China-made Chips

A year ago, Alibaba unveiled its first AI chip, the Hanguang 800, the most powerful AI reasoning chip at the time. The company recently shared an update on the Hanguang 800's progress nearly a year after its launch.

Qualcomm still led the global smartphone application processor (AP) market in the second quarter, but lost share to Huawei, according to a recent Counterpoint report.

Bai Chunli, President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said today that more than 300,000 Loongson 3A processors have been sold and the embedded Loongson chip has been successfully used in 10 BeiDou navigation satellites.

ZHITA, a sub-brand of China's top memory chipmaker Yangtze Memory, released two SSDs for the first time on September 10. Among the new products, one is the PC005 Active drive with PCIe technology and the other is the SC001 Active drive with SATA  interface.

As China's largest and most advanced semiconductor manufacturing company, Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC),  was pinned on high expectations. However, today, more than a month after its listing on China's A-share market, the company's share price fell to a new low, losing 150 billion yuan in market value.

China's 2020 chip imports are expected to remain above $300 billion for the third consecutive year, said Wei Shaojun, deputy director of the China Semiconductor Industry Association, at the World Semiconductor Congress in Nanjing.

The "Linux Lab" open source project has recently been adapted to the Loongson development environment with the support of Loongson Technology's embedded division, the Chinese chip maker said on its WeChat account.

Montage Technology, a China-based provider of analog and mixed-signal semiconductor solutions, has announced its second generation Jintide CPU and also showcased several server models based on the CPU from its server OEM partners.

More than 100 veteran engineers and managers from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC), the world's leading chipmaker, have been hired by two Chinese chip companies since last year, the Nikkei Asian Review reported on Wednesday.

Chinese newspaper thepaper.cn quoted an unnamed source from Huawei's chip-designing arm HiSilicon as saying that he has not heard of the "Tashan Project” after an earlier report said Huawei has launched the project to make its foray into semiconductor manufacturing.