Chips, models, robots, and the companies building China's technology
Published in Nature Electronics, a Donghua University team built transistors, logic, light and sensing circuits inside continuous fibers — a route to weaving electronic skin for robots.
Published in Cell, a Chinese team mapped rice from seed to grain across cell, location, and time — merging genome, single-cell, and spatial sequencing for precision breeding.
CNPC finished the Zhentan-1 well in the Tarim Basin — the second ultra-deep well by China's first domestic 12,000-meter rig, which ended reliance on imported deep-well equipment.
LimX Dynamics and Kyland replaced the foreign operating system, industrial bus, tools, and AI chip inside a humanoid. What changed, and what is still unproven.
A single storage point now holds 1,024 states instead of two, published in Nature Photonics. A DVD-sized disc could theoretically hold 0.4 petabytes.
The world's first humanoid-robot plant built for 10,000 units a year is running in Liuzhou — and humanoid robots staff part of the line themselves.
Moonshot AI's new app wraps a command-line coding agent with a built-in terminal, browser, and Git status — available for macOS and Windows.
Kimi K3 is now on Amazon Bedrock in what Chinese outlets call the first revenue-sharing deal between a Chinese model maker and a top-three cloud.
Baidu's Apollo Go passed 20 million fully driverless rides and Wuhan claims per-vehicle break-even — but a mass outage exposed the scale-versus-safety gap.
Huawei admits its next Ascend chips still trail. Then it unveiled the Atlas 960E SuperPoD — 4,096 chips as one machine — betting systems decide the race.
China certified the world's first pilotless passenger eVTOL, flew it 100,000 times, and builds an aircraft every 30 minutes.
Starlink has 7,000 satellites in orbit. China's Qianfan constellation aims for 14,000. Here's why Beijing is betting big on space internet.
With Nvidia's most advanced chips banned, a new generation of Chinese chipmakers — Huawei, Biren, Cambricon — is racing to fill the gap. Here's how close they are.
While OpenAI and Google lock down their models, DeepSeek, Alibaba, and Zhipu AI are going all-in on open source. Here's the strategy behind the shift.
ChangXin Memory Technologies is first to mass-produce LPDDR6, beating Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron. Xiaomi's 18 Fold will be the first phone to carry it.
From DeepSeek to Qwen, Chinese labs are pioneering distillation that produces smaller, cheaper, nearly-as-capable models — and reshaping the AI race.
China's world-model startups raised 66.6 billion yuan in 2026's first seven months — a fivefold surge. Here's why world models are the hottest frontier.
The Qwen family surpassed 3 billion downloads. Here's how a Chinese AI lab built the world's most popular open-source model ecosystem.
From Huawei's Ascend 950 to Alibaba's Zhenwu M890, China's chips are closing the gap — but can they train and run trillion-parameter models?
Alibaba's M890, Huawei's Ascend 384 deployments, and Sugon's 100,000-card cluster mark a shift from chasing capacity to production inference.
Qwen3.8-27B hit 3 million downloads in three days, runs on one consumer GPU, and beats Claude Opus 4.6 Max on key benchmarks.
China is building operating systems where AI is the foundation, not an app. From HarmonyOS to Deepin, here's how they reshape how devices think.
A code-specialized model built on trillion-parameter MoE architecture, cutting reasoning-token consumption by 30%.
OnePlus launched the Turbo 6X series with MediaTek Dimensity chips, 144Hz displays, and batteries up to 8,000mAh in China.
The United States added Alibaba and BYD to its military-related blacklist, tightening restrictions on major Chinese technology and EV companies.
HarmonyOS 7 enters the AI Agent era, with the Xiaoyi assistant hitting 3 billion daily wakes and 1.8 billion daily interactions.
A custom Dimensity 9500 Super Edition co-developed with MediaTek delivers 111% more AI performance and 56% less power for foldables.
Beijing Institute for General Intelligence's DPA4 achieves a world-first ranking, revolutionizing molecular simulation at very low cost.
Unveiled at HDC 2026, HarmonyOS 7 gains performance upgrades and a redesigned Xiaoyi AI assistant as it shifts into the agent era.
Huawei notified partners of a product-wide price increase effective July 1, citing rising semiconductor and AI-system costs.
China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology approved 6G trial frequencies, the first nation to secure 6G spectrum for large-scale testing.
The Exynos 2600 delivers over twice the AI performance of its predecessor in MLPerf, shifting the on-device AI race.
The DPA4 atomic model earned a world-first ranking on international benchmarks, revolutionizing low-cost molecular simulation.
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