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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.
A billboard in the AI section of the Chinese International Supply Chain Expo in Beijing. Photo: Getty Images
Robotics

OpenAI’s GPT-6 may lead to earlier robotics breakthrough: Unitree founder

Wang Xingxing says OpenAI’s latest advances have accelerated prospects for a ‘ChatGPT moment’ in embodied intelligence.

Semiconductors

US chip sector has deep supply chain exposure to China: SIA report

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Electric & new energy vehicles

Brake-pedal failures in luxury Chinese EV draw regulatory spotlight

Artificial intelligence

How China’s factories leap straight into agentic AI and take it global

Manufacturers are bypassing traditional digitalisation and deploying AI agents across operations, Chinese software firm Black Lake says.

A visitor walks by a billboard for AI at the PT Expo, a major information and communications technology event, in Beijing last month. Photo: Getty Images
US-China tech war

Letters | As the US-China space race heats up, watch out for patent law

Readers discuss patent law in the US and China amid technological rivalry, and why Beijing might decide not to play by the West’s rules.

Semiconductors

China’s CXMT makes progress in chip design pursued by Samsung, SK Hynix

Memory chip giant says its proprietary transistor design could increase storage density and improve efficiency.

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Semiconductors

Japanese giant expands China chip packaging materials output amid AI boom

The investment underscores the growing importance of advanced packaging materials in the semiconductor supply chain.

Employees work on the chip packaging and testing line at JCET Semiconductor in Suqian, China’s Jiangsu province. Photo: VCG via Getty Images
Hangzhou

Opinion | Hangzhou is doubling down on tech – minus the viral hype

Beyond kickboxing robots and DeepSeek, the city is making a strategic pivot and betting on tech champions that build the infrastructure powering China’s next AI cycle.

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China’s private sector

China wants 5 innovative drugs with US$1b returns by 2030. Which might they be?

Beijing is attempting to have at least five pharmaceutical products with annual global sales of more than US$1 billion.

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Starlink

Chinese researchers make Arctic-to-Antarctic call using rival to Musk’s Starlink

The Guowang network’s deployment is at an early stage, with around 180 satellites in orbit compared to Starlink’s 11,000.

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The test was the first publicly reported demonstration of the Guowang constellation since satellite launches began in December 2024. Photo: CCTV
Semiconductors

Soaring component costs force laptop makers to rethink shift away from China

The predicted strategic pivot comes as the PC industry braces for subdued consumer demand driven by rising component prices.

Lenovo laptops are displayed at a Best Buy store in San Rafael, California, on June 7, 2024. Photo: Getty Images
Semiconductors

China state funds double down on Hua Hong in legacy chip push

State investors increase support for the contract chipmaker and a new Wuxi fab as Beijing strengthens domestic semiconductor supply.

US-China trade war

Chinese tech firm charged with smuggling ‘dual-use’ products out of country

As Beijing tightens export controls on strategic technologies, the case highlights risk of criminal prosecution for companies.

Artificial intelligence

Opinion | The 3-body problem with AI regulation

States, regulators and humans are increasingly struggling to keep powerful artificial intelligence under control.

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US-China relations

Pentagon unveils US$350 million quantum computing push as China rivalry grows

New initiative aims to strengthen US military capabilities as Washington and Beijing compete for leadership in advanced technology.

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Microsoft’s Majorana 2 quantum computing chip. The company is among those selected for the latest stage of a Pentagon programme to test advanced quantum computing technologies. Photo: Reuters
China-Latin America relations

China’s BYD considering lithium battery plant in Argentina, foreign minister says

Pablo Quirno spoke after meeting BYD’s executive vice-president Stella Li, as EV car maker seeks investment opportunities in Argentina.

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Artificial intelligence

Can China match up with Meta’s Muse in race to harness AI agents?

Analysts say agent harnesses could shift more of AI sector’s value away from foundational models and towards software layer.

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Alibaba

Alibaba’s AI cloud revenue set to surge over 50% after spending blitz: analysts

The Chinese tech giant is expected to post a more than 50 per cent jump in AI cloud revenue for the September quarter, according to analysts.

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Analysts expect Alibaba Cloud's profit margins to rise as it monetises its massive AI investments. Photo: Eugene Lee
Robotics

Video | Chinese humanoids star at Singapore’s first robot fight night

Organisers said while humans instead of AI calling the shots, the bouts offer ‘stress tests’ for advancing humanoid robots development.

Huawei

Huawei’s new US$3,500 trifold phone turns heads – but it’s not for everyone

The Mate XT 2 offers a tablet-sized screen at paperback weight – for an eye-watering price. Here’s what it’s actually like to use.

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China’s private sector

ByteDance heads first SCMP Plus Going Global 100 ranking

Social media giant beats out Foxconn Industrial, Shein and BYD in new SCMP Plus ranking of China’s global champions.

Private Chinese companies have been striving to build globally recognised brands as part of an official “going global” strategy, moving beyond their traditional role as low-cost assemblers. Photo: Shutterstock
China economy

SCMP Plus Going Global 100

Chinese companies are rushing into new markets around the world, building factories overseas and developing their own international brands. SCMP Plus ranks the companies leading the way in Chuhai, or Going Global.

SCMP Plus Going Global 100
US-China relations

‘China already has spies’ at US AI labs, former Anthropic researcher warns

Jacob Coxon alleges Beijing can close any technological gap with the US as it has ways to ‘steal our progress at any time and catch up’.

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US-China relations

US issues first outbound investment fine over Chinese robotics AI deal

Parent of Plug and Play Tech Centre fined US$200,000 for failing to report a roughly US$92,000 investment in Shanghai robotics AI firm.

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Science

China’s thorium-229 nuclear clock beats Vienna’s on stability, studies show

Chinese and European teams in ‘fierce but friendly’ competition to develop the next-generation timepieces.

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The crystal used in the Vienna team’s nuclear clock, pictured in its holder with the laser beam probing the thorium nuclei. Photo: TU Wien
Artificial intelligence

China’s open AI models are winning global users. Who is capturing the value?

Chinese AI labs face intense competition from platforms hosting their models, highlighting the challenge of turning widespread adoption into sustainable revenue.

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Chinese AI apps including DeepSeek, Qwen and Kimi are seen on an iPhone. Photo: Shutterstock
Artificial intelligence

Video | Data centre boom in Inner Mongolia

Cold, dry weather and mature green-energy infrastructure have powered the northern city of Ulanqab’s shift from potato-growing pastureland into a computing power heartland.

Electric & new energy vehicles

Renault’s plan to build Chinese EV motors in French town sparks job loss fears

As EU-China trade talks near, the Renault plant shows the hard reality of creating jobs in a shrinking industry, even with Chinese partners.

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