TeTencent Games said on Monday it will launch a mobile version of Dungeon and Fighter on May 21, a game seven years in development, after the Chinese tech giant obtained approval from China’s National Press and Publication Administration in February.…
Shares of Chinese electric vehicle maker Li Auto fell as much as 8.3% in Hong Kong on Monday and were nearly 5.6% lower on the Nasdaq, reflecting investors’ concerns that its first official price cuts will put pressure on profit margins.…
Chinese electric vehicle brand Zeekr has grabbed the spotlight again after unveiling one of the finest luxury vans Chinese consumers can buy.…
Alibaba’s cloud computing unit will offer free training, inferencing, and deployment services based on Meta’s new Llama 3 open-source model for a limited period to local enterprises and developers, Alibaba Cloud said on Monday in a WeChat post on its official account.…
Amid recovering demand and the end of inventory adjustments, global PC shipments increased around 3% year-on-year in the first quarter of 2024 to reach 57.1 million units after eight consecutive quarters of decline, according to market research firm Counterpoint Research.…
The US House of Representatives voted 360-58 on an updated bill on April 20 to force Chinese firm ByteDance to sell its short video app TikTok or see it banned.…
FIMI, a subsidiary of Xiaomi that specializes in producing drones and related accessories, recently launched the FIMI Mini 3 drone for the global market, featuring a Sony 1/2-inch 48MP CMOS sensor and a lightweight of 249g.…
The development of modern computer science is marked by humanity’s relentless push towards the boundaries of computing efficiency: new technologies led to new applications, digital services expanded, super platforms emerged, internet traffic surged, energy consumption increased, fundamental technologies advanced, and eventually computational efficiency improved.…
China’s Ant Group, Baidu, iFlytek, and Tencent joined US AI firms including OpenAI and Meta in working on two global GenAI and LLM-focused standards which were published by the United Nations on Tuesday.…
On Thursday, Huawei unveiled a letter on the Chinese X-like social media platform Weibo to announce the Pura 70 Series Pioneer Program, a scheme for people to purchase devices from its latest mobile phone series without holding a launch event.…
An industry-wide price war in the Chinese car market has escalated to an unsustainable level, which has been ongoing for more than a year and could pressure some automakers to slash prices by another 20-30% in 2024, according to the head of Bosch’s China operations.…
China’s Li Auto on Thursday introduced its smallest model ever: an extended-range hybrid crossover that it hopes will contribute a large portion of its total sales this year.…
China’s food delivery company Meituan has appointed Senior Vice President Wang Puzhong as CEO of its new core local commerce business, marking the first time the firm has had two chief executives.…
“Three, two, one! Show [shopping] link!” Richard Liu, founder of Chinese e-commerce company JD, debuted his livestreaming show on Tuesday – using an avatar in his likeness.…
In the first quarter, China’s chip production surged by 40% year-on-year to reach 98.1 billion units, a sign that China’s mature process chip capacity is rapidly expanding, despite constraints imposed by the US on advanced processes, according to the South China Morning Post.…
Volkswagen and Xpeng Motors have inked a deal to develop a high-performance electrical/electronic architecture that will underpin upcoming China-made, VW-branded models starting 2026, the companies said on Wednesday.…
Japan’s Honda Motor said on Tuesday it is introducing a new electric vehicle brand in China, and will use components from local companies including CATL, Huawei, and iFlyTek as it looks to adapt to significant changes in the highly competitive Chinese car market.…
Nvidia’s use of TSMC’s Chip-on-Wafer-on-Substrate (CoWoS) packaging for its new Blackwell platform products has led to the Taiwanese manufacturer ramping up its production capacity for 2024.…
BYD on Tuesday unveiled the first supercar under its premium off-road electric vehicle brand called Fangchengbao, which promises ultimate performance and luxury with bold design treatments — the latest example of Chinese automakers going upscale and competing in the high-end segment.…
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China (MIIT) has released industry standards for cross-platform interconnectivity in domestic smart home devices, effective from July.…
China’s search engine operator Baidu said Tuesday the number of users of its AI-driven ERNIE Bot has doubled to over 200 million in four months, declaring itself a leader in artificial intelligence, as competitors rush into the sector.…
Chinese automaker GAC Group said on April 12 that it had broken through several obstacles regarding the durability and safety of “all-solid-state” batteries, and expected its future rollout of the technology to offer drivers a range of over 620 miles per charge by 2026. …
Stellantis-brands Maserati and Alfa Romeo are among the potential partners to China’s Chery Auto in order to acquire advanced Chinese electric vehicle platform technology for their upcoming battery cars, a person with knowledge of the matter told National Business Daily, without revealing further details.…
On Monday, Huawei announced its new Pura 70 series smartphones, which were previously expected to be named the P70 series. The Chinese telecom giant has not yet disclosed the release date for the new devices, but tech media outlet IThome reported that a member of sales staff at a Huawei store in Beijing had claimed that the series is expected to arrive in store around April 18.…
In the first quarter of 2024, global smartphone shipments increased by 7.8% to 289.4 million units compared to the previous year, according to market intelligence firm IDC.…
Open-source models “make little sense” according to Baidu CEO Robin Li in an internal company memo in which he argued that closed-source models have stronger capabilities, Chinese media outlets reported on Weekend.…
Intel is preparing to launch modified Gaudi 3 chips for the Chinese market when it releases the new generation AI accelerator chip this year, according to British technology media outlet The Register.…
Chinese electric vehicle maker Li Auto said on April 13 that it has no plans at the moment to begin selling plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) in Uzbekistan, adding that the images showing its executives signing agreements with a dealership are fake.…
Tencent Cloud said an 87-minute-long outage affecting customers in 17 regions worldwide last Monday was caused by cloud API anomalies, the latest among China’s internet giants’ cloud service crashes that impacted dozens of products.…
Huawei announced today that the Huawei P series smartphones will be renamed to Huawei Pura, with the upcoming P70 expected to become the first product in the new Pura series.…