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Siemens

Founded in 1847, Siemens is a German conglomerate and Europe’s biggest electronics and electrical engineering company. Its products range from gas turbines to trains ultrasound machines and hearing aids.

Chairman / President

Jim Hagemann Snabe

CEO / Managing Director

Roland Busch

CFO / Finance Director

Ralf P. Thomas

Industry

Conglomerate

Website

siemens.com

Headquarters address

Werner-von-Siemens-Strasse 1, 80333 Munich, Germany

Stock Code

XETRA:SIE, NYSE:SIEGY

Year founded

1847

The Xiluodu Dam and hydropower station is the third-largest in China and the fourth-largest in the world. Photo: Shutterstock

Science

Chinese mega dam stops using Western industrial chips over security concerns

Shift from Siemens and Schneider reflects concerns over industrial control system vulnerabilities, including computer worms like Stuxnet.

14 Aug 2025 - 11:00AM

Semiconductors

Tech war: China approves Synopsys’ acquisition of Ansys after US lifts EDA ban

14 Jul 2025 - 6:30PM

Artificial intelligence

Global AI conference in Shanghai to showcase China’s prowess, vision

10 Jul 2025 - 8:00PM

Semiconductors

Chip design software firms climb as US lifts curbs on China exports

The export resumption means Synopsys and Cadence will only lose one month of revenue in the current quarter.

4 Jul 2025 - 9:54AM

The headquarters of Synopsys in Sunnyvale, California. Photo: Reuters

US-China trade war

China, US ease export curbs but Trump’s Vietnam deal risks blowback: analysts

Progress after London talks signals a thaw, but analysts say Washington’s crackdown on transshipments could reignite tensions.

4 Jul 2025 - 6:48AM

US-China tech war

Tech war: US lifts export control of chip design software to China

Siemens, Synopsys and Cadence – three of the world’s largest EDA software developers – are set to resume sales to China.

3 Jul 2025 - 5:45PM

Alibaba

Alibaba Cloud to bring AI capabilities to global data centres this year

The company operates more than two dozen data centres worldwide, including two in the US and one in London.

24 Jun 2025 - 5:00PMvideocam

Liu Weiguang, senior vice-president of Alibaba Cloud, speaks on stage during a company event in Shenzhen on Tuesday. Photo: Handout

US-China relations

Opinion | US-China trade war goes nuclear with Trump’s chip software ban

Sweeping ban, albeit hard to enforce, threatens to kneecap China’s semiconductor ambitions and endanger its national security.

4 Jun 2025 - 8:30PMvideocam

Semiconductors

US chip design software firm Synopsys halts China sales, services

Synopsys, along with Cadence and Siemens’s Mentor Graphics, controls more than 70 per cent of China’s electronic-design-automation market.

31 May 2025 - 11:07AMvideocam

European Union

Opinion | Brussels should listen to Europe’s CEOs who want closer China ties

Amid a hail of US tariffs, a strong showing of CEOs from Europe and UK at China Development Forum reflects a desire to stay invested in China.

30 Mar 2025 - 4:30PMvideocam

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen holds a press conference on a defence package aimed at securing Ukraine and Europe, in Brussels, Belgium, on March 4. Photo: EPA-EFE

Diplomacy

Opinion | In world of sound bites, leaders need a forum to engage with candour

We must reassess our levels of engagement in a world dominated by sound bites and social media. There is transformative power in genuine dialogue.

7 Feb 2025 - 9:30AMvideocam

People watch US President Donald Trump speak at the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, on January 23. Most conferences adopt a one-directional format, with speakers on stage addressing a passive audience. Photo: Xinhua

Science

‘Milestone’ for China’s gas turbine technology as it closes gap with the West

First domestically built 300MW heavy-duty gas turbine passes ignition test in Shanghai.

9 Oct 2024 - 11:21PM

Electric & new energy vehicles

In China, Germany’s Olaf Scholz seeks ‘open and fair’ competition, cooperation

Scholz’s trip comes as the European Union is undertaking an anti-subsidy investigation into Chinese electric vehicles (EVs), and as criticism grows in the United States about Chinese overcapacity.

15 Apr 2024 - 6:59PMvideocam

China-EU relations

Exclusive | China-Germany ties are resilient despite EU push to ‘de-risk’: Beijing envoy

In an exclusive interview, ambassador Wu Ken says both Berlin and Brussels had greater understanding of China as more in Europe reflect on the ’risks brought by de-risking’.

26 Mar 2024 - 8:44PMvideocam

China’s ambassador to Germany, Wu Ken, says entrepreneurs in Europe have told him “China’s development is an opportunity rather than a challenge – giving up the Chinese market is tantamount to saying goodbye to opportunities and growth”. Photo: DPA

Science

China creates electric power in its western deserts equal to half that in US

Booming solar, wind farms in Gobi can upend the AI race between China and the US, industrial expert says.

20 Feb 2024 - 11:00PMvideocam

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Solar panels in the Ningxia Tengger Desert New Energy Base in China’s northern Ningxia region are among renewable energy facilities in northwestern China. Photo: AFP

Huawei

Nokia set to exit joint venture with Huawei amid US-China tensions

The Finnish telecoms equipment giant will sell its majority stake in TD Tech to a group that includes state-owned entities, pending final government approval.

22 Jan 2024 - 2:20PM

Semiconductors

Top chip design tool makers see growth ahead in China’s car market

Executives from chip design software firms commented at Semicon China last week about China’s leading position in electric cars.

3 Jul 2023 - 8:00AMvideocam

Cybersecurity

EU countries, lawmakers reach data rule deal targeting Big Tech

The EU on Tuesday agreed on rules that govern how Big Tech and other companies use European consumer and corporate data, with safeguards against non-EU governments gaining illegal access.

28 Jun 2023 - 1:34PM

European Union industry chief Thierry Breton speaks during a press conference in Brussels, Belgium, on June 15, 2023. Photo: Christophe Licoppe/European Commission/dpa

China-EU relations

Opinion | A German anti-China policy? Don’t hold your breath

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock may be taking a hard line on China, but Chancellor Olaf Scholz will have the final say. Scholz is aware that the economic reality simply does not allow him to meet Baerbock and her party’s demands on China.

21 Apr 2023 - 4:19AMvideocam

China-EU relations

Explainer | What is the state of trade relations between China and Germany?

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz will lead a business delegation to China this week against a backdrop of worsening relations between Beijing and Berlin and growing calls to reduce reliance on the world’s No 2 economy.

4 Nov 2022 - 5:56AMvideocam

Ukraine war

More gas cuts? Gazprom says return of Nord Stream turbine is ‘impossible’

The Russian energy giant blamed Western sanctions over the Ukraine war, amid suspicions that Moscow is looking for an excuse to throttle fuel supplies to Europe.

4 Aug 2022 - 8:21AM

A turbine for the Nord Stream 1 pipeline is displayed at the plant of Siemens Energy in Muelheim an der Ruhr in western Germany on Wednesday. Photo: AFP

Russia

Gazprom to cut Nord Stream gas deliveries to Europe

The supplies from the Portovaya compressor station will be slashed from 7am Moscow time on Wednesday, the company said. The German government said there was no justification for the announcement.

26 Jul 2022 - 8:24AM

Pipe systems and shut-off devices at the Nord Stream 1 Baltic Sea pipeline. Photo: DPA

Canada

Kyiv ‘disappointed’ after Canada exempts Russian gas turbine from sanctions

The turbine, which is used on the Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline linking Russia to Germany, is in Canada for repairs and was initially held back as part of sanctions imposed on Russia.

11 Jul 2022 - 8:15AMvideocam

Renewable Hydropower

Video | China’s first hydropower station

7 Jul 2022 - 9:00AM

Greater Bay Area

Meet the new CFO who says appliance maker Midea is really a Xiaomi rival

Midea CFO Jeremy Choy, a former Hong Kong banker, says Midea is a technology company that competes in smart homes, robotics and industrial automation.

4 Nov 2021 - 10:23AMvideocam

China-EU relations

Siemens ‘still committed’ to China after CEO speaks out against Beijing

On allegations of human rights abuses in Xinjiang, CEO Joe Kaeser says ‘we should neither tolerate all of this in our companies nor accept it without consequences’.

14 Sep 2020 - 9:51PMvideocam

Siemens CEO Joe Kaeser says “as long as Beijing adheres to the one country, two systems agreement, German business can handle it”. Photo: Reuters

Xinjiang

Big name brands using Uygur ‘forced labour’: Australia think tank

Google, Microsoft, Siemens, Sony and Adidas are among the 83 global brands named by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute in its report.

2 Mar 2020 - 8:06PM

GlaxoSmithKline

SEC policy expected to encourage whistle-blowers in Asia

15 Feb 2014 - 2:05AM

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Siemens

Chinese mega dam stops using Western industrial chips over security concerns

Shift from Siemens and Schneider reflects concerns over industrial control system vulnerabilities, including computer worms like Stuxnet.

Tech war: China approves Synopsys’ acquisition of Ansys after US lifts EDA ban

Global AI conference in Shanghai to showcase China’s prowess, vision

Chip design software firms climb as US lifts curbs on China exports

The export resumption means Synopsys and Cadence will only lose one month of revenue in the current quarter.

China, US ease export curbs but Trump’s Vietnam deal risks blowback: analysts

Progress after London talks signals a thaw, but analysts say Washington’s crackdown on transshipments could reignite tensions.

Tech war: US lifts export control of chip design software to China

Siemens, Synopsys and Cadence – three of the world’s largest EDA software developers – are set to resume sales to China.

Alibaba Cloud to bring AI capabilities to global data centres this year

The company operates more than two dozen data centres worldwide, including two in the US and one in London.

.css-1m2rp1p{color:#34b8b5;}Opinion | US-China trade war goes nuclear with Trump’s chip software ban

Sweeping ban, albeit hard to enforce, threatens to kneecap China’s semiconductor ambitions and endanger its national security.

US chip design software firm Synopsys halts China sales, services

Synopsys, along with Cadence and Siemens’s Mentor Graphics, controls more than 70 per cent of China’s electronic-design-automation market.

Opinion | Brussels should listen to Europe’s CEOs who want closer China ties

Amid a hail of US tariffs, a strong showing of CEOs from Europe and UK at China Development Forum reflects a desire to stay invested in China.

Opinion | In world of sound bites, leaders need a forum to engage with candour

We must reassess our levels of engagement in a world dominated by sound bites and social media. There is transformative power in genuine dialogue.

‘Milestone’ for China’s gas turbine technology as it closes gap with the West

First domestically built 300MW heavy-duty gas turbine passes ignition test in Shanghai.

In China, Germany’s Olaf Scholz seeks ‘open and fair’ competition, cooperation

Scholz’s trip comes as the European Union is undertaking an anti-subsidy investigation into Chinese electric vehicles (EVs), and as criticism grows in the United States about Chinese overcapacity.

.css-sioo19{color:#c79a00;}Exclusive | China-Germany ties are resilient despite EU push to ‘de-risk’: Beijing envoy

In an exclusive interview, ambassador Wu Ken says both Berlin and Brussels had greater understanding of China as more in Europe reflect on the ’risks brought by de-risking’.

China creates electric power in its western deserts equal to half that in US

Booming solar, wind farms in Gobi can upend the AI race between China and the US, industrial expert says.

Nokia set to exit joint venture with Huawei amid US-China tensions

The Finnish telecoms equipment giant will sell its majority stake in TD Tech to a group that includes state-owned entities, pending final government approval.

Top chip design tool makers see growth ahead in China’s car market

Executives from chip design software firms commented at Semicon China last week about China’s leading position in electric cars.

EU countries, lawmakers reach data rule deal targeting Big Tech

The EU on Tuesday agreed on rules that govern how Big Tech and other companies use European consumer and corporate data, with safeguards against non-EU governments gaining illegal access.

Opinion | A German anti-China policy? Don’t hold your breath

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock may be taking a hard line on China, but Chancellor Olaf Scholz will have the final say. Scholz is aware that the economic reality simply does not allow him to meet Baerbock and her party’s demands on China.

Explainer | What is the state of trade relations between China and Germany?

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz will lead a business delegation to China this week against a backdrop of worsening relations between Beijing and Berlin and growing calls to reduce reliance on the world’s No 2 economy.

More gas cuts? Gazprom says return of Nord Stream turbine is ‘impossible’

The Russian energy giant blamed Western sanctions over the Ukraine war, amid suspicions that Moscow is looking for an excuse to throttle fuel supplies to Europe.

Gazprom to cut Nord Stream gas deliveries to Europe

The supplies from the Portovaya compressor station will be slashed from 7am Moscow time on Wednesday, the company said. The German government said there was no justification for the announcement.

Kyiv ‘disappointed’ after Canada exempts Russian gas turbine from sanctions

The turbine, which is used on the Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline linking Russia to Germany, is in Canada for repairs and was initially held back as part of sanctions imposed on Russia.

.css-rcruog{color:#C79A00;}Video | China’s first hydropower station

Meet the new CFO who says appliance maker Midea is really a Xiaomi rival

Midea CFO Jeremy Choy, a former Hong Kong banker, says Midea is a technology company that competes in smart homes, robotics and industrial automation.

Siemens ‘still committed’ to China after CEO speaks out against Beijing

On allegations of human rights abuses in Xinjiang, CEO Joe Kaeser says ‘we should neither tolerate all of this in our companies nor accept it without consequences’.

Big name brands using Uygur ‘forced labour’: Australia think tank

Google, Microsoft, Siemens, Sony and Adidas are among the 83 global brands named by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute in its report.

SEC policy expected to encourage whistle-blowers in Asia

Opinion | US-China trade war goes nuclear with Trump’s chip software ban

Exclusive | China-Germany ties are resilient despite EU push to ‘de-risk’: Beijing envoy

Video | China’s first hydropower station