By Stephen Nellis (Reuters) – U.S. export controls on sending advanced computing chips to China are not meant to hold back China’s economy or technological development, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said during an interview with National Public Radio on Friday. Since 2022, U.S. officials have imposed sweeping controls on which computing chips can be …
“China’s growing power and expansion in emerging [technologies] are key to driving momentum of the global shifts in technology and the geopolitical landscape,” Maria Papageorgiou, study author and a lecturer at the University of Exeter in Britain, said in a university statement on Monday. The development of emerging technologies, which have “unpredictable implications” on national …
Since its release in August last year, Pangu has revolutionised weather forecasting, offering quicker and more accurate predictions than traditional meteorological methods. Pangu-Weather first burst onto the scene in July 2023, when a paper detailing the AI model was published in the journal, Nature. A month later, it was launched on the European Centre for …
Ren on Thursday met Dai Houliang, chairman of both the state-owned China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) and its listed arm PetroChina, in Shenzhen where they discussed “improving corporate governance, digital transformation and intelligent development, as well as scientific and technological innovation”, according to a report on Friday by China Petroleum Daily, the CNPC’s official newspaper. …
Apple is enlarging its applied research operations in mainland China, as the US technology giant’s iPhone sales slow in the world’s largest smartphone market amid increased competition from Huawei Technologies and other major domestic handset vendors. Cupertino, California-based Apple plans to expand its research centre in Shanghai to support all of its product lines and …
The Ascend 910B is believed to succeed the Ascend 910, which was released by Huawei in August 2019, three months after it was put on a trade blacklist by the US Commerce Department. The chip can compete with Nvidia’s A100 in terms of powering AI algorithms, according to Dylan Patel, chief analyst at San Francisco-based …
At a nearby booth in the same MWC Barcelona exhibition floor, Xiaomi displayed its new flagship handset model, the 14 Ultra, which features enhanced photography features and AI capabilities. The handset’s AI Album Search function employs natural language processing that enables users to locate specific images within their collections based on a prompt describing them, …
SHENZHEN, China (Reuters) – China’s Huawei Technologies will not support Android apps on the latest iteration of its in-house Harmony operating system, domestic financial media Caixin reported, as the company looks to bolster its own software ecosystem. The company plans to roll out a developer version of its HarmonyOS Next platform in the second quarter …
By Yelin Mo and Fanny Potkin BEIJING/SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Chinese chip designers including Tencent Holdings are aggressively pitching their AI chips as alternatives to Nvidia’s, hoping U.S. export restrictions will prompt clients to switch, said four people familiar with such discussions. California-based Nvidia commands as much as 90% of China’s $7 billion market for chips …