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Chinese startup raises about $120 million from IPO on Nasdaq, due to start Friday, plus $320.5 million from a private placement
The battle to keep US money and advanced tech from boosting China's military and AI capabilities is likely to rage on no matter who wins the election, although the candidates' styles are very different
Freevoy is the world's first hybrid battery with a range of over 400km (249 miles), CATL's chief technology officer Gao Huan said
Chipmaker suspends deals with firm seen buying chips on behalf of Huawei after it was told the tech giant's Ascend 910B had a TSMC chip in its AI accelerator
Reports that Chinese tech company Xiaomi had designed a 3-nanometre chip were quickly deleted by state media, Hong Kong's top English news outlet said
Shenzhen Stock Exchange imposed bans on Hengda Real Estate and founder Hui Ka Yan, plus other senior executives late last month, liquidators said on Tuesday
Justice Dept rules would ban the relay of data on government personnel and put limits on business transactions if data was likely to end in "countries of concern"
Most companies in the AI sector will likely collapse once the 'bubble' bursts, Baidu CEO Robin Li has predicted
The Internet Archive and its Wayback Machine were offline for several days, when its vast catalogue of webpages and archives were inaccessible; it later restored a read-only version of Wayback.
TSMC was a key supplier for China's Huawei until 2020 when Washington introduced new rules that barred the firm from continuing to do so
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With a market cap of$240 billion, chipmaker ASML is Europe’s most valuable tech company. Its market-leading position comes from its monopoly in Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography (EUV) machines which allow chipmakers to make smaller, faster and smarter semiconductors
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PaymentsCan China Take Place of SWIFT System? Analysts Say ‘No’There is no global payment system that is strong enough to act as an alternative to SWIFT and enable Russia to evade sanctions
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MarketsChina Becomes World’s Second-Biggest Bitcoin Mining HubThe Bitcoin mining ban in China last year had collapsed its crypto markets. Despite that, the country has reemerged as a major bitcoin mining hub, according to research by the UK's University of Cambridge.
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Market InsightsHere’s How China Can Win the Tech War With USAThe Chinese government is doubling down on incentives for innovation, which it believes to be the cornerstone of its future growth and international position.
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Fintech InsightsAsia Becomes the Epicentre of Global NFTsAsia is the frontrunner in the NFTs craze with Central and Southeast Asia accounting for 35% of the $22 billion in global trade
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