China Tech

  • Shanghai firm unveils unmanned aerial vehicle with a range of up to 1,000 km

    At the 2020 World Drone Conference on 13 September, Shanghai-based Autoflight unveiled the V400 Xintianweng, an intelligent unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that can take off and land vertically.

  • TikTok maintains No. 1 spot as most downloaded non-gaming app in August

    Short video sharing app TikTok was the most downloaded non-gaming app worldwide for August 2020, according to market research firm Sensor Tower.

  • Baidu opens Apollo Go, a self-driving taxi in Beijing

    Baidu Apollo on Thursday announced the opening of the automated taxi service Apollo Go in Beijing, where local users can book to experience Robotaxi on Baidu Maps and Apollo's official website.

  • Yangtze Memory sub-brand ZHITAI launches SSDs with write speeds of up to 2,900MB/s

    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.

  • TikTok reportedly in talks with US to postpone sale

    The drama of the US government forcing ByteDance to sell TikTok's US business has taken a new turn.

  • Private Chinese rocket company LandSpace announces 1.2 billion yuan in new funding

    LandSpace, a private Chinese rocket company, announced today that it has closed a RMB 1.2 billion C+ round of financing. Over the past 12 months, the company has raised over RMB 1.8 billion in investments.

  • Huawei establishes new company to focus on electric vehicle technology

    Huawei Electric Technology Co. was established on September 8 with a registered capital of 250 million yuan and legal representative Wang Jun, Tianyancha data showed.

  • China-made UnionTech OS gets an enterprise version

    Union Tech, a Chinese operating system developer, said today that its UnionTech OS Server 20 Enterprise-C is now available.

  • Beijing achieves full coverage of stand-alone 5G network

    By the end of August this year, Beijing had built 44,000 5G base stations, all of which were connected to the core network of the stand-alone 5G network, achieving full coverage of the city.

  • Huawei Kirin 9000 chip allegedly has two variants

    The upcoming Huawei HiSilicon Kirin 9000 series chipset will include two models, the Kirin 9000 and Kirin 9000E, according to Twitter user @RODENT950.