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Wednesday 27 August 2025
Huawei slashes Mate series prices, prepares tri-fold launch ahead of Apple event
Apple will unveil its latest iPhone lineup on September 9 in California, but Huawei is looking to pre-empt the buzz. The Chinese tech giant confirmed it will hold its "Mate XT Ultimate...
Wednesday 27 August 2025
China's cloud giants diverge on AI strategies with spending surge
China's top cloud providers are charting different courses in artificial intelligence (AI) as the nation's tech boom enters a new stage. Alibaba, Tencent, ByteDance, and Huawei are...
Tuesday 26 August 2025
Huawei to launch AI SSD in Shanghai, aims to tackle HBM supply bottlenecks
Huawei will debut its self-developed artificial intelligence (AI) solid-state drive on August 27 at its Lianqiu Lake R&D Center. The company said the device is designed to address...
Monday 25 August 2025
AI investments of top-4 Chinese CSPs
Top-4 Chinese cloud service providers are expanding their investment in AI infrastructure, accelerating the promotion of AI hardware and software solutions with Chinese characteristics...
Monday 25 August 2025
Weekly news roundup: Huawei found to use outdated 5nm; Google launches 270M AI model; China's new E-Beam tool
Below are the key DIGITIMES Asia stories from August 11 to 17, 2025. Firstly, a recent teardown confirms that Huawei's Kunpeng 930 chip still relies on TSMC's outdated 5nm process...
Monday 25 August 2025
Baidu's Kunlunxin's US$140 million AI chip order from China Mobile fuels face-off with Nvidia
China's push to challenge Nvidia in AI chips is accelerating, with Baidu's Kunlunxin winning a US$140 million order from China Mobile. Alongside Huawei's Ascend processors and Cambricon's...
Friday 22 August 2025
China’s AI chip drive eyes 82% autonomy by 2027
China's top provinces are intensifying efforts to reduce reliance on foreign semiconductors, setting aggressive targets to boost self-sufficiency in AI and data center chips.
Thursday 21 August 2025
SJ Semiconductor advances 3D packaging as key Huawei partner, climbs global OSAT rankings
China's semiconductor packaging and testing firm SJ Semiconductor (SJ Semi) has made significant headway with the completion of its third production facility, J2C, in Jiangyin's high-tech...
Wednesday 20 August 2025
Huawei turns to software to ease pain from China's scarce AI memory
The global race to build ever-larger AI models is intensifying, and the battle is no longer confined to Nvidia's powerful GPUs. Another crucial, though less visible, component has...
Tuesday 19 August 2025
Huawei data center chip stuck on outdated 5nm node, teardown reveals
A recent teardown of Huawei's new Kunpeng 930 data center processor suggests the chip may still rely on TSMC's five-year-old 5nm manufacturing node. The finding underscores how US...
Monday 18 August 2025
Huawei escalates IP battle with Africa's dominant smartphone vendor
Chinese handset maker Shenzhen Transsion Holdings Co., known as the "king of phones in Africa," is facing a fresh legal challenge from Huawei, highlighting growing intellectual property...
Monday 18 August 2025
Huawei tests China's first HBM3 as CXMT accelerates expansion to counter supply squeeze
China's push for self-reliance in artificial intelligence (AI) semiconductors is running into fresh obstacles as Washington tightens controls on advanced memory. In response, ChangXin...
Friday 15 August 2025
DeepSeek's R2 stalls as Huawei Ascend chips fall short of Nvidia H100's capabilities
In the 2025 AI arms race, China's DeepSeek has become both a showcase of ambition and a cautionary tale on domestic chip limitations. Founded in Hangzhou in 2023 and backed by hedge...
Thursday 14 August 2025
Inspur's Metabrain SD200 takes on trillion-parameter AI with four top Chinese models
Following Huawei's recent AI inference milestone, China's server leader Inspur has introduced the Metabrain SD200, a next-generation AI supernode server designed for trillion-parameter...
Thursday 14 August 2025
Commentary: Huawei's Mate 80 showcases near-100% China supply chain in high-end smartphone drive
Over the past five years, Huawei's drive to localize smartphone components has shifted from a crisis response into a calculated, strategic effort to build a self-reliant supply chain...