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Ren Zhengfei

Ren Zhengfei
The latest news and updates on Ren Zhengfei, the visionary founder and CEO of Huawei Technologies, a global leader in telecommunications equipment and smartphones. A former engineer in the Chinese People’s Liberation Army, he established Huawei in 1987, steering its remarkable growth to become a multinational technology giant. His leadership, often described as disciplined and paternalistic, has fostered a culture of dedication and innovation, with a strong emphasis on research and development. While acknowledging Huawei’s Ascend chips currently lag behind US counterparts, he remains confident in China’s path to technological self-sufficiency. His strategic direction has been pivotal to Huawei’s international success.
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Artificial intelligence

Sea change: China narrows AI gap with US 3 years after ChatGPT shock

The turning point came when DeepSeek released its V3 and R1 models, which were on par with OpenAI’s GPT and Meta’s Llama models at the time.

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Huawei

Huawei bolsters AI ambitions with foundation model unit, recruits global talent

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Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei sees divergence in US and China AI strategies

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Artificial intelligence

Tech war: Huawei bets on AI tech to squeeze more performance from GPUs

Huawei to debut AI infrastructure software that it says can lift GPU and NPU use to about 70 per cent, cutting China’s Nvidia reliance.

Huawei’s CloudMatrix 384 system with Ascend 910 AI processors are displayed at the company’s booth at the World Internet Conference. Photo: Reuters
Artificial intelligence

Nvidia’s Huang says China is ‘nanoseconds’ behind in AI chips

Jensen Huang, head of Nvidia, says China is close behind the US in AI chips, marking a stark contrast to Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei’s views earlier this year.

Artificial intelligence

How Huawei and DeepSeek are tending the garden of China’s AI aspirations

Amid growing AI rivalry with the US, the two companies are leading China’s drive to shake off the nation’s dependence on Nvidia processors.

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Huawei’s Ren Zhengfei, Dongfeng Motor’s Yang Qing talk deeper EV collaboration

Dongfeng and Huawei ‘will collaborate in product definition, intelligent technologies and marketing’, the state-owned carmaker says.

Huawei Technologies founder and CEO Ren Zhengfei says the fundamental principle of the automotive industry is to build quality vehicles. Photo: Kyodo
Huawei

Human-level AI to propel tech progress in the next decade: Huawei

The Chinese tech giant also projects a 100,000-fold increase in global computing power by 2035.

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China Future Tech briefing

Semiconductors | China chipmakers seek to loosen Nvidia’s AI stranglehold

Huawei and Cambricon are among Chinese companies trying to challenge Nvidia as export bans on the chip giant’s most advanced processors stoke government efforts to pare reliance on US technology.

Artificial intelligence

My Take | DeepSeek’s data format innovation fans fresh hopes of more disruption

DeepSeek’s incremental progress is significant as it has created a new trajectory for China to achieve AI supremacy.

The stock market frenzy in China last week was akin to January when DeepSeek sent shock waves across the US equity market. Photo: Shutterstock Images
Semiconductors

Bargaining chip: Nvidia’s efforts to please US and China get harder

The world’s most valuable company by market cap finds itself in the centre of trade negotiations between Beijing and Washington.

Nvidia has become a bargaining chip in US-China trade negotiations. Illustration: Lau Ka-kuen
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Huawei’s Ren Zhengfei shares EV sector insights with Changan Automobile chairman

The meeting reflects how Chinese industry leaders look to Ren for possible direction, as Trump’s tariffs disrupt global trade.

US-China tech war

Nvidia chips in China mark tactical shift in US tech war

Jensen Huang praised China’s AI developers after convincing the White House to scrap an export ban that had hobbled Nvidia’s ability to compete with Huawei in its home market.

Semiconductors

Stanford-educated expert leads new semiconductor school in China

Wuhan University’s School of Integrated Circuits has teamed up with China’s top memory chipmaker to overcome US tech curbs.

Wuhan University appoints renowned semiconductor expert Liu Sheng as the head of its new School of Integrated Circuits. Photo: Handout
Artificial intelligence

China catching up fast with US in algorithms: ex-Microsoft AI head

While the US is still far ahead in AI chip technology, China is following very closely in algorithms, says computer scientist Harry Shum.

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Harry Shum Heung-yeung, former head of AI and research at Microsoft, speaks at an economic summit hosted by the HKU Business School on Friday. Photo: Handout
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