22 March 2025

Shanghai-based semiconductor start-up StarFive aims to boost adoption of its chips with the financial backing of the Hong Kong government, according to its founder, as China bets on the open-source RISC-V architecture to strengthen its chip industry amid escalating tensions with the US. The six-year-old RISC-V chipmaker secured an undisclosed sum from the Hong Kong […]

A state-backed semiconductor tool maker based in Shenzhen, which has connections with Huawei Technologies and has raised hopes of China reducing its reliance on US chipmaking technologies, will make its debut at a trade event in Shanghai next week. SiCarrier, a chip tool maker backed by the Shenzhen government, will launch new products during the

Xpeng, a maker of premium electric vehicles (EVs), chose Hong Kong as its first stop outside mainland China to set up a self-branded supercharging station, as the industry’s ambition extends to charging technologies. On Friday, the company said it would partner with Malaysian car distributor Sime Darby to build its first charging station in Hong

The Chinese technology giant’s latest offering, launched on Friday, leverages large-scale reinforcement learning, a technique also employed by DeepSeek in its R1 reasoning model, which launched in January. The release is an official version of the model after a beta run of T1-preview on its chatbot Yuanbao. It scored 87.2 points on the Massive Multitask

DeepSeek’s launch of its latest open-source models has heralded China’s own “ChatGPT moment” by igniting a frenzy around artificial intelligence (AI) adoption, while raising questions about the viability of developing pre-trained in-house models, according to Lee Kai-fu, founder and CEO of Chinese start-up 01.AI. In an interview with the South China Morning Post on Friday,

China’s biggest electric vehicle (EV) maker BYD launched its most expensive model under its Denza brand to challenge BMW and Mercedes-Benz in the luxury segment as competition in the world’s largest auto market intensifies. The Denza unit on Friday unveiled the six-seat SUV called Denza N9, priced at 389,800 (US$60,860) to 449,800 yuan, which is