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Cargo containers stacked at the Yantian terminal in the Port of Shenzhen. Photo: AFP

Tech Trends

What China is doing to make ports ‘smart’ and not prone to work stoppages

A unit of state-owned China Merchants Group is pushing a range of automation and digital technologies to make ports smarter.

Alibaba gives sellers a sweeter deal as Singles’ Day switch-up bears fruit

TSMC halts advanced chip orders from mainland China, source says

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Big Tech

US chip restrictions are hindering AI ambitions of China’s top chip foundry

SMIC co-CEO Zhao Haijun said the foundry can still benefit from rising demand for less advanced ‘legacy chips’ required for some AI products.

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SMIC’s facility in Pudong district of Shanghai on March 15. Photo: AFP
SMIC’s facility in Pudong district of Shanghai on March 15. Photo: AFP

Big Tech

Ant International drives AI in cross-border payments to boost global expansion

The firm’s AI model predicts currency exchange rates on an hourly basis, helping businesses reduce transaction costs.

Big Tech

Urgency of AI development at Meituan underscored as co-founder returns

After selling his AI start-up Light Year to Meituan last year, Wang has reportedly returned to lead the company’s AI efforts.

Big Tech

South Korea’s Samsung and SK Hynix push latest memory products at CIIE

The two firms’ high-profile exhibition reflects the vast demand for memory products in China, the world’s second-largest economy.

Samsung Electronics has one of the biggest booths at the exhibition area of the China International Import Expo in Shanghai. Photo: Handout

Big Tech

Southeast Asia’s e-commerce gold rush draws Chinese giants

The region’s e-commerce market is set to double by 2030, a new report finds.

Sellers in Jakarta, Indonesia, conduct a live-streamed sales session on TikTok. Photo: AFP
Sellers in Jakarta, Indonesia, conduct a live-streamed sales session on TikTok. Photo: AFP

Big Tech

Chinese smartphone makers lift Qualcomm’s chip sales

Launches of new flagship phones from Chinese Android brands such as Xiaomi, Oppo and Vivo have helped lift Qualcomm’s forecast.

Big Tech

‘China’s Instagram’ completes largest data migration ever to Alibaba Cloud

The popular lifestyle social platform Xiaohongshu spent a full year moving 500 petabytes of data to China’s largest cloud provider.

Tech War

From chip war to TikTok ban: what tech can expect from Donald Trump

As Donald Trump returns to the White House, tech companies are bracing for a revamp of tech policies imposed by Joe Biden.

Tech giants are bracing for the return of Donald Trump to the White House. Photo: EPA-EFE

Tech War

Semiconductor firms ASML, AMD, Qualcomm reaffirm China commitment

They joined about 400 other firms at the Intelligent Industry & Information Technology exhibition, part of the 2024 CIIE trade fair in Shanghai.

Hostesses for the China International Import Expo walk past a signage of the trade fair in Shanghai. Photo: EPA-EFE
Hostesses for the China International Import Expo walk past a signage of the trade fair in Shanghai. Photo: EPA-EFE

Policy

Dell opens AI centre in Shenzhen as PC maker shows commitment to China

Dell’s new AI Smart Solutions Centre comes one year after reports that it would be reducing its reliance on China.

United States & Canada

Canada orders shutdown of TikTok’s local business, but app not banned

Canadians will still have access to the short-video app owned by China’s ByteDance and can continue to create content.

Tech War

Chinese AI chip start-up Biren teams with compute start-up for performance gains

US-blacklisted chipmaker Biren says team-up with Tencent-backed Infinigence AI led to a 100 per cent improvement in GPU training capacity.

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Biren’s BR100 graphics processing unit. Biren is considered one of China’s leading domestic alternatives to Nvidia chips. Photo: Handout

Big Tech

Flying cars, drones to take off in Shenzhen with US$1.7 billion investment

Shenzhen is spending 12 billion yuan on the low-altitude economy over the next two years, with another 20 billion yuan planned through 2030.

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The Xpeng X2 flying car pictured in Guangzhou on May 15. Chinese cities are pouring resources into supporting the low-altitude economy. Photo: Xinhua
The Xpeng X2 flying car pictured in Guangzhou on May 15. Chinese cities are pouring resources into supporting the low-altitude economy. Photo: Xinhua

Tech War

Musk’s SpaceX asks Taiwanese suppliers to move production abroad

The US company has requested multiple satellite component manufacturers to produce outside Taiwan, sources say.

Big Tech

Apple to face first fine under new EU digital antitrust rules

The penalty, under the Digital Markets Act, is related to the iPhone maker’s App Store.

Big Tech

OpenAI safety exec calls for responsible AI development at Bilibili event

In an event hosted by and streamed to Bilibili, researcher Lilian Weng Li called AI a ‘double-edged sword’ that must be trained properly.

A researcher from OpenAI spoke about the need for the responsible development of AI to ensure safety during a Chinese conference hosted by Bilibili. Photo: Reuters

Big Tech

China’s Huawei pushes network gear upgrades in friendly nations

Under US sanctions, the Chinese telecoms equipment giant has sharpened its focus on mobile carriers in other markets.

Huawei is pushing for telecoms network upgrades in overseas markets. Photo: Shutterstock Images
Huawei is pushing for telecoms network upgrades in overseas markets. Photo: Shutterstock Images

Big Tech

Apple explores smart glasses, following Meta’s lead

An internal study is under way to gather feedback from Apple employees on smart glasses, sources say.

Big Tech

Chinese AI firms are splurging on ads to stand out in crowded market: report

Tech giants such as Alibaba and ByteDance along with start-ups spent US$70.2 million in the third quarter to promote generative AI products, report finds.

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Tech Trends

Smartphone giant Oppo, PolyU to launch joint AI research centre in Hong Kong

Oppo pledged US$4.2 million in funding over the next five years to deepen collaboration with PolyU on AI imaging technology.

Oppo and PolyU are expanding the scale of co-training in artificial intelligence for PhD and postdoctoral researchers in Hong Kong. Photo: Shutterstock
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