Beijing is set to spend 33 billion yuan (US$4.6 billion) building a 12-inch wafer fabrication facility, led by state-owned enterprises and funds, marking another step in China’s efforts to boost domestic semiconductor production Leading firms involved in the new facility include Beijing Yandong Microelectronics (YDME), which is listed on Shanghai’s Star Market, and BOE Technology, … Read more
“US long-arm sanctions on China’s semiconductor sector have proven to be porous,” said Arisa Liu, a research fellow and director at the Taiwan Institute of Economic Research. The discovery has caused a scramble to find explanations for what happened. TSMC has since halted shipments to an unnamed customer after discovering one of its chips supplied … Read more
Chinese tech firm Xiaomi has been credited for designing the nation’s first 3-nanometre smartphone chip, but the company has stayed silent on the matter. Tang Jianguo, chief economist of the municipal economy and information technology bureau in charge of Beijing’s hi-tech industry, said Xiaomi successfully “taped out” China’s first 3-nm-grade mobile chip, in a news … Read more
China’s semiconductor industry is continuing to make incremental steps in advancing its domestic lithography tools, according to specifications publicised by the central government, but analysts say the country has yet to make the big leaps it would take to catch up to Dutch firm ASML. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), which oversees … Read more
A Huawei Technologies executive said that developing artificial intelligence (AI) technology does not solely depend on access to advanced semiconductors, downplaying the impact of US sanctions on the Chinese tech giant. Zhang Ping’an, chief executive of Huawei Cloud Computing Technologies, said that the company is seeking to reduce its reliance on semiconductors by shifting some … Read more
The Biden administration has revoked eight licences this year that had allowed some companies to ship goods to Chinese telecoms equipment giant Huawei Technologies, according to a document first reported by Reuters, as it seeks to pressure the resurgent company. The Commerce Department, which oversees US export policy, said in May it had revoked “certain” … Read more
Chinese telecoms equipment giant Huawei Technologies is planning to work closely with domestic universities to boost basic research and draw in fresh talent, founder and CEO Ren Zhengfei said during a visit to Sichuan University. Ren visited the university on June 5 in southwestern China, where he said that US-sanctioned Huawei is working closely with … Read more
Beijing called the move “a typical economic coercion practice” and a violation of US commitment to not decouple from China. It “will take all necessary measures to safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese firms,” a spokesperson of China’s commerce ministry said on Wednesday. Huawei’s consumer business chief Richard Yu Chengdong holding the company’s … Read more
Apple reported the biggest drop in iPhone sales since late 2020 during Thursday’s earnings call, in one of the biggest signs yet of weakening demand for the US tech giant’s products in the world’s largest smartphone market amid strong competition from Chinese brands such as Huawei Technologies. Revenue from iPhones, Apple’s bread-and-butter business, fell 10 … Read more
A Japanese electronics consultancy has denied that it conducted a teardown analysis of Huawei Technologies’ new Pura 70 smartphone, after a widely-circulated Chinese social media post claimed that the research firm found mostly locally-sourced components in the device. “I never commented on the Pura 70 to anyone because we have not received the product,” said … Read more
