15 April 2025

US internet users are rushing to download a Chinese e-commerce app amid an escalating tariff war between the world’s two largest economies, after videos showing ultra-cheap, made-in-China knock-off designer items went viral on TikTok. DHgate, known as Dunhuang in Chinese and dubbed the “Little Yellow App” by shoppers, climbed to second place in the free […]

China’s Huawei Technologies has launched a new artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure architecture that is reportedly set to rival US chip giant Nvidia’s offerings in addressing computing power bottlenecks. Introduced last week, the CloudMatrix 384 Supernode was described as a “nuclear-level product” that matched Nvidia’s NVL72 system in alleviating computing bottlenecks for AI data centres, STAR

Zhipu AI, a Beijing-based artificial intelligence (AI) unicorn born out of China’s prestigious Tsinghua University, has filed pre-initial public offering (IPO) documents with China’s securities regulator as it eyes a public listing as soon as 2026 amid an increasingly competitive domestic landscape. The 6-year-old company submitted the tutoring documents to the Beijing Securities Regulatory Bureau

Nvidia, the dominant player in chips for artificial intelligence models, plans to produce as much as half a trillion dollars’ worth of AI infrastructure in the US over the next four years through manufacturing partnerships. Production of Nvidia’s latest generation AI chip, known as Blackwell, has begun at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co’s new plant in