17 May 2025

Revenue for HiSilicon, Huawei Technologies’ chip design unit, doubled last year owing to the telecoms equipment giant’s comeback in the high-end smartphone market, although its long-term growth still faces challenges, according to Counterpoint Research. HiSilicon’s “strong and loyal customer base in China” helped revenue jump 100 per cent in 2024, according to a report published […]

Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) research lab DeepSeek has released a new research paper revealing in detail for the first time how it built one of the world’s most powerful open-source AI systems at a fraction of the cost of its competitors. “Insights into DeepSeek-V3: Scaling Challenges and Reflections on Hardware for AI Architectures”, co-authored by

Nvidia chief executive officer Jensen Huang expressed confidence in his company’s trade partners and said there’s no evidence of its prized semiconductors being diverted to the Chinese market. Nvidia’s hardware is too large to be easily smuggled across borders and its customers are aware of the rules and self-monitoring, Huang told Bloomberg News in Taipei.

Hong Kong-based venture capital firm ORI Capital plans to launch a new fund to invest in Chinese healthcare start-ups, as the domestic biotechnology industry experiences its own “DeepSeek moment”, its founder said in an interview. ORI, established in 2015 with two funds that primarily invest in global biotech start-ups, is in the process of raising