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Artificial intelligence

China’s AI capital spending set to reach up to US$98 billion in 2025: BofA

Government investment is expected to account for US$56 billion, while China’s major internet firms are projected to contribute US$24 billion.

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Huawei

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

US-China tech war

How Huawei’s silicon strategy defies US sanctions, advances China’s AI ambitions

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Huawei

Huawei opens HarmonyOS 6 to developers, prepares AI features for public launch

The tech giant did not give a public launch date for the latest version of the operating system, but said it will be more intelligent and open.

People visit the Huawei booth during Mobile World Congress at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre on June 18. Photo: AFP
People visit the Huawei booth during Mobile World Congress at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre on June 18. Photo: AFP
TikTok

TikTok ‘continues to work with’ Vance on deal as its US fate remains uncertain

TikTok said it was ‘grateful’ for Trump’s deadline extension to September 17, which would allow it to keep serving its 170 million US users.

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Semiconductors

China’s Empyrean sees opportunities in US chip-design software curbs

Beijing-based company hopes to ascend to the top tier of global EDA providers, but acknowledges considerable gap with US rivals.

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Semiconductors

How Huawei’s AI chips outperform Nvidia’s in running DeepSeek’s R1 model

Performance of Huawei’s AI data centre architecture, CloudMatrix 384, illustrates the firm’s progress in overcoming US tech control measures.

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Huawei’s Ascend-based AI data centre architecture now rivals Nvidia’s own SGLang fast-serving framework. Photo: Shutterstock
Huawei’s Ascend-based AI data centre architecture now rivals Nvidia’s own SGLang fast-serving framework. Photo: Shutterstock
Blockchain

Tariffs see Chinese bitcoin-mining machine makers eye US production

Top manufacturers Bitmain, Canaan and MicroBT are setting up production in the US to counter tariff and geopolitical risks.

TikTok

TikTok’s fate still in limbo as Trump extends deadline to sell its US operations

Analyst assessments reflect the uncertainty on whether Trump can – or will – keep extending the TikTok ban.

DeepSeek

DeepSeek’s updated R1 AI model matches Google, Anthropic in coding benchmark

The updated reasoning model, released in May, performed well against leading US models in the real-time WebDev Arena tests.

A DeepSeek poster seen during the 2025 Global Developer Conference on February 22 in Shanghai. Photo: VCG via Getty Images
US-China tech war

US pushes Vietnam to decouple from Chinese tech, sources say

Vietnam has been asked ‘to reduce its dependency on Chinese hi-tech’, say one of the people familiar with the discussions.

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A woman uses her smartphone in a coffee shop in Hanoi. Photo: AFP
A woman uses her smartphone in a coffee shop in Hanoi. Photo: AFP
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.

US-China tech war

Taiwan blacklists leading chipmakers Huawei, SMIC amid US-China tech rivalry

The move will further tighten existing loopholes and curb collaboration between Chinese firms on the entity list and Taiwanese tech leaders.

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E-commerce

Temu resumes direct sales to US after Washington-Beijing trade truce

Some items that had been removed from Temu’s US marketplace last month have been made available for sale in recent days.

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The Temu logo is seen in front of a US flag in this illustration taken May 4, 2025. Photo: Reuters
US-China tech war

Huawei’s AI chip output limited to 200,000 in 2025, US commerce official says

That number falls short of Nvidia’s over 1 million China-specific H20 chips produced in the last nine months of 2024, analysts estimate.

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Use of Huawei’s Ascend AI chips “anywhere in the world” could be interpreted as a violation of US export controls, according to new guidance from Washington. Photo: Shutterstock
Use of Huawei’s Ascend AI chips “anywhere in the world” could be interpreted as a violation of US export controls, according to new guidance from Washington. Photo: Shutterstock
Apple

Apple is shipping nearly all of its India-made iPhones to the US

From March to May, Foxconn exported iPhones worth US$3.2 billion from India, with an average of 97 per cent shipped to the US.

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US-China tech war

Nvidia CEO says Huawei has everyone ‘covered’ if US chip ban on China stays

Still, Jensen Huang says his company’s technology remains a generation ahead of those developed by Chinese rivals.

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Huawei

Chinese tech champions boost Europe ties amid US tensions

At VivaTech, the Chinese ambassador to France says Beijing is ready to collaborate with Paris to enhance scientific and technological exchanges.

A Huawei sign seen at the VivaTech fair in Paris. Photo: AFP
A Huawei sign seen at the VivaTech fair in Paris. Photo: AFP
Semiconductors

Nvidia bets on European AI push amid shrinking China revenue

The chip designer pledged to build 20 AI factories on the continent, including a German facility in the works to be equipped with 10,000 GPUs.

Blockchain

With early stablecoin law, Hong Kong looks to keep edge as finance hub

Hong Kong is looking to ‘secure a leading role in global payment systems’, one analyst says, as law comes ahead of a similar US stablecoin bill.

Semiconductors

Huawei founder sheds light on China’s strategy to overcome US curbs

Ren Zhengfei’s comments underscore Huawei’s commitment to achieving chip self-sufficiency, with compound semiconductors playing a key role.

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Ren Zhengfei, founder of Huawei Technologies. Photo: Kyodo
DJI

DJI launches US$10,000 enterprise drone that can avoid power lines at night

The new Matrice 400 offers a 59-minute flight time, a payload capacity of up to 6kg and a powerful obstacle-sensing system.

DJI’s Matrice 400 enterprise drone flies near a high-voltage transmission tower. Photo: Handout
DJI’s Matrice 400 enterprise drone flies near a high-voltage transmission tower. Photo: Handout
Artificial intelligence

iFlytek says using local chips in AI models extends development time by 3 months

Liu’s comments show how some Chinese tech companies are determined to improve their AI capabilities without access to Nvidia chips.

Made in China 2025

GoPro rival Insta360 eyes global expansion after strong Shanghai IPO

After the Star Market’s biggest debut in a year and a half, executive Max Richter touted the company’s commitment to global markets amid trade tensions.

Semiconductors

Chinese academy launches automated system to speed up chip design

The system, developed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, uses AI for semiconductor design, dispensing with the need for human developers.

Chips seen on a circuit board of a computer. Photo: Reuters
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DeepSeek rival MiniMax says its first AI reasoning model halves compute of R1

MiniMax-M1 consumes half the resources and has a context window 10 times the size of DeepSeek-R1, according to the start-up. Photo: Shutterstock

China Economy

China’s top lawmakers review first report on new tech-driven growth model

A machinist debugs humanoid robots at Zhongguancun International Innovation Center in Beijing, China. Photo: Xinhua

Business

China’s drug innovators bank on AI to hasten discovery to commercial success

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Tech War

China’s AI capital spending set to reach up to US$98 billion in 2025: BofA

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China’s increased capital spending on artificial intelligence reflects the heightened enthusiasm for the technology on the mainland. Photo: Shutterstock

China Economy

China’s plug-in hybrid exports spike in wake of EU tariff exemption

China’s exports of electric vehicles to Europe have surged in recent years, leading the European Union to impose tariffs on Chinese-made EVs in November. Photo: Reuters
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