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Huawei Technologies is one of the world's largest smartphone makers and telecommunications equipment providers. The company also sells a range of consumer electronics from smart home devices and appliances to rooftop solar products and electric vehicles. The company's 5G equipment has been banned outright in a number of countries – including the United States, Canada, Australia, Japan, Sweden and the UK.

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23 August, 2024

Huawei Technologies launched its Mate XT, the world’s first trifold smartphone, in September. Photo: CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images

Smartphones

China’s foldable smartphone shipment growth slows amid global dip in demand

Huawei remains the bestselling foldable smartphone vendor in China, accounting for around half of total domestic shipments.

23 Dec 2024 - 9:00PM

Artificial intelligence

The ‘AI Olympics’ gets new hurdles in Canada as US-China tech war plays out

21 Dec 2024 - 12:00PMvideocam

Tencent

Tencent and smartphone maker Honor team up on AI while Apple lags behind

20 Dec 2024 - 8:54PM

Cybersecurity

US investigates China-founded internet router maker TP-Link

Investigators fear that TP-Link is using ‘the Huawei playbook’, according to people familiar with the probe.

19 Dec 2024 - 10:17AM

A TP-Link smart Wi-fi plug. Photo: Matt Haldane

Semiconductors

Huawei’s new Mate 70 smartphone chip is ‘not a major redesign’, report finds

The findings contradict enthusiasm on Chinese social media, where users claimed the new Kirin 9020 had a performance boost of 30 per cent.

12 Dec 2024 - 9:00PM

War and conflict

Opinion | US presidential transition is the thread tying world’s crises together

As US allies face mounting challenges and tensions rise with adversaries, Joe Biden and Donald Trump must work together to manage uncertainties.

12 Dec 2024 - 8:24AMvideocam

Smartphones

Huawei premium smartphone shipments surge, as Apple leads segment in China

Mainland shipments of Huawei’s premium-priced smartphones – handsets that cost more than US$600 – rose 34 per cent in the third quarter.

6 Dec 2024 - 8:30PM

Apple and Huawei are the two-biggest vendors in China’s high-end smartphone segment. Photo: Shutterstock

US-China tech war

US exempts some Chinese firms from chip curbs for Japan, sources say

Washington has excluded some of China’s largest semiconductor companies from its latest export restrictions.

7 Dec 2024 - 10:55AM

US-China tech war

Republican China panel chair slams US chip curbs for Huawei ‘loopholes’

The rules effectively deny all shipments to SMIC’s facility in Beijing, but allow ‘case-by-case’ sales of specific items to SMIC in Shanghai.

6 Dec 2024 - 12:00PM

US-China relations

Trump’s export controls hurting China could rankle US allies: analysts

Sanctions targeting Beijing’s hi-tech progress anticipated as report finds Washington has increasingly used such mechanisms in recent years.

6 Dec 2024 - 5:55AMvideocam

The American and Chinese flags adorn a microchip, symbolic of the sensitivity around semiconductor companies in the US-China tech war. Photo: Shutterstock

Semiconductors

New US chip sanctions to hit Chinese tool makers, but Japan, Netherlands exempt

New US restrictions will hit two dozen semiconductor companies, two investment firms and over 100 chipmaking tool makers, sources told Reuters.

2 Dec 2024 - 4:00PM

An employee packages semiconductor power devices for export at a workshop in Fuzhou on November 22. Photo: VCG via Getty Images

Smartphones

Huawei’s Mate 70 sales affected by ‘modest’ chip, no Android support: analysts

Mate 70 smartphone sales are expected to reach 3 million units this fourth quarter, according to TechInsights.

1 Dec 2024 - 4:16PM

China economy

Opinion | In a world of tariff threats, China opts to share green tech dividends

China’s ‘new trio’ of EVs, lithium-ion batteries and solar panels represents the trickling down of tech dividends to people across the world.

1 Dec 2024 - 9:30AMvideocam

US-China tech war

New US chip sanctions to deal fresh blow to China’s self-reliance push

The impact on the Chinese chip industry would be significant if major domestic suppliers are blacklisted, sources say.

28 Nov 2024 - 12:29PM

China’s chip industry is bracing for new US export controls as soon as this week. Photo: Reuters

Smartphones

Huawei has global ambitions for ‘pure blood’ OS, but challenges abound

The Chinese tech giant says all of its new devices in 2025 will be equipped with HarmonyOS Next, its home-grown Android rival.

28 Nov 2024 - 7:00AM

A Huawei store at the Wangfujing shopping area in Beijing. Photo: AFP

Artificial intelligence

Hong Kong’s AI efforts link China, rest of the world amid geopolitical tensions

Chief technology officer at Hong Kong Productivity Council says city remains an important launching pad for international AI firms.

27 Nov 2024 - 7:00AM

Smartphones

Huawei’s launches ‘most powerful’ Mate phone but keeps its chip a secret

As the industry looks to see if Huawei has again advanced China-made semiconductors, the company instead focused on its home-grown operating system.

26 Nov 2024 - 5:30PM

Smartphones

Huawei aims for 100,000 apps on HarmonyOS Next as it gears up for Mate 70 launch

HarmonyOS Next, currently under a public beta period, had over 15,000 native apps and services as of October 22.

25 Nov 2024 - 5:30PM

Customers try out smartphones at a Huawei store in Nanjing, East China’s Jiangsu province, November 1, 2024. Photo: CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images

Apple

Apple’s Cook makes third trip to China in 2024 amid iPhone slump

The CEO lauded the importance of Apple’s Chinese partners at the International Supply Chain Expo in Beijing.

25 Nov 2024 - 3:04PM

Smartphones

Oppo brings back premium Find X smartphones to global markets

The Chinese Android handset maker is making a renewed push in the premium segment in Southeast Asia and western Europe.

23 Nov 2024 - 9:00AM

Artificial intelligence

Huawei’s AI chips fill Nvidia-sized hole in medical research in Hong Kong

An AI research centre under the Chinese Academy of Sciences is using Huawei chips to power its Cares Copilot model that helps with surgery.

22 Nov 2024 - 9:00PM

The Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics says that Huawei chips have proven satisfactory for the lab’s research needs. Photo: Shutterstock

US-China relations

Opinion | To respond to a Trump trade war 2.0, China has a few tools at its disposal

With the US poised to escalate the trade war, China must focus on boosting self-sufficiency and diversifying its options beyond the West.

22 Nov 2024 - 8:12AMvideocam

China trade

China races to stockpile US chips before Trump ramps up sanctions

As more US tech curbs look likely in second Trump term, China’s imports of made-in-America integrated circuits have surged by 60 per cent.

22 Nov 2024 - 8:59AMvideocam

US-China relations

Opinion | Could Trump’s popularity in China prompt him to temper the trade war?

Beijing’s sensitivity to public opinion and Trump’s weakness for flattery could have big implications for US-China trade.

21 Nov 2024 - 9:28PMvideocam

Smartphones

Apple’s iPhone sales fall during China’s Singles’ Day shopping festival: report

The event’s two-week sales period saw ‘a double-digit, year-on-year decline’ in iPhone sales amid stiff competition from Chinese rivals.

21 Nov 2024 - 6:00PM

Apple

Apple reveals App Store revenue share in China as Huawei rivalry grows

The US giant says most of its App Store revenues in China are paid to developers and companies.

20 Nov 2024 - 8:44PM

People line up outside an Apple store in Beijing as the iPhone 16 goes on sale in September. Photo: Reuters

Smartphones

Huawei’s foldable smartphone sales up 97% in third quarter

The surge was mainly on the back of Huawei’s Mate X5, which was launched last September and has remained the top-selling foldable model since.

20 Nov 2024 - 7:46PM

Semiconductors

Beijing chip forum attendees mull impact of TSMC block, second Trump term

At the 21st China International Semiconductor Expo, industry experts weighed in on the challenges and opportunities ahead in domestic chipmaking.

20 Nov 2024 - 9:00AM

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