The Microsoft Windows outage that affected foreign businesses and luxury hotels in China on Friday left the country’s key infrastructure unaffected.
Huawei’s global smartphone shipments reached a low of 28.1 million units in 2022, down from more than 240 million units in 2019, as Washington tightened tech restrictions.
ASML’s latest quarterly results are the first under new chief executive Christophe Fouquet , who took over the reins at Europe’s biggest technology firm in April.
The German government and mobile carriers have agreed on steps to phase parts from Chinese tech firms out of the nation’s 5G wireless network over the next five years.
On the day OpenAI cut off API access in mainland China and Hong Kong, developers turned to VPNs and third-party providers while making plans to use domestic models.
The move shows the challenges faced by multinational companies when navigating a bifurcated global technology system.
China’s home-grown open-source OS openKylin is designed to support running large language models on-device, following the AI PC industry trend.
That AI initiative augurs well for Alibaba International Digital Commerce Group, which now has 300 million consumers annually and more than one million merchants around the world.
Delegates at a conference to mark 30 years since China’s first internet connection highlighted the nation’s determination to become self-sufficient in AI and future online technologies.
The Taiwanese company has been granted approval to produce smart entertainment products and smart-system equipment at the new facilities.
China’s innovative work force and speedy infrastructure development are key strengths, experts told a forum.
Ninety per cent of global venture capital investments in the chip sector last year came from China, according to Preqin research.
Chinese GPU start-up Moore Threads has upgraded the capability of its AI data centre, boosting the number of GPUs connectable in a single computing cluster to 10,000.
The effort adds to the growing momentum of protectionism against Chinese companies as its cheaper goods threaten local producers.
China filed more than 38,000 patents related to GenAI from 2014 to 2023 compared with more than 6,000 from the US, according to the UN’s IP agency.
The World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai will feature innovations that could help China narrow the gap with the United States in the technology’s development.
The Biden administration is taking to new measures to thwart Huawei, which has started to rebound despite US sanctions.
With standards in place, AI is expected to ‘profoundly change industrial production and economic-development patterns’ in the country, according to the draft policy.
Tencent said its focus on speeding up network communications to access idling GPU capacity resulted in a 20 per cent improvement in LLM training.
Matrix Partners China has become MPC, while its India unit is now Z47, reflecting similar moves by other firms to distance themselves from foreign investments.
Huawei’s high-bandwidth memory initiative reflects the growing global market for these chips, which are indispensable components in the computing infrastructure used for artificial intelligence projects.