China's Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) has approved Apple Intelligence for iPhones after a two-year delay, with Alibaba Group Holding and Baidu serving as technical partners. Alibaba's Qwen …
Alibaba has integrated its Qwen AI model, known as Tongyi Qianwen, into Apple Intelligence for Chinese users, enabling on-device text comprehension, image understanding, and content generation across …
Alibaba's Qwen AI model will be integrated into Apple Intelligence, bringing AI-powered text and image understanding and content generation to users in China across iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and visionOS. T…
The U.S. Commerce Department is preparing new regulatory actions on artificial intelligence and semiconductors, senior official Jeffrey Kessler confirmed Tuesday, saying the Trump administration will …
The US Commerce Department has signaled new regulatory action targeting chips and artificial intelligence, adding uncertainty for semiconductor firms already navigating shifting export controls. The B…
Taiwan's Intellectual Property and Commercial Court sentenced former TSMC engineer Chen Li-ming to 10 years in prison on April 27, 2026, for leaking 2-nanometer chip secrets to Tokyo Electron's Taiwan…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warned that AI users pay a 'double cost' of money and 'unique knowledge,' validating Japan's industrial policy of pursuing domestic AI to control data sovereignty and intel…
Nvidia is halving its list of approved customers across Asia and tightening distributor vetting as US export controls squeeze its China market share, which is projected to collapse from 66% in 2024 to…
Dongfang Suanxin, a Shanghai chip startup founded in 2024 and led by Tsinghua professor Wei Shaojun, emerged from stealth with the DF1000 series, a 14nm AI processor delivering 520 teraflops of BF16 p…
Shanghai-based semiconductor start-up Dongfang Suanxin has unveiled an aggressive road map to challenge Nvidia's dominance in AI chips, centered on its DF1000 processor built on a 14-nanometre process…
Huawei is reportedly building a 12-inch DRAM wafer plant in Shenzhen, China, with a projected capacity of 140,000 wafers per month, in partnership with local memory chipmaker Swaysure and with support…
Apple captured 90% of the edge AI smartwatch market in Q1 2026, according to Counterpoint Research, driven by its S9 chip's on-device AI capabilities for health monitoring. The company's dominance in …
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is developing its own inference chip to reduce reliance on NVIDIA and Huawei, according to Reuters. The move aims to cut API costs and stabilize supply amid export restrict…
Apple accounted for roughly 90% of all Edge AI-capable smartwatch shipments in Q1 2026, as Edge AI penetration reached 25% of the broader smartwatch market, according to Counterpoint Research. The App…
China is allowing select AI companies including Alibaba, ByteDance, and DeepSeek to buy Nvidia's H200 chips after a year-long ban, as a stopgap to ease training bottlenecks while domestic chipmakers l…
NVIDIA and Microsoft are jointly developing the DGX Station for Windows, a system designed to run hundreds of AI agents securely within enterprise Windows environments, targeting Japan's industrial se…
Meta released Muse Spark 1.1, a multimodal reasoning model for agentic work, alongside the public preview of the Meta Model API. INT21 tested the model in a Swarm research system with 29 agents proces…
China will allow Alibaba, ByteDance, and DeepSeek to purchase Nvidia's H200 chips for AI model training, but total approvals are capped at fewer than 200,000 units, less than half of what the companie…
China has approved purchases of Nvidia's H200 chips for ten major AI firms including Alibaba, Tencent, ByteDance, and JD.com, with each company allowed up to 75,000 chips. However, as of mid-May 2026,…
Chinese President Xi Jinping has prioritized artificial intelligence and semiconductor development as part of China's 15th Five-Year Plan, aiming to build domestic alternatives to US chips. The plan, …