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Wednesday 2 April 2025
Xiaomi's decade-long comeback: Dramatic role reversal with Samsung and Gree
In a remarkable power shift over the past decade, Xiaomi has transformed from an industry underdog to a dominant force. While CEO Lei Jun once waited hours to secure Samsung display...
Tuesday 1 April 2025
Samsung looks to salvage chip fortunes as chairman Lee Jae-yong courts China's AI and EV powerhouses
Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Jae-yong recently made a high-profile visit to China, meeting with leading Chinese automaker executives and President Xi Jinping. South Korean analysts...
Tuesday 1 April 2025
Zhipu AI enters the ring with AutoGLM; open-source AI agent targets LLM supremacy
Zhipu AI, a Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) startup, introduced its open-source AI agent AutoGLM at the 2025 Zhongguancun Forum. Designed to bridge advanced reasoning with task...
Tuesday 1 April 2025
LCD TV panel rally fizzles under Trump tariffs, China trade-in policy fatigue
LCD TV panel prices are losing steam following a brief rally that began in late 2024, initially fueled by front-loaded orders. Rising inflation concerns and renewed tariff threats...
Tuesday 1 April 2025
Manus rising: China's Butterfly Effect squares off against ChatGPT Pro with premium AI agent
Chinese AI startup Butterfly Effect has rolled out a subscription service for its Manus AI agent just weeks after launching its preview version, with its top-tier Manus Pro plan priced...
Tuesday 1 April 2025
Cutthroat and Cornered: China's chip sector risk self-cannibalization
SEMICON China 2025 opened at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre to large crowds and packed booths, a full display of China's forward momentum for its semiconductor industry...
Tuesday 1 April 2025
Apple top brass back in China: smart manufacturing partners in the spotlight
Three months into 2025, Apple's senior leadership is back in China. CEO Tim Cook posted "Hello, Beijing" on Weibo, marking his fourth visit in just over a year. COO Jeff Williams...
Tuesday 1 April 2025
China's server reboot: Kunpeng chips signal Huawei's post-x86 future
Amid the AI boom, much of the spotlight has focused on Chinese chips like Huawei's Ascend. Yet, general-purpose computing power, still dominated by CPUs, remains a critical foundation...
Tuesday 1 April 2025
Huawei 2024 annual report: US$118B in revenue, profit slips, R&D spending soars past US$25B
Huawei Chairman Liang Hua said at the Guangdong High-Quality Development Conference in early February that the company's total sales revenue for 2024 surpassed CNY860 billion (approx...
Tuesday 1 April 2025
Deepseek AI drives unprecedented demand for Nvidia's China-specific chips
Nvidia's relationship with Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has evolved dramatically, affecting Nvidia's stock price and driving strong demand for its China-specific H20 GPU in China....
Tuesday 1 April 2025
Post-DeepSeek fallout: China's six AI startups shift from scaling to survival
DeepSeek's meteoric rise as an open-source large language model (LLM) has shaken up China's generative AI industry, redrawing the competitive map in record time. As the Financial...
Monday 31 March 2025
Baidu goes open-source: custom GPUs power comeback bid
On March 16, 2025, Baidu launched its latest AI models, Ernie 4.5 and Ernie X1, and announced they would be available free for all users. Ernie 4.5 also marks Baidu's first fully...
Monday 31 March 2025
New leadership, old mandate: CR Micro moves in lockstep with China's chip strategy
China Resources Microelectronics (CR Micro) has appointed He Xiaolong as its new chairman in a rapid leadership reshuffle. According to a regulatory filing cited by East Money...
Monday 31 March 2025
KPMG survey: China's executives prioritize survival over growth
Most Chinese chief executives are focusing on corporate survival rather than growth strategies, with geopolitical tensions and supply chain disruptions ranking as their top concerns...
Monday 31 March 2025
Alibaba expands AI strategy from digital to physical, join hands with Apple, BMW, China Mobile
DeepSeek has allowed the public to witness the explosive growth of AI applications and the renewed hope brought by AI models undergoing repeated calculations. However, the questions...