China’s top securities regulator has pledged to widen foreign investors’ access to the mainland’s capital market while further lowering the fundraising threshold for technology firms, after a key indicator slumped nearly 4 per cent from a 10-year high in mid-November. Wu Qing, chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC), set out guidance for the…
The tech war between the United States and China has helped Chinese tech entrepreneur Chen Tianshi become one of the world’s richest self-made billionaires. Here’s how it happened The tech war between the United States and China has helped Chinese tech entrepreneur Chen Tianshi become one of the world’s richest self-made billionaires. Tianshi has witnessed…
Chinese chip designer Cambricon Technologies and artificial intelligence company SenseTime have teamed up to advance the country’s efforts to become self-reliant in AI infrastructure, according to a social media post on Wednesday. The two companies intend to leverage their respective hardware and software expertise to promote “a new indigenous AI development paradigm”, according to a…
Biomap, a biotechnology start-up co-established by Baidu founder Robin Li Yanhong and backed by the Hong Kong government, says it has surpassed Alphabet subsidiary AlphaFold in commercialising artificial intelligence foundation models for drug discovery. Multinational pharmaceutical companies were seeing a “reverse” in the technological gap between Biomap and AlphaFold, Wei Liu, co-founder and CEO of…
Date and time: Friday, September 19, 2025 10.30am-11.30am (HKT) The US-China chip war is escalating, with Washington’s goal of limiting Beijing’s technological advancement now sparking a counter-reaction that may accelerate China’s drive for chip self-sufficiency. The latest actions in this conflict – including US export controls and China’s push for domestic alternatives – are reshaping…
China’s drive for economic self-reliance is raising the spirits and prospects of its semiconductor industry, as insiders expect more home-grown technologies after Washington revoked waivers for some foreign-owned chipmakers’ factories in China to use US technologies in their operations. The Chinese branches of South Korean chipmakers Samsung and SK Hynix, as well as Intel Semiconductor…
China’s biggest cloud-computing company, Alibaba, has developed an AI chip in a move to address the supply gaps created after Nvidia faced regulatory barriers for selling its most advanced products in China. This comes as Chinese chip companies are building their arsenal of homegrown technology as the Chinese government pushes to win the global AI…
We have selected seven stories from this week’s news across Hong Kong, mainland China, the wider Asia region and beyond that resonated with our readers and shed light on topical issues. If you would like to see more of our reporting, please consider subscribing. 1. Looks like an airship, acts like a windmill. Engineer says…
We have selected seven stories from this week’s news across Hong Kong, mainland China, the wider Asia region and beyond that resonated with our readers and shed light on topical issues. If you would like to see more of our reporting, please consider subscribing. 1. Looks like an airship, acts like a windmill. Engineer says…
SenseTime has significantly narrowed its losses while achieving robust growth in its generative artificial intelligence business in the first half of 2025, as China pushes a nationwide initiative to advance the AI industry. The Hong Kong-listed company on Thursday posted revenue of 2.36 billion yuan (US$330 million) for the six months ended June 30, marking…