According to several people familiar with the matter, Contemporary Amperex Technology Limited (CATL), the world's largest maker of electric-vehicle (EV) batteries, is in talks to participate in a major financing round for the Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) start-up DeepSeek. The prospective investment highlights how China's AI boom is forging new alliances among technology firms, industrial companies, and energy providers, all competing to build the infrastructure required for the next generation of computing
Huawei is using self-developed packaging technology to build ultra-high-capacity enterprise SSDs, underscoring how Chinese technology companies are increasingly turning to advanced packaging and system-level engineering to navigate US semiconductor restrictions
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has permanently reduced the API pricing of its flagship DeepSeek-V4-Pro model to one-quarter of its original rates, escalating competition in the global AI model market
