China Tech

  • China's central bank explores digital currency application scenarios with local tech firms

    China is speeding up the development of a  fiat digital currency system as the latest reports showed its central bank if working with a number of local technology companies on this front.

  • Huawei's openEuler gets support from China-made UOS developer

    The openEuler system open source community built by has recently formed a DDE special interest group (SIG) to enrich the system's desktop environment, and the first maintainer is the China-made UOS developer Union Tech.

  • China's hot stock market raises demand for cloud services from brokers

    In the past few days due to the sudden surge in trading volume in the Chinese stock market, Alibaba Cloud, or Aliyun has received expansion requests from several securities firms to address their app data delays and trading logjams.

  • Huawei, ZTE hold 48.9 percent share of 5G telecom equipment market

    Huawei ranked first in the 5G telecom equipment market in Q1 with a 35.7% market share, well ahead of the second place holder Ericsson's 24.6%.

  • PC with China-made CPU and operating system rolls off production line in Liaoning

    China-made PC "Tianyue", which uses completely independent parts and operating systems, rolls off the production line in Liaoning Province on July 3.

  • SMIC ranks 5th in Q2 global foundry market share

    In the second quarter of this year, TSMC held 51.5% of the global foundry market share, topping the list, according to TrendForce.

  • OPPO announces participation in UK's first 5G SA network build-out

    Chinese smartphone maker OPPO today announced that it has partnered with Vodafone and Ericsson to complete the UK's first 5G SA network and provide the first 5G SA network slicing service.

  • Chinese foundry SMIC's A-share offer price determined, raising around 50 billion yuan

    The initial public offering price of China's biggest foundry, Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC), is set at RMB 27.46 and the scale of fund raising will exceed RMB 50 billion if an over-allotment option is exercised.

  • China launches first civilian satellite with sub-meter resolution

    At 11.10 a.m. on July 3, China's Long March 4B launch vehicle successfully carried out a launch mission at the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, putting the high-resolution multimode integrated imaging satellite Xibaipo into a predetermined orbit.

  • Tencent unveils mega data center capable of housing 1 million servers

    Tencent today announced the start of services at its largest data center cluster in Qingyuan, Guangdong province, which has the capacity to house more than one million servers.