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Can China’s chip ambitions reshape the global tech landscape?

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Fri, 4 September 2026peak 5 reports on Thu, 17 September 2026Mon, 2 November 2026

What it is about

ChinaRichard Yu ChengdongHuawei TechnologiesHuawei’s consumer business groupGuangzhouHuawei YuHuaweiCounterpoint Research OnChineseGuangzhou, Guangdong, ChinaXiaomi, Fujian, ChinaShenzhen-basedShenzhenNvidiaDonald TrumpGeorge ChenAsia GroupWashington, Washington, United StatesShanghai, Shanghai, ChinaBeijing, Beijing, China

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7 Sept, 10:32over 51 days28 Oct, 11:00

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How it spread - 36 original reports, 1 reprint

  1. Fri, 4 September 2026

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  2. Mon, 7 September 2026

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    • South China Morning Post10:32

      Huawei Technologies has unveiled its first smartphone powered by a next-generation mobile processor based on the company’s proprietary Tau Scaling Law, continuing its push to boost chip performance while reducing reliance on advanced foreign semiconductor equipment. Speaking at a launch event in Guangzhou on Monday, Richard Yu Chengdong, chairman of Huawei’s consumer business group, described the Kirin 9050 Pro as the company’s “most powerful Kirin chip ever”. The processor is based on...

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  3. Thu, 10 September 2026

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    • South China Morning Post13:30first to report

      Huawei Technologies has unveiled a high-speed optical module designed to eliminate bottlenecks in artificial intelligence infrastructure, staking an early claim in the race to set standards for next-generation data centre connections. The Shenzhen-based tech giant showcased what it called the industry’s first 7.2-terabit-per-second (Tbps) near-packaged optics (NPO) product at the China International Optoelectronic Exposition (CIOE) in Shenzhen this week. The technology replaces traditional...

  4. Thu, 17 September 2026

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  5. Fri, 18 September 2026

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  6. Mon, 21 September 2026

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  7. Tue, 22 September 2026

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    • dailyexcelsior.com10:41

      HONG KONG, Sept 22: Chinas Alibaba unveiled new artificial intelligence chip technologies and plans for more powerful models on Tuesday, including what it said was Chinas most powerful AI chip, days ahead of a meeting between Chinese and US leaders...

    • globaltimes.cn14:15

      A Chinese chip company on Tuesday announced its new-generation training-and-inference AI chip, Zhenwu V900, which it says is the most powerful Chinese AI chip in terms of computing performance. The launch highlights the growing momentum behind homegrown alternatives to foreign artificial intelligence (AI) processors, as China steps up efforts to achieve technological self-reliance under US export controls on advanced semiconductors, a Chinese expert said.

    • South China Morning Post14:30

      Chinese chipmaker Hygon Information Technology on Tuesday launched a suite of central processing units (CPUs) for robotics and industrial edge devices, expanding beyond cloud computing and into the fast-growing market for physical artificial intelligence. The firm unveiled its Hygon 1000 series processors, designed to be embedded into physical devices in industrial automation systems such as robotics and factory controllers, enabling computing and graphics processing to be handled locally....

  8. Wed, 30 September 2026

    4 reports
  9. Thu, 1 October 2026

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    • South China Morning Post03:00

      Huawei Technologies is making rapid progress in rolling out a new breed of advanced chip based on its self-developed Tau Scaling Law, with the Chinese company set to adopt the processors across the newly released Mate 90 smartphone series. The roll-out marks another step forward in the Chinese tech giant’s push to overcome stringent US export curbs, which has seen Huawei rewire its smartphone business to run on home-grown technology. Speaking at a press briefing on Tuesday, Huawei consumer...

  10. Sun, 11 October 2026

    1 report
    • South China Morning Post01:30

      A year ago, a Unitree robot kickboxing could light up social media. When DeepSeek released its latest open-source artificial intelligence (AI) model, developers around the world rushed to test it. This year, however, Hangzhou’s latest technology bets have barely made a ripple. The city’s “New Eight Steeds” – eight deep-tech companies in fields ranging from smart glasses and inference graphic processing units (GPUs) to compute-in-memory chips and space computing – are a very different...

  11. Mon, 12 October 2026

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  12. Tue, 13 October 2026

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  13. Wed, 14 October 2026

    1 report
    • manilatimes.net15:52

      VIENNA, Oct. 14, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- On October 13, at the Net5.5G Intelligent IP Network Summit during UBBF 2026, John Cai, Vice President of Huawei's Data Communication Product Line, delivered a keynote speech, highlighting AI as a definitive opportunity in an uncertain future. He noted that the widespread deployment of the NG WAN Solution marks the full-scale commercialization of NG WAN. He stated that Huawei hopes to collaborate with industry stakeholders to continuously fortify a secure,...

  14. Sat, 17 October 2026

    3 reports
    • Google News - Top Stories12:12

      Intel confirms Razor Lake-AX for 2028 with 700 TOPS AI performance VideoCardz.com Intel "Razor Lake-AX" to Pack 700 TOPS of AI Compute TechPowerUp Intel SVP Confirms Razor Lake-AX Will Hit 700 TOPS & Launch In 2028, 3.88x The AI Compute Of Panther Lake Wccftech Intel Unveils Robotics AI Platform Uniting Real-Time Control, AI on One Chip Tech Times Intel confirms Razor Lake-AX which could deliver nearly four times Panther Lake’s AI performance Digital Trends

    • Google News - Top Stories13:40

      Intel SVP Confirms Razor Lake-AX Will Hit 700 TOPS & Launch In 2028, 3.88x The AI Compute Of Panther Lake Wccftech Intel "Razor Lake-AX" to Pack 700 TOPS of AI Compute TechPowerUp Intel Unveils Robotics AI Platform Uniting Real-Time Control, AI on One Chip Tech Times Intel, KAIST push to commercialize dark factories where robots run entire plant 머니투데이 Intel to Showcase Physical AI at Web Summit 2026 THE ELEC, Korea Electronics Industry Media

    • Google News - Top Stories16:53

      Intel "Razor Lake-AX" to Pack 700 TOPS of AI Compute TechPowerUp Intel confirms Razor Lake-AX for 2028 with 700 TOPS AI performance VideoCardz.com Intel SVP Confirms Razor Lake-AX Will Hit 700 TOPS & Launch In 2028, 3.88x The AI Compute Of Panther Lake Wccftech Intel Unveils Robotics AI Platform Uniting Real-Time Control, AI on One Chip Tech Times Intel, KAIST push to commercialize dark factories where robots run entire plant - MoneyToday 머니투데이

  15. Mon, 19 October 2026

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  16. Wed, 21 October 2026

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    • South China Morning Post05:03

      Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek has fully open-sourced an internally developed framework designed to run AI models efficiently, as a senior researcher at the company described the growing divide between open-source and closed-source AI as a battle between “light and darkness”. The company on Tuesday released DeepInfer, an inference framework tailored to support its DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash model on both Nvidia’s SM100 Blackwell graphics processing units (GPUs) and Huawei...

  17. Thu, 22 October 2026

    1 report
    • South China Morning Post12:00

      Deepening “symbiosis” with artificial intelligence model start-up DeepSeek is helping Chinese tech champion Huawei Technologies catch up with Nvidia’s chip hardware and software ecosystem in a scenario that could mean Jensen Huang’s “nightmare is starting to come true”, according to a new report. DeepSeek’s latest software releases, on top of its increased experimentation with Huawei’s powerful Ascend 950PR chips, reveal that the technological gap with the US is closing, as the two firms...

  18. Fri, 23 October 2026

    1 report
    • South China Morning Post06:00

      Chinese artificial intelligence model developers DeepSeek and MiniMax have completed export registration procedures and proceeded with open-source releases and overseas licensing activities, according to Chinese state media, days after Beijing moved to tighten oversight on AI tech transfers. Yuyuan Tantian, an influential social media account affiliated with state broadcaster CCTV, reported on Thursday evening that the two AI companies had completed the required registrations after Beijing...

  19. Sat, 24 October 2026

    1 report
    • South China Morning Post01:00

      China’s access to artificial intelligence computing power will double next year, but US-designed chips will account for about 65 per cent of that capacity, an indication of its continued reliance on foreign hardware, according to new research. Total compute available to Chinese entities was expected to expand in 2027 from about 4.6 million to 8.8 million “H100-equivalents” – a metric benchmarked against Nvidia’s data-centre graphics processing units, according to a report by the...

  20. Mon, 26 October 2026

    1 report
  21. Wed, 28 October 2026

    1 report
    • South China Morning Post11:00

      Huawei Technologies is already integrating elements of the Tau Scaling Law – a new chip design principle that helps the company overcome US export controls – into its wireless communications network, as it pushes for broader adoption across its products. The Chinese tech giant is using the “time compression” concept based on its Tau Scaling Law in its next-generation wireless base stations, according to a company statement released on Wednesday, and the new design is already delivering...

  22. Thu, 29 October 2026

    1 report
    • South China Morning Post14:00

      Chinese artificial intelligence chipmaker Iluvatar CoreX claims that its new Tiangai 300 graphics processing unit (GPU) can match and even surpass Nvidia’s H200 in real-world AI workloads, highlighting efforts by domestic players to close the technology gap with the US chip giant. In a live demonstration for mainland Chinese media outlets on Wednesday, the Shanghai-based firm showed the Tiangai 300 outperforming the H200 in complex multimodal tasks, including text-to-image and text-to-video...

  23. Sun, 1 November 2026

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  24. Mon, 2 November 2026

    1 report
    • South China Morning Post13:30

      Empyrean Technology, China’s top provider of electronic design automation (EDA) tools, plans to acquire a majority stake in a domestic start-up, reinforcing Beijing’s drive for tech self-sufficiency and bolstering support for Huawei Technologies’ semiconductor ambitions. The Beijing-based firm said in a Shenzhen Stock Exchange filing on Sunday that it would acquire a 50.38 per cent stake in Easy-Logic Technology for 218.8 million yuan (US$33 million). Once completed, the start-up would be...

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