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RoboSense, China’s largest lidar manufacturer by market share, is building its first overseas production facility in Southeast Asia, according to a report published by Nikkei Asia.
China’s Ministry of Commerce issued a formal warning on April 25, 2026, telling Washington that a set of semiconductor export control bills advancing through the US House of Representatives would “misuse export controls” and “undermine the international economic order.”
Two days after its initial preview, DeepSeek has completed the full open-source release of its V4 model family, publishing weights for both the V4 Pro and V4 Flash variants under the permissive MIT license.
DeepSeek has officially released its highly anticipated next-generation artificial intelligence models, DeepSeek-V4-Pro and DeepSeek-V4-Flash, marking a pivotal moment in China’s push for AI self-sufficiency.
Huawei has officially entered the increasingly competitive smart eyewear market with the launch of its new “Huawei AI Glasses,” priced at 2,499 yuan (approximately $345 ). As reported by TrendForce, the device is powered by a self-developed AI chip and features advanced multimodal capabilities.
The 2026 Beijing Auto Show has highlighted a decisive strategic shift among Chinese electric vehicle manufacturers: the aggressive move toward developing in-house AI chips.
China’s true artificial intelligence computing capacity has long been obscured by a combination of geopolitical caution and differing measurement standards. However, a recent disclosure from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT ) has provided a rare glimpse into the scale of the country’s “dark” compute power.
The Unintended Consequences of Export Controls Four years after the United States implemented sweeping export controls designed to cripple China’s access to advanced semiconductors, the technological landscape is shifting in unexpected ways.
A Bipartisan Push for Tighter Export Controls The legislative machinery in Washington is accelerating its efforts to curb China’s access to critical artificial intelligence and semiconductor technologies. Inside AI Policy reports that the House Foreign Affairs Committee convenes on April 22, 2022, to mark up a sweeping package of 23 bills.
Exploiting the DUVi Loophole for Advanced Manufacturing The architecture of the United States export controls, designed to stifle China’s advancement in artificial intelligence and semiconductor manufacturing, is facing a critical vulnerability.
Securing Capital for the AI Infrastructure Race The insatiable demand for artificial intelligence computing power continues to drive massive capital raises across the Chinese technology sector. Bamboo Works reports that Phancy Group Co. Ltd., formerly known as Fourth Paradigm, has announced a significant move to bolster its infrastructure capabilities.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang delivered an unusually sharp public critique of US chip export controls in a recent appearance on the Dwarkesh Patel podcast, calling the rationale behind the policy “extremely stupid” and describing the mindset that supports it as a “loser’s mentality.”
China sent more than 700 companies to Hannover Messe 2026, the world’s largest industrial trade fair, which opened in Hannover, Germany on April 22, according to Xinhua’s reporting on the opening.
Sunrise, a Chinese AI chip startup focused entirely on inference GPU development, has completed a new financing round exceeding 1 billion yuan (approximately $140 million US dollars), according to Caixin Global and 36kr.
Victory Giant Technology, a Chinese manufacturer of printed circuit boards used in AI servers and data center hardware, surged approximately 57 percent on its first day of trading on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on April 21, 2026.
The Hardware Behind the AI Boom While the development of advanced large language models captures the public imagination, the physical reality of the artificial intelligence revolution is built on heavy industrial hardware.
A Historic Shift in Market Leadership In a symbolic changing of the guard that underscores China’s structural economic transformation, a high-tech semiconductor firm has dethroned a traditional consumer blue chip to become the most expensive stock on the domestic market. China Daily reports that on Friday, shares of Yuanjie Semiconductor Technology Co. Ltd.
As the global race to build massive artificial intelligence computing clusters accelerates, the industry is colliding with a fundamental physical limit: heat. The latest generation of AI accelerators generates unprecedented thermal loads, making cooling a significant bottleneck in data center scaling.
Despite intense geopolitical pressure and sweeping US export controls, China has quietly cemented its position as the indispensable manufacturing hub for the global artificial intelligence boom.
In a sharp departure from the diplomatic tightrope usually walked by tech executives, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has publicly criticized the United States’ strategy of restricting AI chip exports to China.
