Why US chip controls took a back seat at the Xi-Trump summit
There is little question that Jensen Huang and Lisa Su, the heads of US semiconductor chip giants Nvidia…
In Focus | As the US weighs restrictions on cloud computing, how will China’s AI sector adapt?
When Chinese artificial intelligence developers want to train their next-generation frontier models, they all face the same daunting…
In Focus | What’s a Northern Metropolis-like project doing in Malaysia? Lessons for Hong Kong?
Deep in the southern border zone of Johor, Malaysia, separated from Singapore by a narrow strait, a steady…
Punching above their weight: how China’s AI giants stretch each dollar in compute race
The massive gap in artificial intelligence spending between US and Chinese tech titans may not buy the advantage…
In Focus | A rural city, once known for livestock, now provides China’s AI computing fuel
For generations, Ulanqab – a city several hundred kilometres northwest of Beijing whose Mongolian name means “red cliff…
What is a supernode, and why does it matter for the China-US tech rivalry?
As the size of artificial intelligence models expands beyond 1 trillion parameters, a new concept is dominating the…
Alibaba targets Nvidia’s dominant software ecosystem with open-source AI stack
Alibaba Group Holding’s chip design unit, T-Head, has announced that it will open-source its proprietary software stack, marking…
Chinese chip start-up Biren bets on light-based ‘supernodes’ to match Nvidia
Chinese semiconductor design firm Biren Technology has unveiled its next-generation “supernode” solutions – systems designed to link thousands…
China smartphone shipments fall for fifth straight quarter as costs rise
By Che Pan and Eduardo Baptista BEIJING, July 14 (Reuters) – China’s smartphone shipments fell 4.3% to 66…
How Hong Kong is fighting to redefine its future with an institutional moat, wealth surge
For decades, warnings of Hong Kong’s terminal decline have arrived in periodic waves. When Stephen Roach, the former…
Chinese AI chip start-up exits stealth mode, bets on 3D stacking to bypass US controls
A Chinese artificial intelligence chip start-up led by industry veteran Wei Shaojun has emerged from stealth mode, joining…
China claims biggest AI model trained on local chips, as Meituan releases LongCat-2.0
As China attempts to move beyond using domestic chips solely for model inference, food delivery giant Meituan released…