With Google reportedly pursuing TPU deals with Meta and pressure mounting on NVIDIA’s dominance, a rising Chinese TPU startup is drawing attention. According to South China Morning Post, Zhonghao Xinying has positioned itself as a domestic alternative to NVIDIA, saying its self-developed general-p...

Photonic quantum chip is widely seen as a key pathway toward the practical deployment of optical quantum information technologies. Today’s mainstream photonic quantum chips typically rely on probabilistic single-photon sources generated through nonlinear optical processes, but the certain probabil...

Recently, a joint research team from Fudan University and Shaoxin Lab, led by Zhou Peng and Bao Wenzhong, has achieved another globally leading breakthrough in 2D semiconductor integrated circuit — the development of the world’s first field-programmable gate array (FPGA) fabricated using wafer-s...

As China doubles down on technological independence, Huawei and its ecosystem of partners have been pivotal to the effort. According to Nikkei, after U.S. sanctions the company in 2019, Huawei set up investment arms, including wholly owned subsidiary Hubble, to back more than 60 semiconductor compan...

Alongside acquisitions and support from national funds, China’s chip equipment sector has also welcomed a wave of new IPOs this year. In the testing equipment segment, Sidea Semiconductor Equipment was successfully listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange on March 24. The company focuses on developin...