China’s supply chain under scrutiny amid report HP shifting more PC production overseas

China’s supply chain under scrutiny amid report HP shifting more PC production overseas

United States-based personal computer giant HP said it remains committed to its operations in China after denying a report that it was shifting more production outside the world’s second-largest economy, which sparked fresh scrutiny of the mainland’s manufacturing supply chain. HP – the world’s second-largest PC vendor behind Lenovo Group, according to research firm IDC … Read more

Opinion | Southeast Asia cannot be a bystander amid escalating global crises

Opinion | Southeast Asia cannot be a bystander amid escalating global crises

This fuzziness is not new of course. The securitisation of global economic networks stretches back decades with the United States wielding tools including dollar weaponisation and trade sanctions, as well as using capital for geopolitical gains. China’s past economic coercion of Australia and Vietnam is simply a borrowed play by a different team. Unsurprisingly, as … Read more

Chinese EV maker Xpeng says partnership with Nvidia unaffected by US trade sanctions

Chinese EV maker Xpeng says partnership with Nvidia unaffected by US trade sanctions

Chinese electric vehicle (EV) start-up Xpeng said its partnership with Nvidia has not been affected by tighter US trade sanctions, but it will keep its options open with local suppliers. “We’re very happy with our collaboration with Nvidia and other silicon partners,” Brian Gu Hong-di, vice-chairman and president of Xpeng Motors, said during a press … Read more

Tech war: China memory chip maker CXMT may have made a breakthrough amid US sanctions, paper indicates

Tech war: China memory chip maker CXMT may have made a breakthrough amid US sanctions, paper indicates

A leading Chinese memory chip maker may have achieved another technological breakthrough amid tight US trade restrictions, according to third-party analysis of a company paper delivered to an international conference. ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT), China’s top dynamic random access memory (DRAM) developer, this week presented a paper to the 69th annual IEEE International Electron Devices … Read more