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Iris Deng
Senior Reporter, Technology
Iris is a Senior Technology Reporter based in Shenzhen. She covers Southern China's tech and internet sectors, focusing on smartphones, robotics, the hardware supply chain, and tech giants like Apple, Huawei and Tencent. Joining in 2018, she previously covered the tech sector across Greater Bay Area and mainland China from Hong Kong.
Iris is a Senior Technology Reporter based in Shenzhen. She covers Southern China's tech and internet sectors, focusing on smartphones, robotics, the hardware supply chain, and tech giants like Apple, Huawei and Tencent. Joining in 2018, she previously covered the tech sector across Greater Bay Area and mainland China from Hong Kong.
Areas of Expertise:
China technology, smartphone, supply chainLanguages Spoken:
Cantonese, English, Mandarin
In the wake of a cyberattack on a local Apple partner, insiders say India has a long way to go before challenging China as a manufacturer.
Major smartphone vendors will try to abandon the money-losing segment despite strong consumer demand, and pivot to more value-added products.
Screenshots of the executive’s eye-watering compensation went viral on social media, which Tencent said caused a ‘severe negative impact’.
The surge in compute capacity underpins Beijing’s ambition to establish itself as a national ‘AI highland’.
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Experts at WAIC discuss the bottlenecks preventing embodied AI from improving robots’ real-world interactions.
The industry is staggering under a chip shortage that has dragged down shipments, forcing handset makers to recalibrate strategies.
Riding on the AI boom, the Taiwanese chipmaker’s net income jumped 77 per cent to NT$706.6 billion (US$22 billion) in the second quarter.
Coin-sized implant marks a breakthrough in neurotechnology, underscoring China’s bid to lead the global race against Elon Musk’s Neuralink.
Europe’s lethal heatwave drives China’s appliance giant to sprint production and slash delivery times.
Computer vendors in Shenzhen are raising their prices, as the AI boom drives a fivefold jump in the cost of key memory products.
The chip is set to power the Mate handset and will use Huawei’s Tau Scaling Law framework, which drastically shortens distance that signals travel in circuit.
Other member states have also put the deal under scrutiny, including an ongoing foreign investment clearance process in Austria and Spain.
In December, the FCC banned the import of new models of Chinese drones, including those made by DJI, the world’s largest drone manufacturer.
Some Chinese consumers are anticipating potential price hikes for the upcoming iPhone series, and are reconsidering their upgrade plans.
Huawei and Cambricon are set to dominate China’s AI server market as geopolitics and self-reliance accelerate Nvidia’s retreat.
The firm, a key supplier for AirPods and iPhones, is a step closer to joining other mainland Chinese tech heavyweights in HKEX listing.
The developers asked the antitrust regulator to investigate and penalise Apple for allegedly ‘abusing the company’s market dominance’.
Small, found in almost every electronic device and critical to AI servers, now the ‘rice of electronics’ is driving two Hong Kong IPOs.
The Shenzhen-listed components maker is using a Hong Kong float to fund its push into AI servers, smart glasses and robotics.
Huaqiangbei traders are racing to secure MLCC supplies as soaring AI demand pushes prices sharply higher across the market.
Power-hungry data centres fuel demand for MLCCs, which are crucial components for modern innovations including smartphones and electric cars.
He Tingbo says her epiphany came from an ancient irrigation system in Sichuan province, built without modern machinery or electricity.
HarmonyOS 7 introduces an agent-friendly architecture and upgraded AI assistant as Huawei seeks to capitalise on Apple’s China AI gap.
The AI server boom is driving demand for advanced multilayer ceramic capacitors, leaving Chinese manufacturers room to expand.
For most of the world, a public beta of Siri AI will be coming out later this year for devices set to English.
Yao says he does not think ChatGPT and Claude Code will be the only super apps, as ‘new opportunities will inevitably emerge’.
As Tencent prepares a rival WeChat agent, Alibaba is moving quickly to turn Qwen from a chatbot into a digital concierge for everyday life.
Two travel agencies specialising in cross-strait travel say none of their clients have received entry-permit approvals this year.
An AI agent would leverage the app’s ecosystem of mini-programs, payments, content and commerce for 1.4 billion users.
