China and Cuba held talks on expanding agricultural cooperation in Beijing on Tuesday, the latest in a series of moves by Beijing to shore up support for the Caribbean island as Washington intensifies a campaign of sanctions, criminal indictments and military posturing against Havana. Chinese Vice-Minister of Agriculture and Rural Affairs Zhang Zhili met Cuban Deputy Agriculture Minister Telce Gonzalez to review joint projects and explore new areas of collaboration in the sector. The Cuban...
Chinese tech giant Huawei Technologies said it had found a way to make semiconductors on a par with the best worldwide without having to use cutting-edge chipmaking equipment it is unable to access due to US sanctions. The breakthrough will allow Huawei to make high-end chips that are equivalent to 1.4 nanometres by 2031, He Tingbo, president of the companyโs semiconductor business, told a tech conference in Shanghai on Monday. TSMC, the worldโs biggest producer of advanced semiconductors, plans...
When He Tingbo took the stage in Shanghai this week to unveil Huawei Technologiesโ Tau (ฯ) Scaling Law, the message was about more than a new chip development framework. It was also a statement, showing how the most prominent Chinese technology company to have been subjected to US sanctions wants to compete in semiconductors when access to the worldโs most advanced chipmaking tools remains restricted, and when the industryโs decades-old reliance on shrinking transistors is becoming more...
For the first time, China has included artificial intelligence chips in its official โsecure and reliableโ technology assessments, expanding the scope of a state-backed drive to adopt domestic alternatives to Western products. The China Information Technology Security Evaluation Centre and the National Secrecy Science and Technology Evaluation Centre released the latest batch of assessments on Tuesday, creating a new category for โAI training and inference chipsโ. The certifications were valid...
Huawei Technologiesโ unveiling of a chip architectural workaround to bypass US sanctions marks a major step towards Chinaโs semiconductor self-sufficiency, giving Beijing powerful new leverage in its tech tug of war with Washington, analysts say. The Chinese tech giant captured global attention on Monday by introducing the new Tau (ฯ) Scaling Law, which it said lay the groundwork for Huawei to achieve transistor density equivalent to a 1.4-nanometre process in high-end chips by 2031. If proven,...
Nine people targeted, including Lebanese military officers.
Hezbollah says the sanctions will have 'absolutely no effect' on its strategy amid ongoing Israeli attacks on Lebanon.
From sanctions to rare earths, the economic rivalry between the US and China is intensifying.
The United States has sanctioned a total of nine mainland Chinese and Hong Kong companies and individuals accused of helping Iranโs military. The decision, which risks complicating Donald Trumpโs visit to China next week, was announced on Friday by the Treasury and State departments. A Treasury Department press release said those targeted were โenabling efforts by Iranโs military to secure weaponsโ or securing โraw materials with applications in Iranโs Shahedโseries unmanned aerial vehicles and...