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Monday 23 October 2023
US chip ban on China believed to see diminishing marginal effects
The tightened chip trade ban newly imposed by the US has cast a substantial shadow over major Chinese AI chip makers, potentially blocking their access to advanced chip manufacturing...
Friday 20 October 2023
Cambricon and Huawei forge divergent paths in AI chip development amid prolonged US blacklisting
The recent update to the US government's chip ban has raised concerns about its potential impact on Chinese chipmakers, particularly in the realm of high-performance computing (HPC)...
Thursday 19 October 2023
China's AI industry grapples with mixed prospects amid escalated US chip controls
With the Biden administration's heightened export controls on semiconductor chips to China, the Chinese AI industry finds itself in a mixed picture of some rejoicing and others facing...
Thursday 12 October 2023
RISC-V is becoming China's low-risk option amid chip war
The escalating trade war between China and the United States has led to a growing trend within China to pursue indigenous instruction set architectures (ISA). Recently, the RISC-V...
Monday 2 October 2023
How long could Huawei still rely on Arm IP licensing amid US chip bans and RISC-V rise?
For the SoftBank-backed Arm that just completed a blockbuster IPO in the US in mid-September, China is a critical market contributing a quarter of its annual revenues for fiscal 2023,...
Monday 25 September 2023
Canalys: Mainland China's cloud market grew moderately in Q2 2023
Cloud infrastructure services spending in mainland China reached US$8.7 billion in Q2 2023, with a year-on-year growth of 19%. This significant increase was primarily due to changes...
Wednesday 30 August 2023
Chinese chip companies accelerate RISC-V deployments
Amid the ongoing US-China tech war, Chinese companies, such as T-Head Semiconductor and StarFive Technology, are accelerating their development using the RISC-V architecture to avoid...
Thursday 13 July 2023
China's large AI models are in full bloom, headlined by its four tech giants
The emergence of ChatGPT at the end of 2022 propelled AI to new heights. Huawei rotating chairman Ken Hu believes that "AI, especially AGI (artificial general intelligence) has become...
Tuesday 20 June 2023
Chinese microLED display developer JBD receives investments from BYD, Geely, Alibaba
China-based Jade Bird Display (JBD) has quickly progressed its development of microLED technology and has completed two rounds of strategic funding, with investments from BYD, Geely,...
Monday 22 May 2023
Major carmakers, unicorn startups trimming software manpower to cut costs
Global autonomous vehicle unicorn startups and major carmakers have been on track to lay off employees in the underperforming departments since the second quarter of the year, especially...
Friday 5 May 2023
AIGC wave prompts major Chinese internet companies to speed chip development
With the rise of AI-generated content (AIGC) in 2023, major players in the tech sector are joining the ranks of AI chip manufacturing one after another. Not only are international...
Tuesday 25 April 2023
Chinese SSD controller vendors actively tapping enterprise market
China's SSD (solid-state drive) control chip suppliers, including DapuStor, are keen to tap into the enterprise-use SSD market with high-end controllers developed in house, aiming...
Tuesday 25 April 2023
TSMC lands advanced chip orders shifted from China
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has gained advanced chip orders shifted from Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC) and other China-based foundries, which...
Friday 21 April 2023
Challenges facing China's development of AI chatbots
Since Baidu pioneered China's homegrown development of ChatGPT-like AI chatbots with its Ernie Bot, several businesses have followed suit, including SenseTime's SenseNova and Alibaba...
Friday 14 April 2023
Terminal devices sales starting to show signs of turning around
There is a clear gap between upstream and downstream electronics and semiconductor players in terms of detectable market conditions, with the former slowing down capacity expansions...