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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Weekly news roundup: Huawei found to use outdated 5nm; Google launches 270M AI model; China's new E-Beam tool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 Firstly, a recent teardown confirms that Huawei's Kunpeng 930 chip still relies on TSMC's outdated 5nm process...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Huawei data center chip stuck on outdated 5nm node, teardown reveals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...

Thursday 14 August 2025

Huawei fast-tracks Mate 80 launch, backed by 10+ key Chinese suppliers in Apple rivalry

Huawei will launch its 2025 flagship Mate 80 series in October, moving up its schedule to land near Apple's iPhone 17 debut in early September, according to supply chain sources....

Wednesday 13 August 2025

China to start mass production of domestic HBM3 chips, paving way for Huawei AI integration

China's domestic high-bandwidth memory (HBM) technology has reportedly reached a major milestone, with one of the nation's top DRAM manufacturers...

Wednesday 13 August 2025

Huawei unveils AI software to boost inference and curb China’s reliance on foreign memory chips

Huawei has launched its Unified Cache Manager (UCM), a software framework designed to speed up inference in large AI models. The company...

Wednesday 13 August 2025

China’s No. 3 automaker and Huawei tighten ties in global EV race

Huarong Zhu, the newly appointed chairman of China Changan Automobile Group (CCAG), visited Shenzhen and met with Huawei founder Zhengfei Ren. The two exchanged views on industry...

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