Previous sanctions unintentionally forced Chinese companies like Huawei to operate more efficiently without access to US chips.

The tech giant suffered an 11% decline in China sales last quarter, raising concerns about its ability to fend off fierce competition in the country.

The developer of the chatbox that shocked U.S. incumbents had access to Nvidia chips that its parent company providentially acquired just before a 2022 U.S. export ban.

No other company has drawn the world’s two most powerful leaders, America’s and China’s presidents, into a direct geopolitical standoff. And yet Huawei, a Chinese tech group, continues to thrive. In 2023 its revenues were around $100bn, nearly twice as much as those of Intel, an iconic Silicon Valley firm.

Huawei is working on gaining a large part of the AI market in China, which is currently led by Nvidia. It offers local companies the ability to use their AI chips for “inference” tasks. To “train” LLMs,

DeepSeek AI is running on Huawei’s Ascend 910C GPU, sparking speculation about China’s AI independence and OpenAI’s allegations of model misuse. Is China closing the gap with the U.S. in AI hardware?

The sudden rise of Chinese AI app DeepSeek has leaders in Washington and Silicon Valley grappling with how to keep the U.S. ahead in the crucial technology.

DeepSeek’s A.I. models show that China is making rapid gains in the field, despite American efforts to hinder it.

When Apple reported its December quarter earnings on Thursday, it revealed that China sales had dropped 11.1% on an annual basis. Cook told analysts that over half of the decline was due to inventory issues.

In 2023, smartphones-to-silicon conglomerate Huawei quietly released its flagship Mate 60 Pro handset. The launch, while muted, was worth celebrating in the People’s Republic: the device featured a made-in-China chip that had previously seemed out of reach amid crippling U.

The United States has pursued an aggressive containment strategy to hobble China’s tech push. Ironically, those restrictions are spurring Chinese innovation, says Enodo Economics’ Diana Choyleva.