27 February 2025

Huawei Technologies took the crown in China’s smartphone market in January, buoyed by a government subsidy scheme for electronics purchases, according to the latest numbers from industry consultancy Counterpoint Research. Last year’s bestselling brand Vivo came second, followed by Xiaomi. Together, the top three vendors contributed around 54 per cent of the nearly 29 million

Unitree Robotics, one of the hottest start-ups in China, issued a warning about scams that aimed to exploit growing interest from investors seeking to acquire shares of the privately held company amid a frenzy around the humanoid robot sector. “All new Unitree shares and old equity belonging to shareholders are directly managed by the company’s

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang expressed confidence in the continued strong demand for the company’s graphics processing units (GPUs) following the surging popularity of DeepSeek’s compute-efficient models, which comes after the artificial intelligence (AI) chip designer delivered stronger-than-expected results for last quarter. The rise of DeepSeek, which developed large language models at a fraction of the

Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) start-up DeepSeek has been prioritising research over quick financial gains in the month following the release of its reasoning model that sent shock waves across the world, according to sources and media reports. Since its R1 reasoning model made headlines in Silicon Valley and Wall Street, the Hangzhou-based start-up founded by

Nvidia’s strong growth forecast for the first quarter on Wednesday signalled that booming demand for its artificial intelligence (AI) chips was intact, and the company said orders for its new Blackwell semiconductors were “amazing.” The company’s forecast helps allay doubts about a slowdown in spending on its hardware that emerged last month, following Chinese AI