Nvidia

Website

nvidia.com

Headquarters address

2788 San Tomas Expressway, Santa Clara, CA 95051, United States

Stock Code

NASDAQ:NVDA

Year founded

1993

Biren Technology is considered crucial to China’s efforts to reduce reliance on US chipmaker Nvidia amid Washington’s export curbs on advanced chips. Photo: Handout

Chinese chip start-up Biren bets on light-based ‘supernodes’ to match Nvidia

The firm uses near-packaged optics to bypass traditional architecture limits and scale more than 1,000 processor cards across a cluster.

2 hours agovideocam

Insert token: how China’s surging AI use is turning compute into currency

18 Jul 2026 - 10:00AM

Xi’s call on AI, Trump blasts China, US tariffs

17 Jul 2026 - 5:18PM

Chinese Nvidia alternatives project massive sales as AI chip demand surges

Moore Threads and Hygon are capitalising on surging demand for AI computing power as they race to fill the void left by Washington’s export controls.

17 Jul 2026 - 6:03PM

Moore Threads, a GPU start-up founded in 2020, is now one of China’s most closely watched semiconductor players. Photo: Moore Threads

BrainCo claims mind-to-robot link at China’s World AI Conference

Hangzhou-based firm says users can control robots using only their thoughts via EEG headsets, marking a leap in embodied AI tech.

17 Jul 2026 - 4:18PM

Top takeaways from Xi Jinping’s opening address at the World AI Conference

The speech marks the Chinese president’s first-ever keynote address at the nation’s premier artificial intelligence summit.

17 Jul 2026 - 11:40AM

Humanoids to Huawei: what to watch as Xi attends China’s top AI event

Gathering will showcase Beijing’s push to compete across the full AI stack, from models and chips to robots, consumer devices.

17 Jul 2026 - 9:00AM

People walk near the entrance of the the Shanghai World Expo Exhibition and Convention Center, venue for the World Artificial Intelligence Conference, in Shanghai on July 16. Photo: AFP

Beijing denounces US chip curbs as threat to global supply chains

Move to incorporate three China-focused export control measures into the NDAA marks a new escalation in the US technology rivalry.

17 Jul 2026 - 5:13AMvideocam

Exclusive | Anthropic, China and why Pax Silica architect thinks the US can keep AI lead

Brief curbs on foreign access to Anthropic’s Fable and Mythos models designed to keep infrastructure safe, Jacob Helberg says.

17 Jul 2026 - 1:30AMvideocam

Britain

UK court jails young hackers for massive London transport cyberattack

The pair, aged 18 and 20, hacked into the transport network in 2024, gaining access to around 7 million customers’ names and contacts.

16 Jul 2026 - 8:50PM

People wait for trains at Westminster Tube station in London. Photo: Reuters

Shanghai

Shanghai’s computing-grid coordination marks a national first

Led by State Grid’s local subsidiary, trial marks the largest single city-level adjustment of computing power load, says official newspaper.

16 Jul 2026 - 7:00PM

Shanghai has pioneered the synergisation of computing centres with the power grid for peak-load management – a national first – as part of Beijing’s push to enhance computing-grid coordination. Photo: Handout

Japan

Nvidia chief Jensen Huang seals Japan robotics push after ‘yakitori summit’

Huang has shown his personable side by dining with business partners at local restaurants during his recent visits to other countries.

16 Jul 2026 - 4:52PMvideocam

US hardens AI stance on China as Anthropic calls for extending lead

AI company urges tighter export controls, saying Chinese rivals are rapidly closing the gap through unauthorised model distillation.

16 Jul 2026 - 6:05AM

China stock market

Chinese AI stock trade remains intact despite 10% correction, Fed jitters

Global investors’ diversification into Chinese assets coupled with strong AI earnings could make the pullback in tech stocks short-lived.

15 Jul 2026 - 2:34PMvideocam

People walk beneath a large screen showing the latest stock exchange and economic data in Shanghai. The tech-centric Star Market 50 Index has experienced a decline of more than 10 per cent in the last two weeks. Photo: EPA

US-China trade war

US says Nvidia’s H200 exports to China remain ‘trivial’ despite approvals

US commerce official Jeffrey Kessler says only a ‘very small quantity’ of AI chips have reached mainland China and Hong Kong so far.

15 Jul 2026 - 5:13AMvideocam

A top US official told Congress on Tuesday that "very few" Nvidia H200 chips have been shipped to China or Hong Kong to date. Photo: Reuters

Technology

Opinion | Clash of the tech titans: China’s quiet industry vs loud US innovation

At the heart of the battle for AI dominance is a deeper contest between two very different leadership styles.

14 Jul 2026 - 4:30PMvideocam

US-China tech war

Nvidia’s future challenger? Chinese start-up reveals aggressive AI chip road map

As US sanctions block access to advanced lithography, a Shanghai-based firm bets on chip redesign, 3D memory stacking to break bottlenecks.

14 Jul 2026 - 2:02AMvideocam

Chinese chip start-up launches 8-inch production line pilot for 2D chips

The company says the production line launch marks a critical step towards China’s drive for tech self-sufficiency.

11 Jul 2026 - 1:20PM

A Chinese chip start-up has launched what it claims to be the world’s first 8-inch production line for two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors. Photo: qq.com

What are AI ‘world models’ and why is China becoming a top testing ground?

Increasingly, AI systems are expected to predict how environments will respond to actions before they are taken.

10 Jul 2026 - 8:30PM

US-China tech war

Nvidia gets China boost, Iran ceasefire breaks, GDP release

This week: China allows limited imports of Nvidia H200 chips, the US and Iran resume attacks in the Middle East, and a Chinese submarine fires a test missile into the Pacific Ocean. Next week: Second-quarter GDP numbers come out, CXMT starts mainland IPO, Hong Kong Book Fair opens its doors, and more.

13 Jul 2026 - 9:50AM

Game-changer? Why China is finally letting its AI firms buy the Nvidia H200

Beijing aims to ‘temporarily ease the training bottleneck’ in China’s AI industry, but it remains focused on tech self-sufficiency, analysts say.

9 Jul 2026 - 11:54PM

Beijing is reportedly set to allow limited purchases of Nvidia’s H200 graphics processing unit. Photo: Nvidia

Why Chinese AI labs like DeepSeek and Zhipu are looking beyond models to chips

Custom silicon allows for hardware optimisation tailored to specific architectures, such as the DeepSeek-R1 model.

9 Jul 2026 - 4:00PM

Custom AI chips offer better performance per dollar and per watt when designed around a hyperscaler’s own software stack and data-centre architecture. Photo: Shutterstock Images

China’s circuit-board makers push capex towards record to feed AI boom

Hundreds of millions of dollars invested in high-end plants as more than 20 PCB makers disclose aggressive expansion plans.

8 Jul 2026 - 10:00PM

China economy

Opinion | Are the US’ AI models better than China’s? That may be beside the point

Rather than fight US frontier AI control, China is thinning the margins of premium AI with cheap-enough, good-enough models for mass adoption.

8 Jul 2026 - 4:30PMvideocam

China’s Biren seeks US$900m to fund GPU push and challenge Nvidia

The company says 60 per cent of the fresh capital will be for commercialisation and mass production of next generation general-purpose GPUs.

6 Jul 2026 - 5:14PM

Biren Technology chairman and CEO Zhang Wen at the company’s listing ceremony in Hong Kong, January 2, 2026. Photo: Jonathan Wong

Science

Chinese team’s brain-mimicking chip ‘up to 478 times faster than Nvidia GPU’

New chip performs data storage and computation in a single memory array, enabling real-time modelling of complex brain structures, team says.

4 Jul 2026 - 7:30PMvideocam

The breakthrough “opens up new possibilities for brain-computer interfaces and the diagnosis and treatment of brain diseases”, lead author of study published in Science says. Photo: Shutterstock

Banking & finance

‘Big Short’ 2.0? US hedge fund manager warns of a global AI bubble

China’s AI stocks entered the second half of 2026 with improving earnings momentum, but scepticism about the sector is increasing.

3 Jul 2026 - 8:00AM