5 January 2025

On December 3, 2024, China imposed its most stringent set of critical mineral restrictions after the United States not only slapped export controls on 24 types of chipmaking equipment and three categories of software essential for semiconductor development, but also added 140 Chinese companies to the export control list. While these measures and countermeasures have […]

The market share of foreign smartphone brands in China, mainly Apple, has plunged by nearly half from a year ago, according to government data, as the iPhone maker navigates increased competition from domestic vendors including Huawei Technologies. Overseas handset makers shipped 3.04 million units in China in November, a 47.3 per cent decrease from 5.77

Under the deal, the cloud computing and AI unit of Alibaba will provide exclusive technology support for RayNeo’s products through its Qwen large language models (LLMs), the companies said on Thursday. LLMs are the technology underpinning generative AI services such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT. “This partnership represents a new application of the Qwen LLM in the