China’s southern tech hub of Shenzhen is poised to surpass long-time foreign-trade champion Shanghai this year, having posted record trade by value and a record growth rate in the first 11 months of 2024. The strong growth has been buoyed by growing demand for electronics, hi-tech products, and an expansion of cross-border e-commerce, according to…
With Donald Trump elected again as US president, China is concerned about the self-professed “Tariff Man” and his threats to kill off Chinese imports with big increases in tariffs, which are to be imposed on his first day back in the Oval Office next January. In response, the Biden administration and its Western allies complain…
China’s semiconductor industry is bracing for new shocks, as the US prepares to add several major chip equipment and materials suppliers on the mainland to its trade restriction list, dealing a fresh blow to the country’s push for technological self-reliance, according to two people familiar with the matter. Several chip fabrication plants and manufacturing partners…
China’s semiconductor industry is bracing for new shocks, as the US prepares to add several major chip equipment and materials suppliers on the mainland to its trade restriction list, dealing a fresh blow to the country’s push for technological self-reliance, according to two people familiar with the matter. Several chip fabrication plants and manufacturing partners…
“At the moment, we are artificially creating a barrier between the US and mainland China, and that will stifle the development of technology,” Lawrence Cheung Chi-chong, HKPC’s chief technology officer, said in an interview on the sidelines of an AI conference organised by the council on Tuesday. “A lot of times for us, we don’t…
SHENZHEN, China (Reuters) -Chinese tech giant Huawei Technologies unveiled its Mate 70 smartphone series on Tuesday, advancing its comeback in the premium smartphone space while showcasing its own operating system in a clean break away from U.S. technology. The phone marks the “the most powerful Mate phone ever”, Richard Yu, chairman of Huawei’s Consumer Business…
BEIJING (Reuters) -China’s Huawei Technologies on Monday announced that it had started taking pre-orders for its Mate 70 smartphone model, in a statement on its official WeChat account. It will also hold an event for the Mate brand on Nov. 26, it said in a separate statement, where it is expected to unveil its latest…
China’s southern tech hub Shenzhen spent a record amount on research and development (R&D) last year, rivalling Beijing’s level and vastly exceeding that of neighbouring Hong Kong to cement its position as a national research mecca. Shenzhen’s R&D expenditure jumped to 223.66 billion yuan (US$30.93 billion) in 2023, surpassing the 200-billion-yuan mark for the first…
Mainland China’s chip design firms are anxiously waiting for any further updates from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), after the world’s most advanced contract chip manufacturer paused 7-nanometre node services for some artificial intelligence (AI) chip clients in the world’s largest semiconductor market by consumption. TSMC last week told graphics-processing-unit (GPU) and AI-accelerator clients on…
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – Huawei Technologies asked a U.S. judge to dismiss much of a federal indictment accusing the Chinese telecommunications company of trying to steal technology secrets from U.S. rivals and misleading banks about its business in Iran. In a Friday night filing in federal court in Brooklyn, Huawei said there…