Tech Industry
OPPO establishes Xi'an R&D center to focus on cell phone development
OPPO said the R&D center will take on the R&D of cell phone products and research in key areas, and will develop into a comprehensive product R&D center in the future.
Tencent is now worth more than China's six largest state-owned banks combined
At press time, Tencent rose 8.83 percent to HK$752 in Hong Kong, hitting another record high. Its total market capitalization is HK$7.22 trillion, which translates to about 6 trillion yuan.
ZTE's 2020 net profit goes down 15.18% from last year to $674 million
ZTE's net profit attributable to common shareholders for fiscal year of 2020 decreased by 15.18% on a year-on-year basis to RMB 4.367 billion ($674 million), ZTE said in an earnings released today.
China's IC layout design registration applications grow by over 70% in 2020
A total of 14,375 applications for IC layout design were filed in China in 2020, a year-on-year growth of 72.8%, according to data released by the National Intellectual Property Administration on January 22.
Honor CEO says company has resumed partnerships with nearly all suppliers, including Intel, Qualcomm
Honor has now signed agreements with all of its past vendor partners to resume supply, including AMD, Qualcomm, Samsung, Microsoft, Intel, MediaTek, said the smartphone marker’s CEO George Zhao.
Honor CEO says company has more than 8,000 employees, will go mid-high-end in the future
Honor now has more than 8,000 employees, more than 50 percent of whom are in the research and development department, the company's CEO George Zhao said at the Honor V40 launch event this morning.
Huawei demonstrates ray-tracing rendering technology
Huawei recently released a video in Bilibili demonstrating ray tracing rendering technology and claimed it will open up infinite possibilities for mobile game graphics quality.
Cambricon's first AI training chip starts mass production with TSMC's 7nm process
The MLU 290 smart chip is Cambricon's first training chip, using TSMC's 7nm process, integrating 46 billion transistors. It supports AI training, inference, or hybrid AI compute acceleration tasks.
OnePlus and OPPO R&D departments merge, retain software features
The R&D departments of Chinese smartphone makers OnePlus and OPPO have merged, with offers for new employees in R&D positions being made by OPPO rather than OnePlus.
MediaTek becomes largest smartphone chip supplier in China
In the first half of 2020, ahead of MediaTek were HiSilicon and Qualcomm, but HiSilicon suffered a setback in shipments because of factors such as US sanctions.