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Friday 25 July 2025
Huawei's shadow fab (2): Japan-Taiwan veterans architect China's stealth DRAM ambitions
As China accelerates its drive for semiconductor self-reliance, DRAM memory has become a crucial yet understated battleground. SwaySure Technology, a relatively unknown company with...
Thursday 24 July 2025
Huawei's shadow fab (1): the secret chip agenda at the heart of Shenzhen
As US–China tech tensions escalate, semiconductors have become the focal point in a broader race for technological sovereignty. Three obscure yet strategically vital wafer foundries,...
Thursday 24 July 2025
Car industry questions Huawei's no car-making pledge as HIMA surges
Huawei's Harmony Intelligent Mobility Alliance (HIMA) reached top five in total sales in June, just one spot behind Tesla China, an indication of the beginning of Huawei's path to...
Thursday 24 July 2025
'Awkward' fit: Nvidia's H20 snubbed in China as Qihoo 360 turns to Huawei AI chips
Nvidia's H20 chip has re-entered the Chinese market but is facing an underwhelming reception, as influential tech leaders increasingly favor local semiconductor alternatives. Zhou...
Monday 21 July 2025
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang highlights China's unique role in AI innovation and tech ecosystem
Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang recently visited China, and in a one-on-one interview with CCTV, he highlighted the uniqueness and significance of the Chinese AI market...
Monday 21 July 2025
Weekly news roundup: Nvidia partners with Micron, Huawei's 'Little HiSilicon' launches, GB300 production begins
Below are the top DIGITIMES Asia stories from July 14 to 20, 2025. The top three topics include Nvidia teams up with Micron for a major SOCAMM rollout, aiming to challenge high-bandwidth...
Friday 18 July 2025
Foldable smartphone brands strategize to break growth plateau
The foldable smartphone space is buzzing with increased support from brands, hardware innovations, and generative AI enhancements. Since the release of Samsung's Galaxy Z Fold 7,...
Thursday 17 July 2025
Uncertainty still clouds H20 relaunch in China despite resumed sales, says Jensen Huang
On July 16, Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang held a lengthy interview with over 30 Chinese media outlets in Beijing, addressing issues ranging from the recent resumption of H20...
Thursday 17 July 2025
Huawei's AI chip expansion into SEA and the Middle East likely limited to sanctioned markets
Recent market rumors suggest that Huawei has begun supplying small quantities of its own AI chips to potential customers in Southeast Asia and the Middle East as a trial. Many observers...
Wednesday 16 July 2025
As Huawei Ascend courts the Middle East and Southeast Asia, Washington raises red flags
In early July, the US Department of Commerce issued a stark warning: using Huawei's Ascend AI chips "anywhere in the world" could be considered a violation of US export controls....
Tuesday 15 July 2025
China lags in chip lithography, influential DC think tank says
China faces significant challenges advancing its semiconductor lithography, a key hurdle for its drive toward technological self-sufficiency and superiority in the trade war with...
Tuesday 15 July 2025
Alpha and Omega sells China stake after Huawei export violations
Alpha and Omega Semiconductor (AOS) is repositioning its China strategy while simultaneously grappling with the fallout from a significant US export control violation.
Monday 14 July 2025
Huawei's 'Little HiSilicon' launches all-out chip blitz: from RISC-V MCUs to AI edge SoCs
HiSilicon (Shanghai) Technologies — Huawei's application-specific chip design arm known as "Little HiSilicon" — has launched a broad lineup of self-developed chips spanning...
Monday 14 July 2025
Huawei’s HiSilicon debuts low-power Cat.1 chip to boost IoT reach
On July 10, 2024, Huawei's chip subsidiary HiSilicon launched its first Cat.1 IoT communication chip — the Hi2131 — officially entering the fast-growing cellular IoT market,...
Tuesday 8 July 2025
Whistleblower exposes Huawei's PanGu AI model copycat scandal
On June 30, 2025, Huawei released the source code for its PanGu 7B dense parameter model and the larger PanGuPro mixture-of-experts (MoE) 72B model, both tailored for inference on...
Monday 4 September 2017
IFA 2017: Huawei Kirin 970
Huawei has launched the Kirin 970 at IFA 2017 in Berlin, a chip that combines the power of the cloud with the speed and responsiveness of native AI processing, according to the company. Cloud AI has seen broad application, but user experience still has room for improvement, including latency, stability, and privacy, according to the vendor. Cloud AI and on-device AI can complement each other. On-device AI offers strong sensing capabilities, which are the foundation of understanding and assisting people. Sensors produce a large amount of real-time, scenario-specific, and personalized data. Supported by strong chip processing capabilities, devices will become more cognitive of user needs, providing personalized and readily accessible services. Kirin 970 is powered by an 8-core CPU and a new generation 12-core GPU. Built using a 10nm advanced process, the chipset packs 5.5 billion transistors into an area of only one square centimeter. Huawei's new flagship Kirin 970 is its first mobile AI computing platform featuring a dedicated neural processing unit (NPU). Compared to a quad-core Cortex-A73 CPU cluster, the Kirin 970's new heterogeneous computing architecture delivers up to 25x the performance with 50x greater efficiency. The Kirin 970 can perform the same AI computing tasks faster and with far less power, Huawei claims. In a benchmark image recognition test, the Kirin 970 processed 2,000 images per minute, which was faster than other chips on the market. Huawei is positioning the Kirin 970 as an open platform for mobile AI, opening up the chipset to developers and partners.