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Thursday 27 November 2025
Beijing reportedly bans ByteDance from using Nvidia GPUs in new data centers
Beijing authorities have reportedly imposed strict restrictions on high-end semiconductor imports, prohibiting ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, from deploying Nvidia GPUs...
Thursday 20 November 2025
Huawei is stitching together a new Chinese chip order—one factory, fund, and startup at a time
Huawei is accelerating acquisitions, factory builds, and investment across China's semiconductor sector, advancing a multi-year effort to establish a self-reliant supply chain for...
Tuesday 18 November 2025
Huawei pitches a new vision for AI compute: one cluster, one software brain
Huawei will unveil a new unified AI compute-management technology on November 21 at the "2025 AI Container Application Implementation and Development Forum," a move widely viewed...
Monday 10 November 2025
Malaysia reaffirms AI chip neutrality, adopts Nvidia and Huawei Ascend
Malaysia has reiterated its neutral stance on artificial intelligence (AI) chip selection, ensuring that both Nvidia Corporation and Huawei's Ascend unit chips will be adopted. According...
Monday 20 October 2025
Exclusive: TSMC tightens China orders after US sanctions; Huawei proxy Sophgo cut off, Bitmain halved

Fueled by strong orders from Apple and Nvidia, TSMC posted record third-quarter results and raised its full-year US dollar revenue growth...

Tuesday 7 October 2025
TSMC, Samsung components still found in Huawei's Ascend 910C
Semiconductor intelligence firm TechInsights has concluded, following a teardown of Huawei Technologies' Ascend 910C chip, that some of the components still come from Taiwan Semiconductor...
Wednesday 1 October 2025
Nvidia falters in China; Huawei moves to fill AI chip vacuum
Huawei is set to expand Ascend AI chip output, seizing on Nvidia's shrinking position in China as US export curbs and Beijing's security mandates squeeze the American company's market...
Tuesday 30 September 2025
DeepSeek launches new open-source AI model with Huawei, Cambricon, Hygon support
DeepSeek unveiled its next-generation large language model, DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp, on September 29, 2025, and released it as open source on Hugging Face. The new model features a sparse...
Tuesday 30 September 2025
Richard Yu to lead Huawei's Investment Review Board in strategic AI pivot

Huawei is doubling down on its artificial intelligence (AI) ambitions. On September 29, company founder Ren Zhengfei personally signed...

Saturday 27 September 2025
Why DeepSeek's R2 still isn't here: Liang Wenfeng's balancing act
On September 22, DeepSeek released the upgraded DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus model through its API platform and quickly made it open source. The update fixed user-reported issues, but once...
Saturday 27 September 2025
When LLMs outgrow the chip: Huawei's P/D separation redefines design choices
At Huawei Connect 2025, Huawei rolled out its Ascend 950, 960, and 970 AI chips with a three-year roadmap, headlined by the Ascend 950's new "P/D separation" design. The architecture...
Thursday 25 September 2025
Alibaba stakes out AI chip ecosystem, setting up a clash with Huawei
Alibaba is steadily building a vertically integrated chip ecosystem that spans cloud computing, AI chip design, and advanced packaging. People's Daily recently revealed a...
Wednesday 24 September 2025
Huawei's custom HBM challenges the existing memory hegemony
China is moving aggressively into the high-performance DRAM market dominated by Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, with its sights set on customized high-bandwidth memory (HBM). The...
Tuesday 23 September 2025
Huawei declares supernode era to eclipse Nvidia within 2 years
At Huawei Connect 2025, the company rolled out a three-year roadmap for its Ascend chips alongside the debut of its Atlas 950 supernode. Rotating chairman Eric Xu warned that China's...
Monday 22 September 2025
Huawei launches 'safe' DeepSeek R1 through academic collab, trained on 1,000 Ascend chips
Huawei introduced the DeepSeek-R1-Safe at Huawei Connect 2025, a security-enhanced version of its DeepSeek R1 developed with Zhejiang University. The model targets stricter content...