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Tencent Cloud president Qiu Yuepeng said the company had “fully adapted to mainstream domestic chips” within its AI computing infrastructure In sum – what to know: Tencent backs domestic AI chips – The company has fully integrated Chinese processors into …

Nvidia noted last week that it expects to receive new licenses from the U.S. government to resume sales of the H20 chip in China In sum – what to know: Nvidia limits H20 chip supply – Nvidia has informed Chinese …

Asia’s digital infrastructure is evolving fast, with major moves in clean energy, cloud expansion and AI readiness. Google is pioneering geothermal baseload power in Taiwan to support its regional data centers. Tencent Cloud is scaling up in Japan to meet …

As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to reshape industries worldwide, there is no doubt that China has emerged as a global leader in terms of AI infrastructure. A key aspect of this leadership is the development of state-of-the-art data centers that …

China Mobile-Tencent JV had been initially approved by China’s market regulator in November 2022 Chinese internet company Tencent Holdings and China Unicom have officially formed a joint venture with a registered capital of CNY300 million ($43.4 million), Chinese press reported. …

Alibaba’s cloud business revenue rose 20% year over year for its first fiscal quarter, but dropped 66% sequentially.

Chinese mobile operators China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom are expected to roll out a nationwide 5G messaging service by the end of October, according to local press reports. The combined effort aims to challenge China’s leading app, WeChat, …

A combination of a last-minute deal and a court injunction mean that bans on downloads and updates for Chinese-owned TikTok and WeChat have been averted, and the applications are still available to users in the U.S. — at least for …

The Hong Kong based port and shipping conglomerate China Merchants Port (CMP) Group has said its 5G-enabled port transformation project with Huawei, Alibaba and Tencent at the Haixing (Mawan) port at the mouth of the Pearl River in Shenzhen, in …

More than 46,000 base stations supply 5G in Shenzhen The municipal government of China’s Shenzhen announced that the city’s  5G deployment is fully completed. This makes it the first city in China to to achieve full-scale 5G deployment. The city …

  U.S. company Semtech said that several of its customers, including CIAAIoT, EasyLinkin, IOCA, RisingHF, and Winext Technology, have integrated Semtech’s LoRa devices and the LoRaWAN protocol with cloud-based platforms developed by Chinese companies Alibaba Cloud and Tencent Cloud, to …

Chinese 5G cloud gaming is particularly tied to the mobile industry As part of the ongoing race towards 5G, China’s three state-owned wireless carriers – China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom – debuted 5G mobile services last week in what is …

Cloud gaming remains hindered by its dependence on reliable, fast connectivity Last week, Qualcomm Wireless Communications Technologies (China) Limited, a subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated, announced its cooperation with Tencent Games, China’s largest gaming company, to develop high-quality games that can …

A group of China’s largest tech companies have formed an association with the aim of accelerating initiatives to foster the industrial internet in the country, Chinese paper China South Morning Post reported. These firms, including Huawei Technologies and internet giant …

Chinese internet giant Tencent and Siradel, which provides advanced wireless network design and smart city planning tools, have partnered on the design of a LoRa network in key areas of Shenzhen City, in China. As part of the network design, …

Early-stage funds accounted for 77 per cent of the total deal volume and 26.4 per cent of the total deal value during the first quarter, with strong continuing interest in both IoT and AI, and several major deals topping £100 …

The Linux Foundation has started a new umbrella organisation, LF Edge, to establish an open, interoperable framework for edge computing that is independent of hardware, silicon, cloud, or operating system. The launch “changes the IoT and edge computing landscape,” it …

Chinese internet of things (IoT) company G7 Networks has completed a $320 million funding round, with investments from Total Energy Ventures (TEV) International, Tencent, and GLP, among others. The value of the fund-raising round set a new record in the …

Tencent calls LoRaWAN an ‘essential’ IoT technology The LoRa Alliance welcomed internet valued-added services provider Tencent Holdings into its association today, receiving further backing for its LoRaWAN standard. This announcement follows Tencent’s significant investment in technology and applications for LoRaWAN, with …

Nokia and Tencent will make research into 5G-enabled internet-of-things (IoT) applications for industry verticals including transportation, energy and manufacturing a major part of their new collaboration in China, based out of a new test lab in Shenzhen. The pair said …

Baudi deploys new Blockchain-as-a-Service platform China’s search engine giant Baidu recently deployed a Blockchain as-a-Service (BaaS) called Baidu Trust. Blockchain refers to a technology that enables users to make transactions online. The technology consists of records called blocks, which are …