9 h. ago Exclusive: Nexperia's China unit switches to local firms for wafer supplies, document shows

Exclusive: Nexperia's China unit switches to local firms for wafer supplies, document shows  Reuters

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13 h. ago Exclusive: Nexperia's China unit switches to local firms for wafer supplies

Exclusive: Nexperia's China unit switches to local firms for wafer supplies- document  Reuters

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6 d. ago China receives evidence from Russia on notorious Japanese Unit 731

China receives evidence from Russia on notorious Japanese Unit 731  Xinhua

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7 d. ago Exclusive: Intel has tested chipmaking tools from firm with sanctioned China unit, sources say

Exclusive: Intel has tested chipmaking tools from firm with sanctioned China unit, sources say  Reuters

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7 d. ago China urged to bring Japan’s Unit 731 to court for crimes against humanity

The 2025 film Nuremberg ends with a sober line from British historian R.G. Collingwood: “The only clue to what man can do is what man has done” – a stark reminder that history repeats when justice does not. While the crimes of Nazi Germany were brought before an international tribunal 80 years ago, the atrocities committed by Japan’s secret Unit 731 in northeast China’s Heilongjiang province during the second world war – have never faced a comparable legal reckoning. The covert unit conducted...

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7 d. ago China urged to bring Japan’s Unit 731 atrocities to international court

China urged to bring Japan’s Unit 731 atrocities to international court  South China Morning Post

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9 d. ago China’s Fosun Pharma unit strikes US$2.1 billion obesity drug deal with Pfizer

US pharmaceutical behemoth Pfizer has agreed to pay up to US$2.1 billion to Shanghai-based Fosun Pharma’s unit Yao Pharma for an experimental oral obesity drug, underscoring the growing trend of Chinese drug makers selling early-stage assets to global multinationals. Under the licensing agreement, Yao Pharma would grant Pfizer an exclusive worldwide licence for the development, use, manufacturing and commercialisation of oral small-molecule drugs known as GLP-1 receptor agonists, including...

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1 week ago Former Chinese senior banker executed for taking US$155 million in bribes

China has executed a former senior banker who was found guilty of taking more than 1.1 billion yuan (US$155 million) in bribes. Bai Tianhui, the former general manager of the asset management firm China Huarong International Holdings, was executed on Tuesday after the Supreme People’s Court approved the sentence, state broadcaster CCTV reported. The state-owned offshore unit Bai ran was taken over by Citic Group and renamed China Citic Financial Asset Management in January last year. It is rare...

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1 week ago Former Chinese senior banker Bai Tianhui executed for taking US$155 million in bribes

China has executed a former senior banker who was found guilty of taking more than 1.1 billion yuan (US$155 million) in bribes. Bai Tianhui, the former general manager of the asset management firm China Huarong International Holdings, was executed on Tuesday after the Supreme People’s Court approved the sentence, state broadcaster CCTV reported. The state-owned offshore unit Bai ran was taken over by Citic Group and renamed China Citic Financial Asset Management in January last year. It is rare...

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1 week ago China executes former official of Huarong offshore finance unit for graft

China executes former official of Huarong offshore finance unit for graft  Reuters

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1 week ago China AI chipmaker MetaX draws more IPO investors than Moore Threads

Shanghai-based chip firm MetaX Integrated Circuits has emerged as the latest star in mainland China’s stock market, with the graphics processing unit (GPU) maker proving to be even more popular among retail investors than peer Moore Threads ahead of its trading debut. MetaX attracted 5.17 million retail investors for its online subscription, giving it a final allotment rate of 0.033 per cent, according to a stock exchange filing on Monday. Beijing-based Moore Threads drew 4.82 million retail...

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1 week ago China’s fever for AI chip stocks persists as MetaX draws more investors than Moore Threads

Shanghai-based chip firm MetaX Integrated Circuits has emerged as the latest star in mainland China’s stock market, with the graphics processing unit (GPU) maker proving to be even more popular among retail investors than peer Moore Threads ahead of its trading debut. MetaX attracted 5.17 million retail investors for its online subscription, giving it a final allotment rate of 0.033 per cent, according to a stock exchange filing on Monday. Beijing-based Moore Threads drew 4.82 million retail...

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2 w. ago Moore Threads aspires to become ‘leading global player’ in AI chips after IPO

Moore Threads, a five-year-old graphics processing unit (GPU) developer created by Nvidia’s former China chief, aspires to become one of the leading global players in artificial intelligence chip development, its founder and CEO Zhang Jianzhong said. Zhang, Nvidia’s China general manager from 2006 to 2020, was quoted as saying by the official Shanghai Securities Journal that the start-up would introduce a new-generation chip each year to provide key hardware for China’s AI development. “Our goal...

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3 w. ago World’s largest compressed air energy storage plant in China gets turbine unit

World’s largest compressed air energy storage plant in China gets turbine unit  Interesting Engineering

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3 w. ago Nexperia Urges China Unit to Restore Chip Flow Amid Fears of Supply Squeeze

Nexperia Urges China Unit to Restore Chip Flow Amid Fears of Supply Squeeze  The Wall Street Journal

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3 w. ago Nexperia’s Supply Chain Crisis Deepens as It Presses China Unit to Talk

Nexperia’s Supply Chain Crisis Deepens as It Presses China Unit to Talk  eWeek

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3 w. ago Nexperia issues open letter urging “open dialogue” with China unit as customers report imminent production stoppages

Nexperia issues open letter urging “open dialogue” with China unit as customers report imminent production stoppages  Automotive Logistics

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3 w. ago What’s going on at Nexperia? Dutch chipmaker issues urgent plea to its China unit

What’s going on at Nexperia? Dutch chipmaker issues urgent plea to its China unit  CNBC

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3 w. ago Nexperia urges China unit to resume chip production amid supply disruption

Nexperia urges China unit to resume chip production amid supply disruption  Investing.com

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3 w. ago Tencent Cloud and Cartesia find a rare common voice in AI speech applications

In a rare instance of China-US cooperation on a sensitive frontier technology, Tencent Holdings’ cloud unit has struck a partnership with San Francisco start-up Cartesia to develop next-generation voice artificial intelligence applications. Tencent Cloud said in a statement on Tuesday that it had formed a “strategic partnership” with Cartesia, which last month raised US$100 million for its text-to-speech model, Sonic 3. Tencent’s “enterprise-grade global real-time communication infrastructure”...

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