China Starts Mass-Producing Homegrown DUV Chipmaking Tools
A Chinese state-backed firm has begun mass-producing homegrown immersion DUV lithography machines for its chipmakers, briefly rattling global semiconductor-equipment stocks.
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Huawei is a Chinese technology giant spanning telecom infrastructure, smartphones, and semiconductors, and a central player in China’s push for AI self-sufficiency. Through its HiSilicon chip design arm it builds Ascend AI processors and Kirin mobile chips, developed largely in response to US export controls that cut off access to advanced foreign chipmaking. This hub gathers news and explainers on Huawei’s AI hardware, cloud services, and role in the wider US-China tech rivalry.
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Huawei is a Chinese tech giant now racing to build its own AI chips and cloud infrastructure after US export controls cut off its access to Nvidia's GPUs.
Read more →Huawei Cloud Launches Agentic AI Infrastructure in Thailand
Huawei Cloud unveiled a new agentic AI infrastructure stack and opened a beta of its CodeArts coding agent in Thailand, expanding its enterprise AI push in Southeast Asia.
Read more →China's GLM-5.2 Rivals US Frontier AI at One-Sixth the Cost
Z.ai has released GLM-5.2, a 744-billion-parameter open-weight model that matches GPT-5.5 on key benchmarks and trails Claude Opus 4.8 narrowly — trained entirely on Huawei silicon with no Nvidia hardware.
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