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Huawei Technologies
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.
A view of the Huawei booth and crowds at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Shanghai on Wednesday. Photo: AFP
Artificial intelligence

China bets on ‘air-space-ground-sea’ networks for future AI infrastructure

Executives at MWC Shanghai say next phase needs to encompass both the skies and oceans to meet skyrocketing demand for AI computing.

Mainland China

Huawei partners win big as China Telecom snaps up servers for self-reliance

Semiconductors

How the ASML China EUV saga points to tougher reality for country’s chip sector

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World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos

‘China Opportunity 2.0’: Li Qiang pitches alternative narrative at Summer Davos

The Chinese premier made the speech at the opening plenary of the 17th Annual Meeting of the New Champions in Dalian.

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Chinese Premier Li Qiang speaks at Summer Davos on Wednesday. Photo: Handout
Semiconductors

As ByteDance goes all in on AI, are Chinese chip start-ups poised to win big?

TikTok owner’s expanding spending could benefit a few second-tier domestic chipmakers, with Iluvatar CoreX in pole position, analysts say.

US-China relations

Huawei CFO Meng’s admissions can be used against company at criminal trial

The Chinese telecoms executive admitted the firm illegally conducted business in Iran as part of a 2021 deal to dismiss charges she faced.

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US-China relations

Opinion | The West must reckon with the reality of China’s rise

Beijing’s emergence as a major power must be navigated with wisdom and respect, rather than framed as a threat that needs to be contained.

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Illustration: Craig Stephens
Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia signs construction, smart-city deals with Chinese firms

Urban development deals with partners including Huawei and ByteDance underscore growing cooperation between Riyadh and Beijing.

Artificial intelligence

Can Chinese silicon replace Nvidia? Here are 5 AI models trained on local chips

A growing number of Chinese AI labs are experimenting with shifting earlier model training phases onto domestic chips.

Semiconductors

Can Huawei’s ‘chip queen’ help China beat the US tech blockade?

He Tingbo says her epiphany came from an ancient irrigation system in Sichuan province, built without modern machinery or electricity.

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Illustration by Henry Wong
China-Latin America relations

Exclusive | Huawei considering deploying Ascend AI chips in Latin America, cloud chief says

Ascend processors are central to Beijing’s effort to build a self-reliant AI industry and reduce dependence on US technology.

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Mark Chen, president of Huawei Cloud Latin America, speaks at Web Summit Rio in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Photo: Paul Devlin/Web Summit via Sportsfile
Smartphones

Huawei arms HarmonyOS with 2,000 AI agents in challenge to Apple

HarmonyOS 7 introduces an agent-friendly architecture and upgraded AI assistant as Huawei seeks to capitalise on Apple’s China AI gap.

Semiconductors

Can Huawei’s breakthrough help China’s chip design software firms catch US rivals?

Domestic chip design software vendors embrace Huawei’s Tau Scaling Law, but analysts caution that breaking US dominance is far from easy.

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DeepSeek

Letters | What DeepSeek’s US$7 billion fundraise means for Hong Kong

Readers discuss an international gateway for China’s AI ecosystem, energy-efficient AI models, a crackdown on distracted driving, and today’s Hong Kong.

People try out DeepSeek’s AI model in the Wensan Digital Life Block in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province in 2025. Photo: Xinhua
Artificial intelligence

Apple debuts Siri AI at WWDC: what is China missing out on?

For most of the world, a public beta of Siri AI will be coming out later this year for devices set to English.

Apple CEO Tim Cook delivers his last keynote address at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in Cupertino, California, on Monday. Photo: Getty Images/AFP
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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China stock market

AI effect vaults China’s Zhongji Innolight to top of stock benchmark

Maker of optical modules surpasses CATL in weighting thanks to off-the-charts demand from Alphabet, Amazon, Meta and Huawei.

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China-Latin America relations

Opinion | China’s economic inroads in Latin America are hitting political walls

China’s economic gains in the Americas are real, but Donald Trump’s return to the White House shows that political success is another story.

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Tencent

WeChat to take commands from AI assistants in major shift for Tencent

Phone makers including Huawei, Honor, Xiaomi, Oppo, and Vivo set to support feature that reverses past reluctance to open the super app.

Semiconductors

‘Not afraid’: TSMC brushes off mainland chip rivals amid AI boom

Wei’s comments come as mainland foundries expand mature-node capacity and Huawei pushes alternative chip-scaling ideas under US sanctions.

Artificial intelligence

Hong Kong unveils HKGAI-V3 model built on domestic tech and DeepSeek V4

Agent Workshop operated stably for up to 28 hours without interruption in a single session to produce a research report.

Guo Yike, provost of HKUST and director of HKGAI, delivers remarks at the launch event on Wednesday. Photo: Dickson Lee
DeepSeek

China’s DeepSeek nears US$7 billion haul in first-ever funding round

DeepSeek’s founder and CEO Liang Wenfeng is reportedly committing around 20 billion yuan of his own capital.

DeepSeek long rejected external funding to focus on pursuit of artificial general intelligence. Photo: AFP
SCMP Highlights

Chip prodigy returns to China, hybrid crop grown in desert: 7 science highlights

From the world’s first parallel processor to doubts over Elon Musk’s Starship, here are some highlights from SCMP’s recent science reporting.

Smartphones

Huawei to ship more units as price surges dent China’s smartphone sales: report

As higher memory prices raise costs for China’s handset makers, a research firm predicted Huawei would be the only domestic brand to increase shipments.

Semiconductors

How US export curbs are forcing China to redesign its AI chip industry

China’s tech giants are pursuing ASICs, a type of custom chip, over generic GPUs dominated by American giants like Nvidia.

China’s AI chipmakers are battling to forge a self-reliant silicon ecosystem. Photo: Shutterstock Images
China technology

Editorial | US pressure has only helped make China’s tech giants stronger

Huawei can now bypass ASML’s technology to make the advanced chips that the US has barred from export to China. This has become a familiar story.

Huawei plans to scale up production of chips with transistor density equivalent to 1.4-nanometre processes by 2031. Photo: Shutterstock
Semiconductors

Is Huawei’s new chip scaling law a true breakthrough, or mere hype?

Company says 3D design can deliver world-beating chips without the best chipmaking gear, rewriting the playbook for China’s tech future.

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Semiconductors

Wingtech says core of Nexperia’s China unit now based on mainland

The statement comes amid escalation in the Nexperia conflict, as Wingtech files a lawsuit in China against chip firm.

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