19 May 2025

Smartphone giant Xiaomi is one of China’s top three investors in semiconductor development on the back of a 10-year, 50 billion yuan (US$6.9 billion) spending programme, according to company founder, chairman and chief executive Lei Jun. In a Monday post on Chinese microblogging site Weibo, Lei wrote that Xiaomi achieved the milestone as of April […]

Huawei Technologies on Monday launched two new laptops, including a model with a foldable screen, that run its self-developed HarmonyOS operating system, which the company is pushing across devices after its Microsoft Windows license expired in March. The Huawei MateBook Fold Ultimate Design takes the form of an 18-inch tablet, with a thickness of just

Nvidia, the world’s leading supplier of artificial intelligence (AI) chips, intends to acquire a larger office in Taiwan and collaborate with local technology firms to develop a “supercomputer”, CEO Jensen Huang said on Monday ahead of a trade show in Taipei. The US semiconductor giant, which reported US$130.5 billion in revenue in its most recent

Chinese state-backed energy giant Huaneng Group on Thursday launched the world’s largest fleet of unmanned electric mining trucks in Inner Mongolia, featuring 100 vehicles equipped with Huawei Technologies’ autonomous driving systems, as the country rapidly adopts driverless technology. Li Shuxue, chairman of Huaneng Mengdong, a subsidiary of Huaneng Group, said the trucks – named Huaneng