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☆ China's ByteDance is reportedly working with Broadcom to develop advanced AI chip
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-24 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

BEIJING — China's ByteDance is working with U.S. chip designer Broadcom on developing an advanced AI processor, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters, a move that would help TikTok's owner secure sufficient supply of high-end chips amid U.S.-Sino tensions. Securing AI chips is crucial for ByteDance to make its algorithms more powerful. To support its AI push, ByteDance has stockpiled Nvidia chips, according to a separate person who was briefed on the matter. Bytedance currently has hundreds of semiconductor-related job openings posted, including 15 for ASIC chip designers, according to checks of its website. It has also been poaching top people from other Chinese AI chip firms, according to one of the sources who has direct knowledge of this issue.

Persons: TSMC, ByteDance, Bailly, Bytedance Organizations: BEIJING, U.S, Broadcom, Reuters, ByteDance, supercomputing, China's, Competition, Huawei HWT.UL, Nvidia Locations: Washington, U.S, China, ByteDance

New networks by Dish (DISH.O) and Japan's Rakuten (4755.T) use Open RAN. "All of the new equipment that we are going to be putting out will be Open RAN capable," Chris Sambar, president of AT&T Network, told Reuters. Winning the Open RAN deal will make Ericsson the largest supplier to AT&T as it slowly takes over Nokia's share, the company said. AT&T will still have contracts which other Open RAN vendors outside this deal. AT&T expects fully integrated Open RAN sites operating in coordination with Ericsson and Fujitsu (6702.T), starting in 2024.

Persons: Brendan McDermid, Japan's Rakuten, Chris Sambar, Sambar, You've, Supantha Mukherjee, Matthew Lewis Organizations: New York Stock Exchange, REUTERS, Rights, Ericsson, Nokia, Huawei, Telefonica, Vodafone, RAN, AT, T Network, Reuters, Samsung, Verizon, U.S ., Fujitsu, Thomson Locations: New York, U.S, ORAN, United States, Stockholm

Main auto partner Chongqing Changan Automobile (000625.SZ) and relevant parties will own up to 40% of the new firm, a Changan Auto statement showed on Sunday. Neither Changan Auto nor Huawei disclosed financial details. Changan Auto referred Reuters to its Sunday statement and declined to comment further. Huawei has partnerships with other auto companies, including Seres Group (601127.SS) and Jianghuai Automobile (600418.SS), as well as with Changan Auto involving EV brands Avatr and Deepal. The proposed deal will also smooth the way for the business' listing, as Huawei had planned, said two of the people.

Persons: Ren Zhengfei, Ren, Richard Yu, Julie Zhu, Zhuzhu Cui, David Kirton, Brenda Goh, Christopher Cushing Organizations: Huawei Technologies, Changan Auto, Bosch, Chongqing Changan Automobile, Huawei, Auto, China Ordnance Equipment Group, China South Industries, FAW Group, Dongfeng Motor, HK, Reuters, Seres, Jianghuai, Changan, EV, Thomson Locations: HONG KONG, SHANGHAI, Chongqing, China, Changan, Shanghai

☆ GM to cut spending on Cruise after accident - FT
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-28 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

Technology category · November 28, 2023 · 8:23 AM UTCHuawei Technologies (HWT.UL) said some of its automotive partnerships, having gained skills in user experience, product design and marketing, were now ready to move towards independent operations and investment.

Organizations: Huawei Technologies

☆ Alibaba Cloud suffers second service outage in a month
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-28 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

3D printed clouds and figurines are seen in front of the Alibaba Cloud service logo in this illustration taken February 8, 2022. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsBEIJING, Nov 28 (Reuters) - Alibaba's (9988.HK) cloud service said it suffered a near two-hour long disruption affecting customers in mainland China, Hong Kong and the United States on Monday, its second outage within a month. The impact was mainly felt by several of Alibaba Cloud's database management products, including PostgreSQL, Redis and MySQL editions. "From 09:16 Beijing time (0116 GMT) on November 27, 2023, Alibaba Cloud monitoring detected abnormalities in console and OpenAPI access for database products," Alibaba Cloud said in a statement posted on its websites on Tuesday. "This is hugely damaging to Alibaba Cloud's brand image as a reliable cloud service provider."

Persons: Dado, Alibaba, Feng Ruohang, Yelin Mo, Brenda Goh, Simon Cameron, Moore Organizations: REUTERS, Rights, Huawei, China Telecom, HK, IDC, Thomson Locations: Rights BEIJING, HK, China, Hong Kong, United States, Beijing, Shanghai, Virginia, U.S, East Asia, Southeast Asia, East, North America

☆ Huawei to move smart car operations to new joint company with Changan
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-26 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

BEIJING, Nov 26 (Reuters) - China's Huawei (HWT.UL) said on Sunday it will move core technologies and resources in its smart car unit, which has chalked up robust sales for a number of new vehicles, to a new joint company owned up to 40% by automaker Changan Auto. The new company will engage in research and development, production, sales and service of intelligent automotive systems and component solutions, Huawei said in a press release. "The new company will ... work with partners to promote innovation and leadership in smart car technology and promote the prosperity and development of the automotive industry," the release said. "The two parties will jointly support the target company to become an industry leader in automotive intelligent systems and component solutions based in China," the filing said. Huawei has repeatedly said it does not make cars on its own but only helps other automakers make better vehicles.

Persons: Yu Chengdong, Changan, Laurie Chen, Brenda Goh, Edmund Klamann Organizations: Huawei, Changan Auto, Chongqing Changan Automobile, Shenzhen Stock Exchange, Seres, Chery, Thomson Locations: BEIJING, Chongqing, China, Shenzhen, Beijing, Shanghai

☆ China's Realme hits 200 million shipment milestone, to launch premium phones
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-26 | by ( Josh Ye | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

A man looks at his mobile phone next to a logo of Realme during its X50 5G product launch event in Beijing, China January 7, 2020. Realme, owned by Chinese consumer hardware giant BBK Electronics which also owns the Oppo and Vivo brands, said it had reached the 200 million mark in the second quarter. In total, just 14 companies globally which have shipped over 200 million phones to date. "We came into existence when there were over 700 smartphone brands in the world," said Xu Qi, Realme's chief marketing officer. Xiaomi (1810.HK) has recently released the Xiaomi 14 Pro which also runs on the new Snapdragon 8 Gen 3.

Persons: Jason Lee, Realme, Xu Qi, Xu, Josh Ye, Miral Organizations: REUTERS, Research, Huawei, Samsung, Apple, Counterpoint Research, HK, Thomson Locations: Beijing, China, HONG KONG

The California-based AI chip giant had been expected to launch the new products as early as Nov. 16, chip industry newsletter SemiAnalysis reported this month. However, the H20 launch has now been pushed back until the first quarter of next year, the sources said, with one saying they were advised it could take place in February or March. In addition to the H20, Nvidia has been planning two other chips to comply with new U.S. export rules - the L20 and L2. The sources said the L20 was not facing delays and would launch according to its original schedule. Chinese internet giant Baidu (9888.HK) placed a sizeable order for Huawei AI chips this year, Reuters reported this month citing sources.

Persons: Dado Ruvic, Baidu, Fanny Potkin, Yelin, Brenda Goh, Jamie Freed Organizations: NVIDIA, REUTERS, Rights, Nvidia, Huawei, U.S, Baidu, HK, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Rights SINGAPORE, BEIJING, China, The California, U.S, Singapore, Yelin Mo, Beijing, Shanghai

REUTERS/Mike Segar/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsBEIJING, Nov 23 (Reuters) - Apple (AAPL.O) saw a decline in the number of smartphones sold during China's recent Singles Day shopping festival, data from Counterpoint Research showed, lagging domestic rivals Huawei and Xiaomi which recorded robust increases. The number of Apple smartphones sold declined 4% year-on-year during the two-week sales from Oct. 30 to Nov. 12, the research consultancy said on Thursday. In comparison, the number of units sold by Huawei (HWT.UL) and Xiaomi (1810.HK) grew 66% and 28% respectively year-on-year over the same period. The increases for Huawei and Xiaomi helped fuel a 5% year-over-year rise in the overall number of Chinese smartphones sold during the promotion period, it said. ($1 = 7.2111 Chinese yuan renminbi)Reporting by Yelin Mo and Brenda Goh; editing by Miral FahmyOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Mike Segar, China's, JD.com, Xiaomi, Lei Jun, Ivan Lam, Yelin Mo, Brenda Goh, Miral Organizations: Apple Inc, Apple, REUTERS, Rights, Counterpoint Research, Huawei, HK, IDC, Thomson Locations: Manhattan , New York, U.S, Rights BEIJING, China, United States

A smartphone with a displayed NVIDIA logo is placed on a computer motherboard in this illustration taken March 6, 2023. But the red-hot market for AI chips is playing out in the context of vastly expanded U.S. export controls on what Nvidia can sell to China. Jacob Bourne, analyst at Insider Intelligence, said that those China-focused chips could consume vital research resources at Nvidia for products that could end up banned just like its first round of China market chips. Rival Advanced Micro Devices (AMD.O) had earlier touted the quantity of high-bandwidth memory on one of its competing AI chips. Chinese tech company Huawei's (HWT.UL) AI chip is also gaining traction from local firms as U.S. pressure makes it hard to access Nvidia chips.

Persons: Dado Ruvic, Nvidia, Jesse Cohen, Colette Kress, Jacob Bourne, Bourne, Chavi Mehta, Max A, Stephen Nellis, Arun Koyyur, Sayantani Ghosh, Matthew Lewis Organizations: NVIDIA, REUTERS, Wall, Nvidia, LSEG, Insider Intelligence, Devices, Google, Microsoft, San, Thomson Locations: China, Israel, Gaza, United States, Bengaluru, Max, San Francisco

☆ Tencent to seek domestic AI training chip supplies after latest US curbs
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-15 | by ( Josh Ye | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

"We will have to figure out ways to make the usage of our AI chips more efficient," he said, "And we will also try to look for domestic source for these training chips." Lau's comments come as Chinese companies with AI ambitions are scrambling to cope with the United States' ever-expanding AI chip export restrictions to China. But now a growing number of Chinese tech firms are turning to homegrown chipmakers like Huawei Technologies [RIC:RIC:HWT.UL] for AI chip supply. As such, the new chip curbs will not affect the development of Tencent's AI capability in the near term. The Nvidia H800 chips were AI chips Nvidia developed specifically for China late last year in response to an earlier US curb on AI chips to China.

Persons: Aly, Martin Lau, Baidu, Lau, Tencent, We'll, Josh Ye, Toby Chopra, Jane Merriman Organizations: Artificial Intelligence, REUTERS, Tencent Holdings, HK, Nvidia, Huawei Technologies, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Shanghai, China, HONG KONG, United States

☆ Tencent says has Nvidia AI chip stockpile but seeking to buy domestic
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-15 | by ( Josh Ye | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Tencent has enough Nvidia chips to continue development of its "Hunyuan" AI model "for at least a couple more generations", so the curbs will not affect near-term AI capability, Lau said. "We will have to figure out ways to make the usage of our AI chips more efficient," he said. "And we will also try to look for domestic sources for these training chips." "We feel that the chip ban does actually affect our ability to resell (use of) these AI chips through our cloud services," he said. Nvidia plans to market new China-bound AI chips, with an announcement on Nov. 16 at the earliest, industry newsletter SemiAnalysis reported last week.

Persons: Aly, Martin Lau, Lau, We'll, SemiAnalysis, Josh Ye, Jane Merriman, Christopher Cushing Organizations: Artificial Intelligence, REUTERS, Tencent Holdings, HK, Nvidia, Huawei Technologies, Reuters, Baidu, Huawei, Thomson Locations: Shanghai, China, HONG KONG, U.S

BEIJING, Nov 14 (Reuters) - Strong sales growth at Huawei (HWT.UL) helped power an 11% rise in China's total smartphone shipments in October, data from research firm Counterpoint showed on Tuesday, indicating signs of recovery in its lagging mobile market. Huawei was a major contributor to the average year-on-year growth in the first four weeks of October, with its sales surging 83%, a note from the firm showed. According to the Counterpoint data, Xiaomi (1810.HK) also saw a 33% increase in smartphone sales in October. China's smartphone market has seen sales fall over several quarters, with a 3% drop in the quarter ending June, according to Counterpoint. Analysts expect the market may be poised for a rebound, with research firm IDC predicting unspecified year-on-year sales growth in the fourth quarter after ten consecutive quarters of falling shipments.

Persons: Archie Zhang, we’re, ”, Ivan Lam, Yelin Mo, Brenda Goh, Jan Harvey Organizations: Huawei, HK, IDC, Thomson Locations: BEIJING, China

People check new products of Xiaomi ahead of the 2023 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain February 26, 2023. Demand in the world's biggest smartphone market has long been in decline, with the COVID-19 pandemic and then a faltering economic recovery persuading customers to wait longer before upgrading their phones. IDC predicts the Chinese market is on track to achieve year-on-year sales growth in the fourth quarter after ten consecutive quarters of decline. U.S. chip designer Qualcomm also said last week that it is seeing strong demand from smartphone companies, especially in China. The Mi 14 series, priced between 3,999 yuan and 6,499 yuan ($550-$890), represents an attempt by Xiaomi to make deeper inroads into the premium smartphone market and compete with Apple (AAPL.O) and Huawei.

Persons: Nacho, Lei Jun, Will Wong, Qualcomm, Xiaomi, Yelin Mo, Brenda Goh, Edwina Gibbs Organizations: REUTERS, Rights, HK, Weibo, IDC, Huawei, Apple, Thomson Locations: Barcelona, Spain, Rights BEIJING, China, U.S

☆ Nvidia plans to release three new chips for China - local media
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-09 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

A smartphone with a displayed NVIDIA logo is placed on a computer motherboard in this illustration taken March 6, 2023. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsSHANGHAI, Nov 9 (Reuters) - Nvidia (NVDA.O) is planning to release three new chips for China, local media reported on Thursday, weeks after the U.S. blocked it from selling two high-end artificial intelligence (AI) chips and one of its top gaming chips to Chinese firms. One of the company's top-of-the-line gaming chips, the L40S chip, which it announced in August, would also be affected, it said. On Oct. 24, Nvidia said those curbs would take immediate effect, as U.S. regulators had sped up an original deadline. Chinese internet giant Baidu (9888.HK) placed a sizeable order for Huawei AI chips this year, sources have said.

Persons: Dado Ruvic, Baidu, Brenda Goh, Christopher Cushing, Edwina Gibbs Organizations: NVIDIA, REUTERS, Rights, Nvidia, STAR Market, Huawei Technologies, Baidu, HK, Huawei, Thomson Locations: China, U.S, Washington

☆ Exclusive: Baidu placed AI chip order from Huawei in shift away from Nvidia -sources
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-07 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

Baidu ordered 1,600 of Huawei Technologies' 910B Ascend AI chips - which the Chinese firm developed as an alternative to Nvidia's A100 chip - for 200 servers, the source said, adding that by October, Huawei had delivered more 60% of the order, or about 1,000 chips, to Baidu. Baidu, alongside Chinese peers such as Tencent (0700.HK) and Alibaba (9988.HK), is known to be a long-time client of Nvidia. Baidu was not previously known to be a AI chip customer of Huawei. Huawei's website says it has since 2020 collaborated with Baidu to make its AI platform compatible with Huawei hardware. Baidu has developed its own line of Kunlun AI chips, which the company says supports large-scale AI computing, but the company has mainly relied on Nvidia's A100 chip to train its LLM.

Persons: Aly, Baidu, Ernie, Yelin Mo, Zhang Yan, Brenda Goh, Josh Ye, Gerry Doyle Organizations: Baidu, Artificial Intelligence, REUTERS, Rights, HK, Huawei, U.S ., Nvidia, Huawei Technologies, U.S, HUAWEI, Reuters, Thomson Locations: Shanghai, China, Rights BEIJING, SHANGHAI, U.S, Beijing, Hong Kong

☆ Australia's Albanese retraces historic Beijing walk on visit to mend ties
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-06 | by ( Ryan Woo | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese speaks during the bilateral meeting with Indonesia's President Joko Widodo on the sidelines of the 43rd Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit in Jakarta, Indonesia, 07 September 2023. Albanese, who arrived on Saturday, was due to meet President Xi Jinping later on Monday, their second face-to-face talks in a year. At the Temple of Heaven, Albanese posed for a photograph at the circular Echo Wall, the same spot where Australia's then prime minister, Gough Whitlam, stood in 1973, a year after the two countries established ties. China and Australia for decades built a relationship on trade, with China becoming Australia's biggest trading partner with its purchases of Australian food and natural resources. 'PROMISING SIGNS'But Albanese took steps to stabilise relations after he became prime minister in May last year and met Xi on the sidelines of a G20 summit in Indonesia in November.

Persons: Anthony Albanese, Joko Widodo, BAGUS, Albanese, Xi Jinping, Australia's, Gough Whitlam, " Albanese, Xi, We've, Ryan Woo, Robert Birsel Organizations: Australia's, 43rd Association of Southeast Asian Nations, ASEAN, Rights, Australian, Beijing's, Twitter, Huawei Technologies, South China, Thomson Locations: Jakarta, Indonesia, Rights BEIJING, China, Beijing, Australia, Australian, Wuhan, Pacific, United States, Britain, South, Japan, South Korea

A woman looks at a new iPhone 15 Pro and a Huawei Mate 60 Pro as Apple's new iPhone 15 officially goes on sale across China, at an Apple store in Shanghai, China September 22, 2023. Research firm Canalys estimated that overall smartphone sales in China fell 3% in July-September from a year earlier as consumers bought fewer smartphones as an economic recovery was choppy. On the other hand, analysts estimate that Huawei's China smartphone sales grew strongly in the quarter. Apple said on Thursday that its overall sales in China dipped 2.5% but it blamed tough Mac computer and iPad sales for that. Aggressive discounting on the iPhone 15 series in the run up to the annual Singles Day shopping festival by major Chinese online retailers is also encouraging demand.

Persons: Aly, Tim Cook, Apple, Cook, Canalys, Apple's, Huawei's, Yuvraj Malik, Bengaluru ， Stephen Nellis, Yelin, Arsheeya Bajwa, Harshita Varghese, Sayantani Ghosh, Gerry Doyle Organizations: Huawei, Apple, REUTERS, Huawei Technologies, Reuters, Research, HK, Taobao, Pro Max, Qualcomm, Thomson Locations: China, Shanghai, Bengaluru ，, San Francisco, Yelin Mo, Beijing, Bengaluru

Apple shares, which have risen 37% so far this year, dropped 3.4% after-hours, following the forecast. Maestri said Apple expects to have higher iPhone sales for the fiscal first quarter, even though this year's holiday quarter has one fewer week of sales than the year-ago. Cook said the company's new high-end handset models - the iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max devices - are facing supply constraints. Apple's sales in China fell to $15.08 billion from $15.47 billion in the fourth quarter a year ago. Cook said that after accounting for foreign-exchange rates, Apple's business in China grew year-over-year, driven by iPhone sales and services revenue.

Persons: Tim Cook, Apple, Cook, Luca Maestri, Bob O'Donnell, Davidson, Tom Forte, Aly, Max, Nabila Popal, Lionel Messi, Stephen Nellis, Yuvraj Malik, Sayantani Ghosh, Peter Henderson, Matthew Lewis, Leslie Adler Organizations: Huawei, Apple, TECHnalysis Research, Mac, REUTERS, Huawei Technologies, U.S, Reuters, Pro, Apple Watch, Thomson Locations: China, Cupertino , California, Shanghai, San Francisco, Bengaluru

Chipmakers have been grappling with a smartphone market slump. Last week, Qualcomm rival MediaTek (2454.TW) said it saw sales growth in its smartphone chip business. Qorvo (QRVO.O), another important smartphone chip supplier, on Wednesday projected revenue growth for fiscal 2024, sending its shares up slightly. In Qualcomm's intellectual property licensing business, sales of $1.26 billion were in line with estimates of $1.25 billion according to FactSet data. In its chip business, Qualcomm said fourth-quarter revenue from smartphone handsets was $5.46 billion, beating analysts' expectations of $5.34 billion according to FactSet data.

Persons: Dado Ruvic, Qualcomm, MediaTek, FactSet, Chavi Mehta, Stephen Nellis, Richard Chang Organizations: Qualcomm, REUTERS, Wall, Apple, LSEG, Huawei Technologies, U.S ., Samsung Electronics, IDC, Microsoft, Thomson Locations: San Diego , California, Bengaluru, San Francisco

☆ China's semiconductor state fund invests $2 billion in memory chip firm
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-31 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

REUTERS/Florence Lo/Illustration//File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsBEIJING, Oct 31 (Reuters) - China's state-backed chip investment fund has invested 14.56 billion yuan ($1.99 billion) in a memory chip company called Changxin Xinqiao, records showed. According to company registration website Qichacha, Changxin Xinqiao was founded in 2021 in Hefei city, in the eastern Anhui province. Its general manager is Zhao Lun, who is the general manager of ChangXin Memory Technologies, one of China's leading memory chip companies. Changxin Xinqiao and the Big Fund did not immediately respond to Reuters' requests for comment. The organization raised 138.7 billion yuan for its first fund, and 204 billion yuan for its second fund.

Persons: Florence Lo, Changxin Xinqiao, Zhao Lun, YMTC, Changxin, Yelin Mo, Roxanne Liu, Brenda Goh, Simon Cameron, Moore Organizations: REUTERS, Rights, China Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund, National Enterprise, Technologies, Big Fund, Memory Technologies, Huawei Technologies Co, Big, Reuters, Thomson Locations: China, Rights BEIJING, Changxin, Hefei city, Anhui, United States, Changxin Xinan, Hefei Xinyi, Taiwan, South Korea, Beijing, Shanghai

☆ China's Huawei reports modest revenue growth for first three quarters
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-27 | by ( David Kirton | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Huawei posted revenues of 456.6 billion yuan ($62.4 billion)for the first three quarters of the year, up 2.4% from a year earlier. In contrast to the modest rise in revenue, profit rose 177.8% in the period to 73.05 billion yuan, according to Reuters calculations. For the third quarter, revenue rose 1.5% to 145.7 billion yuan, according to Reuters calculations. Counterpoint said Huawei ranked as the sixth-largest smartphone brand in China during the quarter with a share of 12.9%, up from 9.1% from the same period a year ago. However, the Huawei spokesperson attributed the third-quarter revenue growth to increases in the digital power, cloud and auto parts businesses, while the Mate 60 series was released relatively late in the quarter.

Persons: Ken Hu, Richard Yu, Huawei's, David Kirton, Christian Schmollinger, Simon Cameron, Moore Organizations: Huawei Technologies, Huawei, Research, U.S, Huawei's Smart, Thomson Locations: SHENZHEN, China

NEW YORK, Oct 26 (Reuters) - The founder of the world's biggest chipmaker, Morris Chang, said on Thursday that increasing tensions over technology between the United States and China will slow down the global chip industry. The company has helped the democratically governed island of Taiwan become the world's leading producer of advanced chips. Chang, 92, said that cutting off China's chip industry from the rest of the world would affect other players beyond China. Of course, the immediate purpose is to slow China down, and I think it's doing that," Chang said. Born and raised in China, Chang built a career in the U.S., where he become a naturalized citizen in 1962, before being recruited to build the chip industry in Taiwan.

Persons: Morris Chang, Chang, Krystal Hu, Stephen Nellis, Sandra Maler Organizations: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, Asia Society, Huawei Technologies, U.S, Thomson Locations: United States, China, New York, Taiwan, U.S, Arizona, San Francisco

☆ Shares in China's iFlyTek tumble after reports AI-powered device criticised Mao
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-24 | by ( Josh Ye | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

An iFlytek company sign is seen at the Appliance and Electronics World Expo (AWE) in Shanghai, China March 23, 2021. It has proposed the compilation of a blacklist of sources that cannot be used to train Chinese AI models. IFlyTek on Tuesday revealed its latest Spark AI model which the company says can rival OpenAI’s ChatGPT in most key areas. Liu said iFlytek’s model could compete with OpenAI’s GPT-4 early next year. The company also said that it is working with Huawei Technologies (HWT.UL) on an AI model training platform which uses Huawei’s flagship AI chips.

Persons: Aly, Mao Zedong, Baijiahao, Mao, iFlyTek, Liu Qingfeng, OpenAI’s, Liu, Josh Ye, Brenda Goh, Sharon Singleton Organizations: Appliance, Electronics, REUTERS, Reuters, Communist Party, Huawei Technologies, Thomson Locations: Shanghai, China, HONG KONG, iFlytek

☆ Analysis: US chip curbs give Huawei a chance to fill the Nvidia void in China
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-20 | by ( Josh Ye | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

Huawei's Ascend AI chips are comparable to Nvidia's in terms of raw computing power, analysts and some AI firms such as China's iFlyTek (002230.SZ) say, but they still lag behind in performance. "This U.S. move, in my opinion, is actually giving Huawei's Ascend chips a huge gift," Jiang said in a post on his social media Weibo account. Huawei and Nvidia did not immediately respond to Reuters' requests for comment. Huawei's partners in China so far include iFlyTek, a leading Chinese AI software company which is using the Ascend 910 to train its AI models. Other partners include state-owned software firms Tsinghua Tongfang and Digital China.

Persons: Benoit Tessier, Jiang Yifan, Jiang, CANN, Woz Ahmed, Ahmed, Meng Wanzhou, IFlyTek, Jiang Tao, Charlie Chai, 86Research, Xi Jinping, Chai, Josh Ye, Brenda Goh Organizations: Huawei Technologies, Viva Technology, Porte de, REUTERS, Nvidia, Huawei, Securities, Tsinghua, Digital, Thomson Locations: Porte, Paris, France, HONG KONG, China, United States, U.S, Digital China

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