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China bans research company that helped unearth Huawei's use of TSMC tech despite U.S. bans
By Jowi Morales published
Did TechInsights get banned for looking too deeply into Huawei?

DeepSeek’s new AI model debuts with support for China-native chips and CANN, a replacement for Nvidia's CUDA
By Luke James published
Chinese AI firm DeepSeek has released its latest large language model, DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp, with first-day optimizations for Huawei’s Ascend hardware and CANN software stack.

Huawei unveils Atlas 950 SuperCluster
By Anton Shilov published
Huawei has outlined its roadmap for Zettascale AI systems that will rely on hundreds of thousands and then millions of AI accelerators.

Huawei reveals long-range Ascend chip roadmap
By Luke James published
Speaking at the Huawei Connect conference on September 18, rotating chairman Xu Zhijun outlined the company’s first official long-range Ascend chip strategy.

China's largest chipmaker testing first homegrown immersion DUV litho tool
By Anton Shilov published
28nm today, 7nm tomorrow?

China's chip champions ramp up production of AI accelerators at domestic fabs, but HBM and fab production capacity are towering bottlenecks
By Anton Shilov published
Millions of China-made AI accelerators are incoming from multiple companies in 2025 - 2026, but they may not be enough to meet the performance demands of local AI companies.

Huawei to open-source its UB-Mesh data center-scale interconnect soon, details technical aspects
By Anton Shilov published
Huawei unveiled UB-Mesh at Hot Chips 2025 as an open protocol to unify AI datacenter interconnects, enabling million-processor SuperNodes with lower latency, cost, and higher reliability.

Huawei's Kirin 9020 integrates 5G modem, China-made 5G FEM
By Anton Shilov published
Despite U.S. sanctions, Huawei's Kirin 9020 is built by SMIC on a 7nm-class process and integrates a fully in-house 5G modem supported by a domestic FEM.

Fragmented ecosystems and limited supply: Why China cannot break free from Nvidia hardware for AI
By Anton Shilov published
News Analysis China's push for AI hardware self-reliance hits the roadblock despite U.S. government's restructions due to fragmented hardware and software ecosystems.

DeepSeek reportedly urged by Chinese authorities to train new model on Huawei hardware, met with multiple failures
By Anton Shilov published
DeepSeek’s bid to train R2 on Huawei’s Ascend chips failed due to technical limits, forcing a return to Nvidia GPUs and delaying the launch.
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