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Advanced Micro Devices

Advanced Micro Devices
The latest news and top stories on Advanced Micro Devices. A California-based entity in the semiconductor and technology sector, AMD specialises in designing high-performance central processing units, graphics processing units and AI accelerators. It primarily serves global gaming, data centre and artificial intelligence markets and is known for challenging competitors and gaining market share.
Employees work on a production line at JCET’s semiconductor packaging and testing facility in China’s eastern Jiangsu province. Photo: Getty Images
Semiconductors

AI boom, profit surge fuel China’s ambitious chip assembly buildout

Chinese chip packaging firms launch multibillion-dollar expansion drive after logging triple-figure profit growth on surging AI demand.

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IPO

Chinese GPU start-up MetaX confidentially files for Hong Kong listing: sources

Artificial intelligence

Huawei and Cambricon tighten grip on China’s AI chip market as Nvidia slips

Semiconductors

Forget memory chips: MLCCs are Shenzhen’s newest gold rush

Huaqiangbei traders are racing to secure MLCC supplies as soaring AI demand pushes prices sharply higher across the market.

Multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs) have become one of the hottest components in the electronics supply chain as demand from AI servers and electric vehicles drives prices higher. Photo: Shutterstock
Semiconductors

China’s Nvidia challenger MetaX eyes Hong Kong share sale to fund AI ambitions

Shanghai-listed AI chipmaker plans H-share sale to fund next-generation GPU development, supply-chain investment and global expansion.

Artificial intelligence

Huawei chips refine DeepSeek model in leap for China’s AI self-reliance

While Chinese chipmakers have found success in supporting AI inference, they are struggling with the far more complex process of training.

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2026 Xi-Trump summits

No need for ‘AI Iron Curtain’, China’s Communist Party mouthpiece says

People’s Daily says China and US should work together to advance the development and governance of artificial intelligence.

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Humanoid robots manufactured by Unitree Robotics dance on the opening day of Asia’s first embodied intelligence experience store in Shanghai on Sunday. Photo: AFP
US-China relations

US takes step to halt Nvidia AI chip shipments to Chinese overseas subsidiaries

Surprise move suggests US chips may have been making their way to the subsidiaries of Chinese firms based in places such as Malaysia.

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US-China tech war

US chipmakers in China see revenue rise, defying trade tensions: Hurun list

American semiconductor firms saw a significant boost in sales from the mainland, as a top list shows which are leading the gains amid high-end silicon demand.

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Artificial intelligence

China behind in LLM race but it can still win in AI, ex-Tencent AI lead says

In the AI era, the problem with being a technological follower is the constant risk of having the rug pulled from under you, Liu says.

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Liu Wei, founder and CEO of Video Rebirth, interviewed at the start-up’s office in Science Park, Sha Tin, May 15, 2026. Photo: Sun Yeung
Artificial intelligence

AMD meeting with China’s vice-premier raises optimism on US AI chips

‘Relatively advanced’ chips to start entering China in second half, as US is ‘pulling back’ on tariff war and tech decoupling, analysts say.

AMD CEO Lisa Su reinforced AMD’s commitment to China during a keynote speech at AMD’s AI developer day in Shanghai on Tuesday, describing it as “the world’s most dynamic AI ecosystem”. Photo: Shutterstock Images
Artificial intelligence

Ex-Meta Chinese star joins race for self-improving AI with US$4.6b start-up

The funding round was led by venture capital firms GV and Greycroft, with ‘major participation’ from Nvidia and AMD.

Semiconductors

China’s chipmakers pour revenue into R&D, outpacing US ratios

Earnings show Chinese chip designers devote up to half of revenue to research, far above US peers, as Beijing pushes tech self-reliance.

Hong Kong stock market

‘China’s Nasdaq’ nears record high as strong tech momentum buoys Asian stocks

Asia’s stock markets received a boost as US tech giants reported strong results and President Donald Trump signalled more Iran peace talks.

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People stand beneath a large screen showing the latest stock prices in Shanghai. Photo: EPA
Semiconductors

Cambricon vaults to China’s costliest stock after profits soar 185% amid AI boom

China’s chip foundries also benefit from the country’s efforts to achieve semiconductor self-reliance.

People visit the MetaX booth at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai on July 26, 2025. Photo: CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images
Semiconductors

How Intel is riding the ‘CPU comeback’ as AI shifts - and where China stands

What’s behind the ‘CPU renaissance’ and where China stands in designing and manufacturing central processing units in the AI age.

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United States

Trump names CEOs of Meta, Nvidia to 13-member science and tech council

The council, which also includes Oracle’s Larry Ellison and Google co-founder Sergey Brin, will weigh in on AI policy and other issues.

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Semiconductors

Semicon China: AI, packaging set to drive country’s chip industry growth

China on track to account for nearly half of world wafer capacity in two years, organiser of world’s largest chip industry trade show says.

People stream into the Semicon China exhibition in Shanghai on Wednesday. Photo: AFP
Semiconductors

Precision strike: China targets US, Japan stranglehold on photoresist supply

Essential material for advanced semiconductor processes expected to enter stage of accelerated breakthroughs, major Chinese supplier says.

Semiconductors

The great chip leap: China’s semiconductor equipment self-reliance beats targets

Domestic suppliers capture 35 per cent share as China accelerates push for semiconductor self-sufficiency.

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Artificial intelligence

Lenovo unveils new AI agent, Nvidia tie-up in glitzy show at CES 2026

The AI agent forms part of Lenovo’s ‘hybrid AI’ strategy that targets both consumer and enterprise markets.

Lenovo chairman and CEO Yang Yuanqing announces the company’s new personal AI agent Qira in Las Vegas on Tuesday. Photo: Xinmei Shen
Artificial intelligence

Nvidia CEO Huang says next generation of chips is in full production

To get the new performance, Huang said the Rubin chips use a proprietary kind of data that the company hopes the industry ‍will adopt.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang speaks about the Rubin AI super computing platform during a news conference ahead of the CES tech show in Las Vegas. Photo: AP
Robotics

China’s humanoid robot makers, Hong Kong start-ups set to dazzle CES 2026

Nearly a dozen Chinese humanoid robot makers are expected at the trade show, while Hong Kong sends its largest-ever delegation.

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Semiconductors

Chinese AI champion iFlytek forms new entity to expand into semiconductor design

Shandong Yixun Information Technology’s scope of operations includes integrated circuit design and other AI-related fields.

Moore Threads

Moore Threads unveils new AI chips to challenge Nvidia

The Shanghai-listed chipmaker launched the Huashan chip for AI and the Lushan chip for gaming, promising superior performance for both.

Moore Threads’ shares have soared since their debut in Shanghai on December 5. Photo: CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images
Semiconductors

US launches review of Nvidia’s H200 chip sales to China: sources

The inter-agency licensing review involves the US departments of Commerce, State, Energy and Defence.

A high-performance server equipped with Nvidia’s H200 graphics processing units seen at an event in Barcelona, Spain, earlier this year. Photo: Shutterstock
US-China trade war

Editorial | Export curbs or not, Trump’s America can’t slow China’s tech surge

US debate over how to contain China’s tech development is irrelevant as Chinese domestic industry development has already taken full flight.

Semiconductors

AMD chief Lisa Su commits to ‘deeper’ China investments after MIIT meeting

In Beijing on Wednesday, Su exchanged views with MIIT director on ‘strengthening cooperation’ in the digital economy and AI sectors.

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