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Get the latest on China’s push for semiconductor innovation, as the nation strives for self-reliance in this critical technology.
A visitor views China’s 100,000-card AI supercluster Sugon 8000 during the World Artificial Intelligence Conference on July 20 in Shanghai. Photo: VCG via Getty Images
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China uses 100,000 home-grown AI chips to build leading weather forecast system

The Sugon 8,000 system can predict weather 10 days in advance, bringing the country closer to its ambitious forecasting goals.

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Science

Semiconductor leap: China looks to ‘2D chip’ with 1,000-fold growth speed

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China-US team’s feat could ‘open entirely new avenues’ in semiconductors

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Science

Could China’s ion implanter ‘scalpel’ carve out secure chip supply chains?

The technology is central to some forms of semiconductor manufacturing and dominated by overseas players.

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The China Institute of Atomic Energy says it has developed the nation’s first high-energy hydrogen ion implanter called the POWER-750H. Photo: Handout
Artificial intelligence

Huawei-style ‘chip stacking’ seen as a path for China to rival Nvidia’s GPUs

With US curbs biting, experts say near-memory computing and chip stacking could narrow the AI hardware gap with Nvidia.

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‘Historic’: Chinese team makes world’s first 2D industrial chip for military use

The chips continue to function even when exposed to high levels of gamma radiation and could have a range of strategic and military uses.

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China technology

Opinion | Techno-nationalism is now the critical battlefront in geopolitics

The assumption that technology is a neutral force driving shared progress is giving way to a reality of competition and contest.

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The United States has imposed restrictions on advanced chip exports and equipment, while China has tightened its control of critical minerals, including gallium and germanium that are crucial in chipmaking. Photo: Shutterstock
US-China trade war

How China used rare earths to turn on the US chip tap again

Washington tried to slow Chinese AI progress with export bans, a tactic Beijing later employed to regain some ground.

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Huawei

Huawei, SMIC struggle to advance chips to 5-nm level, MateBook shows: report

Huawei’s newly released MateBook Fold laptop runs on another 7-nm Kirin chip made by SMIC, as the Mate 60 Pro smartphone did two years ago.

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Electric & new energy vehicles

Exclusive | SemiDrive to supply cockpit chips in European EVs as Chinese firms go global

‘Striving to be a top global chip supplier, we need to expand from the China market to the global market,’ general manager Eugene Wang says.

Visitors look at a display at the booth of SemiDrive Technology at the 2023 Shanghai Auto Show. Photo: Getty Images
Huawei

Huawei claims better AI training method than DeepSeek using own chips

Huawei’s progress in AI model architecture could prove significant, as the company seeks to reduce its reliance on US technologies.

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Huawei researchers say they have improved on an AI training method used by DeepSeek. Photo: EPA-EFE
Science

World’s first 1-nanometre RISC-V chip made in China with 2D materials

China’s chip industry has reached a major milestone after scientists developed the world’s most complex semiconductor microprocessor.

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Science

Largest gallium wafer: how China leads on next-gen semiconductor tech

A world-first N-polar GaN wafer created by Chinese scientists could be a game changer for the semiconductor industry.

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Science

Chinese scientists build world’s first AI chip made of carbon

Chinese researchers have developed a chip that it could be a game-changer in modern computing.

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Chinese scientists have used carbon nanotubes (CNTs) to create a new type of microchip which could revolutionise the future of computing. Photo: Shutterstock
Semiconductors

Alibaba’s research arm launches a high-performance RISC-V chip for servers

Damo Academy announced its new server-grade C930, along with plans for future XuanTie chips that include AI acceleration.

China has rushed to develop the open-source RISC-V architecture as it tries to move away from reliance on foreign chip technologies. Photo: Shutterstock
Semiconductors

Taking a RISC: Hong Kong puts weight behind China’s open-source chips bet

Amid a flurry of RISC-V-focused conferences in China, Hong Kong is promoting research in the open-source chip standard.

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China cracks GaN chip defect mystery, boosting tech war edge

Minimising semiconductor flaws will expand China’s price gap with US for advanced chips used in electronic warfare, aerospace.

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Top chip designer Sun Nan leaves US and finds ‘room to play’ in China

Tsinghua University highlights professor who has returned to China to train next generation of chip experts and tackle tech problems.

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Professor and chip expert Sun Nan has returned to his alma mater, Tsinghua University in Beijing, after more than a decade at institutions in the US. Photo: Handout
China society

China’s netizens warned that shutting down scientists’ views may hobble progress

Renowned scientists such as physicist He Zuoxiu and Fields Medal winner Yau Shing-Tung have been subjected to online attacks.

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Semiconductors

China boosts quantum computer production with self-developed chips

Origin Quantum, a research firm added to the US trade blacklist this year, is expanding its superconducting quantum computer production.

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Semiconductors

China claims breakthrough that could clear chip-design hurdle

A Wuhan-based lab has announced a ‘milestone’ that could help China overcome restraints imposed by traditional chip-design technology.

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A state-funded lab in China has announced a breakthrough in chip-design technology. Photo: Shutterstock
Semiconductors

Chinese memory chip maker YMTC achieves design breakthrough despite US sanctions

Chinese flash memory giant YMTC has made a small leap in its chip design architecture, thanks to closer ties with domestic semiconductor tool providers.

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YMTC has narrowed the gap with advanced products in the market in terms of “bit density”. Photo: Shutterstock Images
US-China tech war

China touts home-grown chip machines amid self-sufficiency drive

Technology ministry claims ‘significant technological breakthroughs’ in deep-ultraviolet lithography by unnamed companies.

Semiconductors

China’s chip making shows progress with new EUV patent despite US sanctions

The patent from Shanghai Micro Electronics Equipment is still under review, but producing EUV tools in China would break a monopoly held by ASML.

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Science

How Chinese engineers helped build the US semiconductor empire: a timeline

US domination of the field of advanced electronics has been propelled in part by many Chinese academics.

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Chinese scientists and engineers have played a vital role in America’s leadership in the field of advanced electronics. Photo: Shutterstock
Science

Could an artificial sapphire insulator be the bedrock of next-gen chip technology?

Researchers in China are tackling the problem of how to create effective current barriers as circuits become more complex and thinner.

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Traditional chips, also known as integrated circuits, feature complex, interconnected structures on a silicon wafer substrate. Photo: Shutterstock
Semiconductors

China could reach chip tool self-sufficiency this summer, industry veteran says

AMEC CEO Gerald Yin said China is on the verge of basic self-sufficiency in chip-making equipment, but is behind 5 to 10 years in quality and reliability.

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Science

Have Chinese scientists cracked code to making ultra-thin semiconductor material?

Research by Chinese team addresses key barrier to reducing the size of traditional silicon-based chips.

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