China Tech

  • Cambricon poised to break NVIDIA's monopoly in China, analysts say

    China's top investment bank CICC said Cambricon, one of China's most valuable artificial intelligence chipmakers is a leading global AI chip design company that is poised to break NVIDIA's monopoly in the domestic market on the back of rising demand for semiconductor import substitution.

  • Beijing has more than 5 million 5G subscribers

    Beijing's 5G subscriber base has exceeded 5.06 million, and at the same time, the city has also achieved full coverage capability for 5G independent networking, according to Beijing Daily.

  • New alliance formed in China to promote self-sufficiency in automotive chips

    The China Automotive Chip Industry Innovation Strategic Alliance was officially established in Beijing on September 19, which is jointly supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China, and led by the China New Energy Vehicle Technology Innovation Center.

  • Baidu Maps begins support for Huawei HarmonyOS 2.0

    Baidu Maps has provided support for the Huawei HarmonyOS 2.0, allowing navigation information to flow seamlessly from the phone to the watch.

  • Alibaba's Hanguang 800 AI processor has been put to use, delivering 4-11x better performance than GPUs

    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.

  • UOS for Loongson comes with Sogou input method, the most popular input method in China

    Chinese chip maker Loongson Technology has partnered with Union Tech, the developer of China-made operating system UOS, and Sogou Input Method to pre-install the input method Linux on UOS for Loongson.

  • China cloud infrastructure spending surges 70% in Q2

    Spending on cloud infrastructure services in China reached a record $4.3 billion in the second quarter, up 70 percent year-on-year, according to a report from market research firm Canalys.

  • China plans flight-based space transportation in 2045, with one-hour access to the globe

    China plans to achieve one-hour global arrival and flight-based ground-to-orbit and orbit-to-orbit space transportation by 2045 on the basis of a comprehensive upgrade of the performance of new-generation launch vehicles, according to the Xinhua News Agency. 

  • ByteDance reportedly plans TikTok IPO which could come in about a year

    ByteDance will file for the initial public offering (IPO) of TikTok Global, the new company that will operate the popular short video app, should their proposed deal be cleared by the White House, according to Reuters.

  • China's private rocket company Space Pioneer closes hundreds of millions of yuan in Series A financing

    Space Pioneer, a private Chinese rocket company, has announced the completion of hundreds of millions RMB Series A round of financing.