News with the tag "Huawei"

Tencent has started testing the integration of DeepSeek AI into Weixin, China’s most popular super app. Weixin users can currently try DeepSeek’s AI-powered search by choosing the “AI Search” option from the app’s search bar. The feature does not exist on WeChat, which is an international variation ...

While international hostilities continue to be a hot topic, Chinese chip makers and cloud service providers appear to be making concerted efforts to support DeepSeek and other locally made AI models. DeepSeek is receiving special attention from its home country, which also has some of the biggest te...

Huawei is working on gaining a large part of the AI market in China, which is currently led by Nvidia. It offers local companies the ability to use their AI chips for “inference” tasks. To “train” LLMs, major AI companies in China depend on GPUs developed by Nvidia. The company stands at 3.4 trillio...

Samsung wants to crush the competition in consumer electronics, and AI is its weapon of choice. The company wants to outpace the growth projected for the global consumer electronics market in 2025. CEO Jong-Hee Han, who also heads Samsung’s Device eXperience (DX) division, said they’re expecting a 4...

The US government is preparing to blacklist Chinese company Sophgo over its role in an illegal chip scandal tied to Huawei, according to recent reports . Sophgo allegedly provided a key AI chip for Huawei’s Ascend 910B processor—one of the most advanced AI chips ever developed by a Chinese company. ...

AI chip makers received positive news as major semiconductor manufacturers saw significant gains in their stocks following reports that the U.S. is considering less stringent restrictions on technology exports to China. The latest news out of the rapidly developing Donald Trump administration was we...

Chinese firm Huawei plans to commence the mass production of its latest AI chips during the first quarter of 2025, despite US restrictions on the importation of advanced chips into the Asian country. According to a Reuters report which cited two people familiar with the matter, Huawei is already bat...

TSMC has announced suspension of production of its most advanced AI chips to China effective Monday, on geopolitical tensions between the West and the East. The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) notified its Chinese chip design companies of the suspension as the US continues to thwar...

Washington has thrown all its weight behind trying to keep this tech out of China’s hands. But somehow, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC)’s circuitry is powering Huawei’s latest Ascend 910B chips, designed for artificial intelligence. U.S. officials have been scrambling to keep Huawei of...

No need to download or pull up an app to pay with the Chinese CBDC on Huawei phones now.