12 h. ago TikTok reaches new US deal; China’s answer to Nvidia’s A100: SCMP daily highlights

Catch up on some of SCMP’s biggest China stories of the day. If you would like to see more of our reporting, please consider subscribing. 1. TikTok reaches deal on new US venture with American investor group In a landmark move that ends years of legal and political uncertainty, TikTok CEO Chew Shou Zi informed employees that the company has signed a binding agreement to divest its US entity into a joint venture controlled by a consortium of American investors. 2. Chinese team builds optical chip...

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25 h. ago Chinese team builds optical chip AI that is 100 times faster than Nvidia’s market leader

Chinese scientists have unveiled an optical computing chip that outperformed Nvidia’s leading AI hardware by over a hundredfold in speed and energy efficiency – particularly for generative tasks such as video production and image synthesis. The LightGen chip was developed by a team from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Tsinghua University, harnessing the speed of light to execute complex artificial intelligence workloads. With more than 2 million photonic neurons integrated into a compact chip,...

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25 h. ago Chinese team builds optical chip AI that is 100 times faster than Nvidia’s A100

Chinese team builds optical chip AI that is 100 times faster than Nvidia’s A100  South China Morning Post

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3 d. ago MetaX set for Shanghai debut amid market frenzy over AI chip stocks, Nvidia uncertainty

Chinese artificial intelligence chip designer MetaX Integrated Circuits will make its trading debut in Shanghai on Wednesday, according to a filing late on Monday, more than a week after industry peer Moore Threads Technology’s stellar listing on the city’s Star Market. Founded in Shanghai in September 2020 by former engineers at Advanced Micro Devices, MetaX priced its initial public offering at 104.66 yuan per share, which was expected to raise 4.2 billion yuan (US$596 million) from the sale...

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4 d. ago Why Nvidia’s H200 is unlikely to derail chip ambitions of China’s Huawei, Moore Threads

The US approval for Nvidia’s H200 artificial intelligence processors will give China a much-needed boost in computing power rather than pose a direct threat to domestic chips, even though the US chip is more powerful than rivals from Huawei Technologies and Moore Threads, according to analysts. With a total processing performance (TPP) of 15,832, the H200 has surpassed all AI chips made by domestic vendors on the market so far as well as Nvidia’s H20, which was previously the most advanced...

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9 d. ago What to know about Nvidia's Chinese competitors as Trump opens up the market

What to know about Nvidia's Chinese competitors as Trump opens up the market  Axios

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1 week ago Trump opens door for Nvidia in China — but both the market and Beijing shrug

Trump opens door for Nvidia in China — but both the market and Beijing shrug  Axios

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1 week ago Jensen Huang Wins Big: Nvidia Regains Access to China’s A.I. Market

Jensen Huang Wins Big: Nvidia Regains Access to China’s A.I. Market  observer.com

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1 week ago Chinese team reports way to extract hypersonic weapon fuel boron from seawater

Scientists from Northwest A&F University in China have developed an innovative technology to extract and collect boron from seawater. Boron is a lightweight element used as solid fuel in scramjet engines on some advanced Chinese hypersonic weapons. Neodymium-iron-boron rare earth magnets – used extensively in industrial and military applications – have drawn particular attention amid ongoing trade tensions over critical minerals. These high-performance rare-earth magnets not only rely on...

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2 w. ago As China defies US tech blockade, can local AI chipmakers capture Nvidia share?

With the technology race between the United States and China, the world’s two largest economies, intensifying even though a trade truce was reached in late October, analysts say the prospects of China achieving self-sufficiency in semiconductors and artificial intelligence (AI) are positive, despite American efforts to maintain leads in those fields. “If any country can do it [achieve self-sufficiency in semiconductors], it’s China, owing to its vast resources and pool of engineering talent,”...

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2 w. ago US senators seek ban on Nvidia’s advanced chips to China, experts warn ‘shortsighted’ move further erodes Nvidia’s back into Chinese market

US senators seek ban on Nvidia’s advanced chips to China, experts warn ‘shortsighted’ move further erodes Nvidia’s back into Chinese market  Global Times

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2 w. ago Chinese Research Team Launches Quantum Computing Platform Aimed at Speeding Scientific Work

Chinese Research Team Launches Quantum Computing Platform Aimed at Speeding Scientific Work  The Quantum Insider

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2 w. ago China’s top AI chip firms set for bumper IPOs as Nvidia kept out of market

China’s Nvidia challengers Moore Threads and MetaX are set for their hotly anticipated market debuts, driven by investor excitement over domestic demand for home-grown graphics processing units (GPUs) amid Beijing’s tech self-sufficiency drive. Beijing-based GPU maker Moore Threads, which was 4,000 times oversubscribed after launching its 8 billion yuan (US$1.13 billion) initial public offering (IPO) last week, will be listed on Shanghai’s Nasdaq-style Star Market on Friday, according to a...

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2 w. ago China Ghosts Nvidia — But Huang Says Global AI Market Could Hit $4T

China Ghosts Nvidia — But Huang Says Global AI Market Could Hit $4T  Benzinga

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3 w. ago Chinese scientists create super stable building block for quantum computers

Chinese physicist Pan Jianwei and his team have created a “quantum Lego block” that refuses to fall apart – even when shaken. Using a programmable quantum processor named Zuchongzhi 2, Pan’s team has simulated an exotic new state of matter where quantum effects are locked into the corners of a material, according to a paper published in the peer-reviewed journal Science on Friday. These corner states are protected by the deep laws of topology – a kind of quantum armour against errors and...

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3 w. ago Xiaomi hires engineer from Tesla’s Optimus team to lead robotic hand development

Xiaomi has hired a former engineer from Tesla’s Optimus team, Zach Lu Zeyu, to join the Chinese tech giant’s robotics initiatives, as the talent grab in the industry intensifies. Lu, previously a senior robotics engineer focused on the Optimus humanoid robot, joined Xiaomi last month to lead the Beijing-based firm’s dexterous hand research and development operations, according to his LinkedIn page. During his two years at Tesla, Lu worked on the design for dexterous grasping and manipulation, as...

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3 w. ago Chinese team cuts laser weapon, EV part production time from 1 hour to 1 second

Chinese scientists have reduced the production time of dielectric energy storage capacitor components to just one second, enabling scalable, temperature-stable storage for hybrid electric vehicles, radar systems and high-power lasers. Unlike other methods that can take from three minutes to an hour depending on the product quality, the team’s flash annealing technique heats and cools at a rate of 1,000 degrees Celsius per second, allowing for rapid synthesis of crystal films on a silicon wafer...

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3 w. ago Can apples fight cancer? Only if they partner with gut agent, Chinese team finds

The potential cancer-fighting effects of the antioxidant quercetin – found in a variety of foods including onions, apples and durian – are partly dependent on the presence of microbes in our gut, a Chinese research team has found. Quercetin has shown promise in preventing tumour metastasis and growth in various studies, though the exact mechanism behind how the compound may inhibit cancer growth remains elusive. Through experiments in mice, the team from Shandong University found that a...

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4 w. ago Dutch retreat on China’s Nexperia signals faster chip decoupling

Dutch retreat on China’s Nexperia signals faster chip decoupling  Asia Times

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4 w. ago Market Voices: BLS cancels Oct. CPI, Fed rates, Nvidia CEO on China

Market Voices: BLS cancels Oct. CPI, Fed rates, Nvidia CEO on China  MSN

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