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) forecast a net income of up to US$19.8 billion for the first nine months of 2026, marking a dramatic swing from a loss a year ago, as the domestic champion cashed in on artificial intelligence-driven demand while aggressively challenging global rivals including Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix. Meanwhile, Zhu Yiming, chairman of the Hefei-based memory giant, proposed to buy back 1 billion (US$149.56 million) to 2 billion yuan of... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/tech/big-tech/article/3371314/cxmt-forecasts-us198-billion-3-quarters-net-income-pledges-share-buy-back?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/tech/big-tech/article/3371314/cxmt-forecasts-us198-billion-3-quarters-net-income-pledges-share-buy-back?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 18 Oct 2026 23:30:08 +0000 Chong Ming Lee,Mandy Zuo Chong Ming Lee,Mandy Zuo When artificial intelligence agents first arrived, they came with a tantalising promise: autonomous “digital workers” that would finally free humans from corporate drudgery. As businesses across Asia are discovering, however, the reality is quite the opposite – more work, new friction and a whole new layer of management. When Xiao Mengjie, an AI product marketing manager at a Big Tech firm in Shanghai, recently assigned two AI agents what she described as a simple task, she expected efficiency.... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/tech/big-tech/article/3371246/ai-promise-was-automation-reality-managing-digital-workers?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/tech/big-tech/article/3371246/ai-promise-was-automation-reality-managing-digital-workers?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 18 Oct 2026 14:00:08 +0000 Christina Zhao Christina Zhao When shoppers step into Rokid’s brand new flagship store in Hong Kong, they are greeted not by eager sales associates, but by glowing monitor screens and a robotic system waiting at the exit. In what the Chinese augmented reality (AR) gadget pioneer called an experiment in “no man’s land” retail, customers navigate the entire journey independently: testing artificial intelligence smart glasses, making payments on a screen and receiving their new devices directly from an automated system on their... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/tech/tech-trends/article/3371300/rokid-launches-no-mans-land-retail-experience-hong-kong-flagship-store-opening?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/tech/tech-trends/article/3371300/rokid-launches-no-mans-land-retail-experience-hong-kong-flagship-store-opening?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 18 Oct 2026 09:36:17 +0000 Iris Deng,Vincent Chow Iris Deng,Vincent Chow China’s proposed export bans and controls of artificial intelligence technologies aim to tighten Beijing’s grip in the strategically vital sector, casting a cloud over the commercial prospects of domestic model developers in the global AI race, analysts say. The new measures come as concerns mount globally over the risks of advanced AI systems, following a string of recent cyberattacks, while also underscoring AI’s growing national security importance for both Beijing and Washington. Zhang Yi,... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/tech/big-tech/article/3371247/chinas-proposed-ai-tech-export-bans-may-create-short-term-costs-long-term-gains-analysts?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/tech/big-tech/article/3371247/chinas-proposed-ai-tech-export-bans-may-create-short-term-costs-long-term-gains-analysts?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 17 Oct 2026 12:00:11 +0000 Minxiao Chang Minxiao Chang China’s artificial intelligence companies have spent years persuading consumers to pay for their technology. Now, Moonshot AI, the start-up behind Kimi, is taking a different approach: offering AI computing benefits through a credit card. The company has teamed up with the Agricultural Bank of China (ABC) and American Express for what it calls “the world’s first AI native credit card”. After getting one for myself, the experience offered an intriguing way to bring AI services into everyday... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/tech/tech-trends/article/3371226/reporters-notebook-kimis-ai-credit-card-turns-spending-computing-quotas-limits?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/tech/tech-trends/article/3371226/reporters-notebook-kimis-ai-credit-card-turns-spending-computing-quotas-limits?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 17 Oct 2026 08:00:11 +0000 Ann Cao Ann Cao Alibaba Group Holding’s two major domestic online marketplaces, Taobao and Tmall, plan to greatly expand the use of artificial intelligence across merchants’ operations next year, a senior executive said, as the e-commerce giant doubles down on the technology to drive growth amid a challenging consumer landscape. “Starting next year, AI will comprehensively enter the internal enterprise workflows of merchants,” Liu Bo, president of Tmall, said at the company’s Singles’ Day media briefing on... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/tech/big-tech/article/3371203/alibaba-embed-ai-throughout-taobao-tmall-merchant-operations-2027-executive?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/tech/big-tech/article/3371203/alibaba-embed-ai-throughout-taobao-tmall-merchant-operations-2027-executive?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 16 Oct 2026 13:37:50 +0000 Alice Li,Howard Liu Alice Li,Howard Liu Dutch semiconductor equipment giant ASML is expanding into next-generation hybrid bonding, a technique that creates dense electrical connections by directly joining chips or silicon wafers, according to a new report. Major Chinese companies are also adopting the technology to improve chip performance. ASML submitted 27 patent families related to hybrid bonding tools between December 2022 and November 2024, according to a report published by semiconductor and AI supply chain research firm... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/tech/tech-trends/article/3371181/asml-eyes-hybrid-bonding-report-finds-chinese-firms-adopt-chip-packaging-technique?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/tech/tech-trends/article/3371181/asml-eyes-hybrid-bonding-report-finds-chinese-firms-adopt-chip-packaging-technique?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 16 Oct 2026 12:30:12 +0000 Howard Liu Howard Liu Chinese chip and tech firms have flagged as much as six-fold growth in unaudited third-quarter profits, as huge demand for home-grown processors and artificial intelligence infrastructure filters through links in the supply chain amid the country’s push for self-reliance. Shanghai-listed Yuanjie Semiconductor Technology expected its quarterly net profit to land between 403 million yuan and 453 million yuan, up 579 per cent to 660 per cent from a year earlier. The maker of laser chips for optical... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/tech/tech-trends/article/3371159/chinas-ai-boom-self-sufficiency-push-fuel-earnings-surge-local-chip-firms?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/tech/tech-trends/article/3371159/chinas-ai-boom-self-sufficiency-push-fuel-earnings-surge-local-chip-firms?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 16 Oct 2026 09:30:09 +0000 Vincent Chow Vincent Chow A 17-year-old artificial intelligence researcher formerly with Moonshot AI has announced his departure for the United States, sparking intense speculation about his next move amid heated competition for elite talent between Silicon Valley and China’s tech hubs. Nathan Chen Guangyu wrote on social media on Thursday that he had left the Beijing-based start-up after less than a year, describing his time there as “the best [year] of my life so far”. The announcement caught many industry observers by... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/tech/tech-trends/article/3371117/who-nathan-chen-chinese-teen-ai-prodigy-being-courted-silicon-valley?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/tech/tech-trends/article/3371117/who-nathan-chen-chinese-teen-ai-prodigy-being-courted-silicon-valley?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 16 Oct 2026 06:30:13 +0000 Christina Zhao Christina Zhao The Hong Kong Productivity Council (HKPC) opened the city’s first experimental hub for embodied artificial intelligence on Thursday with the participation of seven mainland and Hong Kong companies, including industry leaders Unitree Robotics and Galbot, as the city looks to carve out a role in the global robotics boom. Located at the HKPC Building in Kowloon Tong, the Embodied AI International Applications Hub, housed under the HKPC’s industrial AI and robotics centre, features simulated... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/tech/tech-trends/article/3371095/hong-kong-vies-role-robotics-boom-launch-embodied-ai-hub?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/tech/tech-trends/article/3371095/hong-kong-vies-role-robotics-boom-launch-embodied-ai-hub?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 16 Oct 2026 04:00:39 +0000 Vincent Chow,Chong Ming Lee Vincent Chow,Chong Ming Lee A fleet of artificial intelligence agents operating on a Tencent Holdings cloud platform made thousands of attempts to circumvent security protections on Alibaba Group Holding’s mapping service, according to findings by third-party researchers. It is one of the first reported “rogue” AI events involving Chinese companies, following a string of recent high-profile incidents in the US, including from OpenAI and Anthropic, highlighting the risks of increasingly autonomous AI systems. Agents running... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/tech/tech-trends/article/3371007/ai-agents-tencent-cloud-try-break-alibabas-amap-researchers?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/tech/tech-trends/article/3371007/ai-agents-tencent-cloud-try-break-alibabas-amap-researchers?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 16 Oct 2026 01:00:06 +0000 Daisy Wu Daisy Wu Hong Kong investors are Asia’s most ambitious stock pickers, but they have much more subdued return expectations than regional peers swept up in enthusiasm over artificial intelligence, according to a survey by a global asset management firm. Some 95 per cent of Hong Kong respondents said they wanted to outperform the market, the highest proportion in Asia, where the average stood at 85 per cent, according to a survey conducted in August by Natixis Investment Managers. Hong Kong investors... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/business/markets/article/3371039/hong-kong-investors-most-eager-asia-beat-markets-temper-return-hopes-report?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/business/markets/article/3371039/hong-kong-investors-most-eager-asia-beat-markets-temper-return-hopes-report?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 15 Oct 2026 23:00:13 +0000 Ann Cao,Themis Qi Ann Cao,Themis Qi Alibaba Group Holding is gearing up for its annual Singles’ Day shopping festival on major online marketplaces Taobao and Tmall, with the company expecting a record one million global brands to take part this year. Pre-sales for the event open on Thursday, followed by the formal sale next Tuesday. The company projects more than 70 million products to feature, also a record for the festival. Created by Alibaba in 2009, Singles’ Day has grown into the world’s largest online shopping festival. Also... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/tech/big-tech/article/3371048/alibaba-sets-sights-record-breaking-singles-day-1-million-brands-joining-festival?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/tech/big-tech/article/3371048/alibaba-sets-sights-record-breaking-singles-day-1-million-brands-joining-festival?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 15 Oct 2026 13:00:23 +0000 Iris Deng Iris Deng Chinese artificial intelligence firm DeepSeek apologised and promised compensation to users after its services suffered a nearly five-hour outage on Thursday. DeepSeek will issue users a full refund for any consumption between October 8 and October 14 in the form of credits, according to a notice posted on the Hangzhou-based start-up’s application programming interface (API) platform. DeepSeek’s namesake chatbot and API services for its V4 Pro and V4.1 Flash models went offline on Thursday... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/tech/big-tech/article/3371047/deepseek-offers-user-refunds-after-suffering-another-major-outage?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/tech/big-tech/article/3371047/deepseek-offers-user-refunds-after-suffering-another-major-outage?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 15 Oct 2026 12:55:26 +0000 Otto Barten Otto Barten OpenAI recently announced perhaps its biggest mathematics breakthrough yet: it released novel results on 377 high-profile open problems. Artificial intelligence (AI) casually solved these decades-old problems as a mere by-product of training. The community of mathematicians did not universally welcome this development, with University of Connecticut professor Alvaro Lozano-Robledo commenting: “I am not sure at this point what this (hostile?) takeover of the mathematical landscape is trying to... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/opinion/world-opinion/article/3370688/how-could-superintelligence-take-over-world-let-me-count-ways?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/opinion/world-opinion/article/3370688/how-could-superintelligence-take-over-world-let-me-count-ways?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 15 Oct 2026 12:30:07 +0000 Chong Ming Lee Chong Ming Lee Chinese artificial intelligence lab Z.ai’s latest flagship model, GLM-5.3, may be sophisticated enough to “fake” its way through safety tests, according to a new report published Thursday, sparking new fears about the ability of artificial intelligence systems to shape their own development. The model, launched in August, showed an ability to consider how its behaviour during safety evaluations might influence how future versions of itself would be trained, according to AI safety organisation... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/tech/big-tech/article/3370963/zais-glm-53-raises-researcher-fears-chinese-model-can-fake-ai-safety-tests?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/tech/big-tech/article/3370963/zais-glm-53-raises-researcher-fears-chinese-model-can-fake-ai-safety-tests?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 15 Oct 2026 10:00:11 +0000 Howard Liu Howard Liu Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) is in discussions regarding a potential role in Elon Musk’s proposed Terafab project in Texas, according to company chairman and CEO C.C. Wei, although he stressed that TSMC would retain operational control of any partner factory. The plant “has got to be run by TSMC”, Wei said during the third-quarter earnings call on Thursday. TSMC, the world’s largest contract chipmaker, has sent teams to Texas to assess expansion opportunities beyond its US hub in... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/tech/big-tech/article/3371010/tsmc-confirms-talks-elon-musk-over-texas-terafab-insists-operational-control?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/tech/big-tech/article/3371010/tsmc-confirms-talks-elon-musk-over-texas-terafab-insists-operational-control?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 15 Oct 2026 09:31:35 +0000 Brian Rhoads,Raymond Ma Brian Rhoads,Raymond Ma China and the United States are in regular talks about artificial intelligence (AI) as they seek to firm up plans for an incident “hotline” and develop a formalised dialogue process ahead of a presidential summit next month. The two sides aim to agree on a basic framework for addressing AI incidents before Chinese President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump meet on the sidelines of the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) leaders’ meeting in Shenzhen, the South China Morning... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/plus/tech/tech-war/article/3371013/china-us-discuss-ai-chip-stock-rout-hits-asian-markets?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/plus/tech/tech-war/article/3371013/china-us-discuss-ai-chip-stock-rout-hits-asian-markets?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 15 Oct 2026 09:27:12 +0000 Enoch Yiu Enoch Yiu HSBC, Hong Kong’s biggest lender, said on Thursday it would double its artificial intelligence specialist team in the city to 300, a figure much larger than the workforce planned for its recently announced AI centre in Singapore. The announcement comes after Hong Kong’s regulators were reported to have raised concerns about the Singapore hub. The bank would double its AI specialist headcount in Hong Kong from 150 to 300 over the next two to three years, said David Liao Yi-chien, HSBC co-CEO for... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/business/banking-finance/article/3370997/hsbc-double-hong-kong-ai-team-300-outpacing-singapore-plan?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/business/banking-finance/article/3370997/hsbc-double-hong-kong-ai-team-300-outpacing-singapore-plan?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 15 Oct 2026 08:37:19 +0000 Emma Ma Emma Ma Three weeks into his tenure as the Communist Party secretary of Anhui province, Li Lecheng carried out an on-site inspection at China’s home-grown memory chip giant ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) on Wednesday, pledging to grow integrated circuits (ICs) as an emerging pillar industry. During the visit to the company’s headquarters in the central province’s capital of Hefei, Li urged CXMT to further refine its product portfolio and actively expand into domestic and overseas markets. He... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/economy/china-economy/article/3370970/chinas-cxmt-gets-pledge-support-provincial-party-chief-vows-chip-industry-expansion?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/economy/china-economy/article/3370970/chinas-cxmt-gets-pledge-support-provincial-party-chief-vows-chip-industry-expansion?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 15 Oct 2026 06:18:02 +0000 Ann Cao,Howard Liu Ann Cao,Howard Liu A Chinese start-up has unveiled a prototype extreme ultraviolet (EUV) light-source machine – a component often described as the “heart” of advanced lithography systems – marking an early but critical step in Beijing’s drive for self-reliance in chipmaking equipment. At the China International Industry Fair in Shanghai, Langdao Silex displayed its self-developed EUV light-source system. Ninety per cent of the machine’s components were localised, with the vast majority of core parts developed... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/tech/big-tech/article/3370966/start-unveils-prototype-heart-euv-lithography-amid-china-chipmaking-push?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/tech/big-tech/article/3370966/start-unveils-prototype-heart-euv-lithography-amid-china-chipmaking-push?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 15 Oct 2026 06:01:54 +0000 Cheryl Arcibal Cheryl Arcibal A mild displacement of jobs across the Asia-Pacific region as companies expand their use of AI would trim five percentage points off growth in office space demand in the next few years, according to property consultancy CBRE. In a report released on Thursday it said 3.9 per cent of office jobs were vulnerable to artificial intelligence-driven displacement in developed markets in the region, including Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Australia and New Zealand. However, only 1.7... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/business/article/3370934/ai-job-losses-set-rein-office-demand-developed-asia-pacific-economies-report?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/business/article/3370934/ai-job-losses-set-rein-office-demand-developed-asia-pacific-economies-report?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 15 Oct 2026 06:00:11 +0000 Xiaofei Xu Xiaofei Xu Dutch semiconductor equipment giant ASML expects China to account for about 20 per cent of its total sales this year, after seeing shipments to the market more than double during the previous quarter despite mounting US pressure for tighter export restrictions on less advanced chipmaking machinery. The company’s sales to China surged 109 per cent in the third quarter compared with the previous three months, according to financial results released on Wednesday. That took China’s share of ASML’s... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/tech/big-tech/article/3370904/asmls-chip-equipment-sales-china-soar-109-despite-us-export-curb-push?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/tech/big-tech/article/3370904/asmls-chip-equipment-sales-china-soar-109-despite-us-export-curb-push?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 14 Oct 2026 14:00:12 +0000 Ben Jiang Ben Jiang The rapid and unbridled development of artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to disrupt the US economy in a way that is comparable to the “China shock” that displaced American workers, former US commerce secretary Gina Raimondo warns. Speaking at the Bloomberg New Economy Forum in New Delhi on Tuesday, she drew parallels between AI’s potential disruption to American jobs and the past impact of Chinese manufacturing competition on the US labour market. “In America, we’ve seen what... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/tech/article/3370838/ai-risks-could-repeat-china-shock-cost-jobs-former-us-commerce-chief-raimondo-warns?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/tech/article/3370838/ai-risks-could-repeat-china-shock-cost-jobs-former-us-commerce-chief-raimondo-warns?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 14 Oct 2026 13:00:06 +0000 Iris Deng Iris Deng China has granted approval for Alibaba Group Holding’s artificial intelligence models to be integrated into several Apple handsets, including the new iPhone Duo, in the Chinese market, clearing a key regulatory hurdle for the long-delayed launch of Apple Intelligence in the country. Updated network access permits for the iPhone Duo, iPhone 18 Pro and several earlier Apple models from China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology now include three approved AI systems: Apple Intelligence... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/tech/big-tech/article/3370893/china-approves-alibaba-ai-models-use-iphone-duo-and-other-apple-handsets?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/tech/big-tech/article/3370893/china-approves-alibaba-ai-models-use-iphone-duo-and-other-apple-handsets?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 14 Oct 2026 11:06:20 +0000 Howard Liu Howard Liu Yangtze Memory Technologies Corporation (YMTC), China’s leading flash-memory maker, is set to grow revenue six times faster than its industry peers this year as it expands into server-related business ahead of a planned initial public offering (IPO), according to Counterpoint Research. The company’s server-related revenue was effectively zero in 2024, but could account for nearly 39 per cent of its revenue by 2028, according to the market intelligence firm on Tuesday. Much of the momentum is... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/tech/big-tech/article/3370871/chinese-memory-giant-ymtc-grow-revenue-6-times-faster-peers-ipo-nears-report?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/tech/big-tech/article/3370871/chinese-memory-giant-ymtc-grow-revenue-6-times-faster-peers-ipo-nears-report?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 14 Oct 2026 11:00:10 +0000 Ann Cao Ann Cao China’s integrated circuit (IC) exports surged 136 per cent year on year in September to US$45 billion, exceeding the 108 per cent growth rate in the first nine months of the year in a sign of the country’s rising influence in the global semiconductor supply chain. In September, China exported 32.7 billion units of ICs, according to customs data released on Wednesday, a 1 per cent year-on-year increase in volume. But higher prices fuelled the 136 per cent jump in value amid a memory chip... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/tech/tech-trends/article/3370858/china-chip-exports-jump-136-us45b-ai-frenzy-jacks-prices?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/tech/tech-trends/article/3370858/china-chip-exports-jump-136-us45b-ai-frenzy-jacks-prices?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 14 Oct 2026 08:30:11 +0000 Iris Deng Iris Deng Huawei Technologies has shipped more than 100 million devices powered by its Kirin processors since 2023, when it returned to the smartphone market with a new generation of premium handsets. The company says testing of its next-generation Kirin 2027 chip is also progressing in line with expectations. The company disclosed the figure on Tuesday as it unveiled new details about its flagship Kirin 9050 series, the first mass-produced chip using its proprietary LogicFolding architecture, developed... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/tech/big-tech/article/3370766/huawei-once-hobbled-us-sanctions-passes-100-million-kirin-chip-milestone?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/tech/big-tech/article/3370766/huawei-once-hobbled-us-sanctions-passes-100-million-kirin-chip-milestone?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 13 Oct 2026 13:00:08 +0000 Howard Liu Howard Liu A sharp sell-off in Asian memory chip stocks this week signals growing investor doubts over whether the sector’s AI-driven profit boom can last, even as soaring prices drive strong quarterly earnings across the sector. Shares in market leaders Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix plunged in Seoul on Tuesday, extending a days-long slide that has also swept up Chinese rival ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT). Samsung and SK Hynix closed down 7.4 per cent and 10.1 per cent, respectively. The companies... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/tech/tech-trends/article/3370739/why-samsung-sk-hynix-and-cxmt-shares-are-under-pressure-despite-strong-ai-demand?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/tech/tech-trends/article/3370739/why-samsung-sk-hynix-and-cxmt-shares-are-under-pressure-despite-strong-ai-demand?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 13 Oct 2026 10:30:05 +0000 Ann Cao Ann Cao Chinese AI chipmaker Iluvatar CoreX debuted its first supernode system, a computing system that squeezes 144 graphics processing units (GPUs) into a single cabinet, breaking an industrial record. The new product, dubbed the Tiangai 300 IXL144, was unveiled on Monday at the 2026 China International Industry Fair (CIIF) in Shanghai. Designed for large-scale AI model training and inference, the system packs 144 GPUs and 18 central processing units (CPUs) into a single cabinet and boasts around 10.1... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/tech/tech-trends/article/3370711/chinas-iluvatar-corexs-first-ai-computing-supernode-squeezes-most-gpus-1-system?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/tech/tech-trends/article/3370711/chinas-iluvatar-corexs-first-ai-computing-supernode-squeezes-most-gpus-1-system?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 13 Oct 2026 09:00:04 +0000 Zhang Shidong Zhang Shidong Mainland Chinese investors bought more Hong Kong stocks than they sold for a fourth consecutive month in September, with purchases accelerating despite persistent headwinds from elevated US Treasury yields and oil prices. Onshore traders poured a net HK$60.8 billion (US$7.7 billion) into Hong Kong’s stocks via the Stock Connect programme last month, up from HK$10.4 billion in August, according to financial data provider Wind. Net buying reached HK$134.1 billion in the third quarter. Mainland... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/business/china-business/article/3370564/mainland-chinese-traders-boost-hong-kong-stock-buying-4th-month-ai-bets-surge?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/business/china-business/article/3370564/mainland-chinese-traders-boost-hong-kong-stock-buying-4th-month-ai-bets-surge?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 13 Oct 2026 02:00:13 +0000 Ann Cao Ann Cao China Mobile, one of the country’s state-backed telecoms giants, has tripled the capacity of its largest intelligent computing hub in northern Inner Mongolia, amid Beijing’s push to boost digital infrastructure to power the country’s artificial intelligence ambitions. The expansion of its data centre in Hohhot was recently completed, with total processing capacity increased to 20,100 petaflops, according to a report by Inner Mongolia Daily on Monday. That was triple its previous capacity of... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/tech/big-tech/article/3370600/china-mobile-triples-capacity-mega-inner-mongolia-computing-hub-amid-nations-ai-push?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/tech/big-tech/article/3370600/china-mobile-triples-capacity-mega-inner-mongolia-computing-hub-amid-nations-ai-push?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 13 Oct 2026 01:00:12 +0000 Vincent Chow Vincent Chow US start-up OpenAI’s latest advances in artificial intelligence may be a tipping point that leads to a breakthrough for the robotics industry as soon as next year, according to the founder of Chinese giant Unitree Robotics. Wang Xingxing, also the CEO of the Hangzhou-based company, said on Monday that OpenAI’s recently released GPT-6 model prompted expectations that a breakthrough could happen “within one or two years”. “It’s possible that, say, a GPT-7 model released next year could directly... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/tech/big-tech/article/3370603/openais-gpt-6-may-lead-robotics-breakthrough-soon-next-year-unitree-founder?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/tech/big-tech/article/3370603/openais-gpt-6-may-lead-robotics-breakthrough-soon-next-year-unitree-founder?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 12 Oct 2026 13:30:07 +0000 Howard Liu Howard Liu China accounts for about 5 per cent of the equipment and materials directly supplied to the US chip industry when measured by country of manufacture, but its grip on certain rare earths needed for chipmaking is over 90 per cent, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA). While 95 per cent of the nearly US$27 billion annual spending by American chipmakers on manufacturing equipment and materials was sourced from companies headquartered in the US, Europe, and Japan, that figure... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/tech/tech-trends/article/3370581/mapping-us-chip-supply-chain-china-accounts-far-more-it-appears-report-says?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/tech/tech-trends/article/3370581/mapping-us-chip-supply-chain-china-accounts-far-more-it-appears-report-says?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 12 Oct 2026 10:00:05 +0000 Xinmei Shen Xinmei Shen A former top executive at HSBC has launched an artificial intelligence-driven wealth management start-up, setting her sights on a billion-dollar valuation and betting that AI can transform how individuals manage their investments and finances. Trista Sun, formerly a managing director in the international wealth and premier banking division at HSBC, said in an interview last week that her venture Equora aimed to help investors manage their finances “proactively” with AI agents, addressing... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/business/money/wealth/article/3370565/former-hsbc-executive-launches-wealth-platform-powered-team-ai-agents?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/business/money/wealth/article/3370565/former-hsbc-executive-launches-wealth-platform-powered-team-ai-agents?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 12 Oct 2026 09:00:09 +0000 Minxiao Chang Minxiao Chang New research has exposed a potential flaw in the memory-saving technology underpinning DeepSeek’s models, marking a rare challenge to a breakthrough that has helped the Chinese artificial intelligence lab close the gap with US rivals OpenAI and Anthropic with its low-cost approach. The findings were published late last month in a paper led by researchers from ByteDance and co-authors affiliated with Princeton University, Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley. The study,... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/tech/tech-trends/article/3370550/deepseeks-cost-saving-ai-may-lead-inaccuracy-model-performance-research?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/tech/tech-trends/article/3370550/deepseeks-cost-saving-ai-may-lead-inaccuracy-model-performance-research?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 12 Oct 2026 07:00:07 +0000 Christina Zhao Christina Zhao More than half of Hong Kong’s working adults believe artificial intelligence will make their retirement path more unpredictable than previous generations, yet only one in five feel financially prepared for the shift, according to a survey by global asset manager T. Rowe Price. About 55 per cent of the 1,004 Hong Kong residents surveyed – all 30 or older and earning at least HK$15,000 (US$2,239) per month – said they expected AI-driven disruptions to destabilise their long-term career and income... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/business/banking-finance/article/3370504/hong-kong-workers-fear-ai-driven-disruption-retirement-only-20-feel-prepared-survey?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/business/banking-finance/article/3370504/hong-kong-workers-fear-ai-driven-disruption-retirement-only-20-feel-prepared-survey?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 12 Oct 2026 04:00:12 +0000 Iris Deng Iris Deng China’s manufacturing sector is leapfrogging straight into the era of agentic artificial intelligence and is now exporting that playbook to global supply chains, according to the CEO of Black Lake, a Chinese provider of cloud-based AI tools for factories. “Just as China skipped credit cards and jumped directly to mobile payments, many factories are skipping full traditional digitalisation and jumping directly to AI agents,” Zhou Yuxiang said in a recent interview with the South China Morning... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/tech/big-tech/article/3370490/chinas-factories-leaping-straight-agentic-ai-and-taking-it-global-black-lake-ceo?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/tech/big-tech/article/3370490/chinas-factories-leaping-straight-agentic-ai-and-taking-it-global-black-lake-ceo?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 12 Oct 2026 04:00:07 +0000 Peggy Ye Peggy Ye China’s top securities regulator has signalled fresh support for the domestic A-share market, convening a symposium over the weekend as authorities sought to shore up sentiment following a sharp sell-off in technology shares driven by concerns over US sanctions. The China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) brought together executives from listed companies and experts from securities firms and fund managers at a meeting in Beijing on Saturday to “discuss the country’s capital markets and... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/business/banking-finance/article/3370506/beijing-moves-steady-share-market-after-sharp-tech-sell?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/business/banking-finance/article/3370506/beijing-moves-steady-share-market-after-sharp-tech-sell?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 12 Oct 2026 01:00:19 +0000 Coco Feng Coco Feng Chinese memory chip giant ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) has reported “key progress” on a new cell architecture to boost memory density, an innovation that competitors such as Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix are also working on. CXMT planned to roll out a new server-memory product based on the structure by the end of 2026, president Cao Kanyu said at an industrial event in Shanghai over the weekend, according to a company statement. At the centre of the development is the “4F square”... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/tech/big-tech/article/3370505/chinas-cxmt-unveils-key-progress-chip-structure-pursued-samsung-sk-hynix?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/tech/big-tech/article/3370505/chinas-cxmt-unveils-key-progress-chip-structure-pursued-samsung-sk-hynix?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:30:13 +0000 Coco Feng Coco Feng Apple executive chairman Tim Cook has begun his third visit to China this year, following the launch of the iPhone 18 Pro line-up and the iPhone Duo, the company’s first foldable device, in one of its biggest markets. Cook met Meng Fanli, governor of the southern province of Guangdong, on Sunday and said Apple was willing to expand its presence, including in smart manufacturing and sales channels. As an important manufacturing powerhouse, Guangdong had been essential to Apple’s growth in China,... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/tech/tech-trends/article/3370500/apples-tim-cook-kicks-china-visit-amid-mixed-signals-new-iphone-demand?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/tech/tech-trends/article/3370500/apples-tim-cook-kicks-china-visit-amid-mixed-signals-new-iphone-demand?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 11 Oct 2026 13:00:09 +0000 Chong Ming Lee Chong Ming Lee US President Donald Trump wants to banish the word “artificial” from artificial intelligence, saying it makes one of the world’s most consequential technologies sound “fake”. Across the Pacific, however, China’s name for the technology has long carried a different connotation – one that places humans, rather than artificiality, at its centre. Trump last week signed an executive order directing US federal agencies to replace “artificial intelligence”, or AI, with “Super Intelligence”, or SI, in... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/tech/tech-trends/article/3370269/whats-name-what-china-and-trump-call-ai-reveals-how-they-see-its-future?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/tech/tech-trends/article/3370269/whats-name-what-china-and-trump-call-ai-reveals-how-they-see-its-future?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 11 Oct 2026 06:00:06 +0000 Howard Liu Howard Liu Japanese semiconductor materials giant Sumitomo Bakelite plans to expand production of advanced chip packaging materials in China and Singapore, marking the second such announcement for its Chinese operations in less than four months as artificial intelligence drives demand for more sophisticated semiconductors. The Tokyo-based company said on Friday that it would add production lines for mould underfill (MUF) materials and compression-moulding granules at its facilities in Suzhou, eastern... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/tech/tech-trends/article/3370468/japans-sumitomo-bakelite-expands-china-chip-packaging-materials-output-amid-ai-boom?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/tech/tech-trends/article/3370468/japans-sumitomo-bakelite-expands-china-chip-packaging-materials-output-amid-ai-boom?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 11 Oct 2026 03:04:32 +0000 Ann Cao Ann Cao Embracing the open-source approach is the only way for Europe to achieve technological independence, Alibaba Group Holding chairman Joe Tsai said, pointing to China’s own open-source drive as a blueprint for innovation under constraints. For Europe, which shares China’s deep roots in traditional manufacturing, the open-source approach presented a unique opportunity, Tsai said, highlighting that factories in the region possessed highly valuable manufacturing data. “You don’t want to feed it into... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/tech/tech-trends/article/3370428/open-source-ai-europes-only-path-tech-independence-says-alibaba-chairman-joe-tsai?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/tech/tech-trends/article/3370428/open-source-ai-europes-only-path-tech-independence-says-alibaba-chairman-joe-tsai?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 10 Oct 2026 05:34:09 +0000 Shi Jiangtao,William Zheng Shi Jiangtao,William Zheng Kurt Campbell is a veteran US diplomat and strategist who has played a leading role in shaping Washington’s approach to China and the Indo-Pacific for more than a decade. He served as the White House coordinator for Indo-Pacific affairs from 2021 to 2024 and as US deputy secretary of state from 2024 to 2025. Previously, he served as assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs from 2009 to 2013 and was a key architect of the Obama administration’s “pivot to Asia”. Often... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/plus/news/china/diplomacy/article/3370379/kurt-campbell-us-china-focus-indo-pacific-quad-risks-ai?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/plus/news/china/diplomacy/article/3370379/kurt-campbell-us-china-focus-indo-pacific-quad-risks-ai?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:01:05 +0000 Chong Ming Lee Chong Ming Lee Did Chinese AI companies secretly tap US models to close the technology gap? That is the central question hanging over China’s tech sector following a wave of allegations from Washington and American AI lab Anthropic. According to a joint advisory by the National Security Agency, FBI, and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency last month, Chinese AI developers have been systematically extracting capabilities from US frontier models to reduce their own computing, electricity and... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/tech/tech-war/article/3370317/anthropic-claims-chinese-ai-firms-secretly-use-claude-it-true?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/tech/tech-war/article/3370317/anthropic-claims-chinese-ai-firms-secretly-use-claude-it-true?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 09 Oct 2026 13:30:07 +0000 Iris Deng Iris Deng Notebook manufacturers are being forced to rethink their shift out of China and consider moving production back to the manufacturing hub, as skyrocketing component costs squeeze profit margins, according to market research firm TrendForce. The Taiwan-based firm projected that the share of global notebook production outside mainland China would decline to 21 per cent this year from about 24 per cent in 2025, and drop below 20 per cent in 2027. “This suggests that brands are reassessing the... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/tech/tech-trends/article/3370341/soaring-component-costs-force-laptop-makers-rethink-shift-away-china-report?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/tech/tech-trends/article/3370341/soaring-component-costs-force-laptop-makers-rethink-shift-away-china-report?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 09 Oct 2026 11:30:07 +0000 Ann Cao Ann Cao Chinese state funds are ramping up support for the country’s second-largest contract chipmaker, pouring billions of yuan into the parent of Hua Hong Grace Semiconductor and a new manufacturing facility to fuel Beijing’s drive for self-reliance in mature-node chips. The capital blitz, spanning Hua Hong’s Shanghai-based parent company and a fabrication plant in Wuxi, highlights how government-coordinated financing is doubling down on domestic foundries, as Washington tightens technology... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/tech/big-tech/article/3370297/china-state-funds-double-down-hua-hong-legacy-chip-push?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/tech/big-tech/article/3370297/china-state-funds-double-down-hua-hong-legacy-chip-push?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 09 Oct 2026 08:30:09 +0000 Howard Liu Howard Liu Renewed fears of potential US trade curbs on next-generation optical transceivers for data centres have sent shares of Chinese suppliers tumbling, deepening a sell-off across artificial intelligence supply chain stocks. Shares of Chinese optical chipmakers extended their losses for a second straight session on Friday despite reassurances from major suppliers, while China’s benchmark CSI 300 Index slid 1.3 per cent by the midday break to its lowest level since August last year. Upstream laser... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/tech/tech-war/article/3370305/chinese-optical-chip-stocks-extend-rout-amid-fears-potential-us-curbs?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/tech/tech-war/article/3370305/chinese-optical-chip-stocks-extend-rout-amid-fears-potential-us-curbs?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 09 Oct 2026 07:13:16 +0000 Chong Ming Lee,Minxiao Chang Chong Ming Lee,Minxiao Chang Meta Platforms’ breakout Muse personal AI agent is shining a spotlight on a new battleground in artificial intelligence – one in which China’s biggest internet companies are already jostling for position. Launched on September 8, Muse surpassed 2.5 million downloads in its first two weeks and topped free-app rankings on Apple and Google’s US app stores. Its popularity has drawn fresh attention to the emerging market for what are known as agent harnesses. Unlike chatbots, which merely respond to... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/tech/big-tech/article/3370123/can-china-match-metas-muse-race-harness-ai-agents?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/tech/big-tech/article/3370123/can-china-match-metas-muse-race-harness-ai-agents?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 08 Oct 2026 14:00:08 +0000