China's AI giants scramble for chip self-sufficiency
US curbs push Alibaba, Tencent and Baidu towards Huawei's Ascend
China’s top tech outfits are scrambling to replace their dwindling supply of Nvidia chips with homegrown alternatives as US export controls tighten the screws on AI hardware, the Financial Times reports.
China creates x86 supercomputer monster
AMD lets Hydons be Hygons
China has stirred the silicon pot again, and fused CPU design and server manufacturing into a single beast with ambitions far beyond web hosting.
Ubisoft slices up empire to save its neck
Tencent throws €1.16B lifeline to floundering French publisher
Ubisoft is finally admitting that years of creative flops and corporate misfires have left it in need of a reboot.
Vole eyes further gaming acquisitions
New devices a few years off
Software King of the World Microsoft’s video-gaming Tsar, Phil Spencer, is still exploring acquisitions and strategies to stay competitive in the handheld game devices and mobile stores market despite a challenging year.
China holds the most cyber-security patents
Huawei and Tencent account for six of the top 10
China's presence is growing in cybersecurity technology, with companies such as Huawei and Tencent accounting for six of the top 10 global patent holdings in the sector.
Tencent launches supercomputing cluster
Uses Nvidia's latest generation H800 GPU
Tencent, China’s gaming and social giant, launched a new High-Performance Computing Cluster (HCC) to address the computational bottleneck faced in large-scale model training in China.
Huawei wants to build cars
The US will probably have something to say about that
Huawei is hitting the road to get into the electric car industry – something which the US regulators will probably try to stop in the land of the free.
Tencent rejects Black Shark
You are going to need a bigger boat
Tencent has decided not to buy Xiaomi's premium gaming smartphone brand, Black Shark.
Tencent takes half of Ubisoft
Half your company is now Chinese
Ubisoft has announced that Chinese tech giant Tencent has invested €300 million to buy half the company.
Chinese metaverse will obey rules
No Pooh in perfect socialist Utopia
Chinese social media giant Tencent Holdings expects Beijing to allow 'metaverse' virtual environment services to operate in China - provided they fall in line with Chinese rules.