In an accompanying statement, the cyberspace commission – Beijing’s top internet watchdog – identified the plan’s main challenges as ineffective application of existing standards in the bureaucracy, as well as a need to build China’s global standing. “There is a lack of coordination across departments, and issues such as missing, misplaced and conflicting standards have … Read more
“Frontier technologies and future industries represented by new materials, biopharmaceuticals, gene technology, and deep sea, air and space exploration, have created an unprecedented demand for computing power infrastructure. “A unified computing system would optimise resources, lower costs and help the country to achieve breakthroughs in cutting-edge tech such as quantum information.” 01:36 AI chip maker … Read more
Huang added that Zhuhai would forge closer links with Hong Kong and Macau to attract more consumers to the city. “The development of a region or a city depends on policies in the short term, population in the medium term but the city’s services in the long run,” Huang said. 01:27 Construction of Greater Bay … Read more
Beijing has launched a public computing platform to support China’s artificial intelligence (AI) development at a time when the US is dialling up its export restrictions on advanced semiconductors critical to training and upscaling AI technologies. The Beijing AI Public Computing Platform, or Shangzhuang project, is operated by state-backed Beijing Energy Holding (BEH), with an … Read more
