Tensions flare between US and China over Huawei’s AI chips
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China said it could take legal action against anyone enforcing US restrictions on using Huawei Technologies Co.’s AI chips, escalating a dispute that’s upset a tentative truce on tariffs.
One example is that enforcing the US restrictions on Huawei AI chips could run afoul of China’s Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law.
Phone call between two leaders follows EU proposal to impose handling fees on cheap parcels, mostly from China.
Some of China's tech advances are on display at Macau's Beyond Expo, including humanoid robots. The show unfolds against a backdrop of simmering tensions between the US and China over access to semiconductors.
Although under direct threat from the U.S. restrictions, Huawei is advancing in indigenous chipmaking. Chinese AI firms such as DeepSeek are likely to turn to Huawei's latest Ascend circuits to power their machine models in the absence of U.S. alternatives, in what is becoming a central part of the tech war and holds national security implications.
A new report today from Bloomberg refers to this battle over AI chips between China's Huawei and the United States' Nvidia. China was the instigator today as Beijing threatened to take legal action against anyone enforcing restrictions placed on Huawei's semiconductors by the U.
Malaysia declared it’ll build a first-of-its-kind AI system powered by Huawei Technologies Co. chips, only to distance itself from that statement a day later, underscoring the Asian nation’s delicate position in the US-Chinese AI race.
The rankings were based on domestic consumers’ online purchase behaviour, according to a Peking University report.
Aito, which is backed by Huawei, sold more luxury vehicles in China last year than BMW and Mercedes, with its flagship M9 SUV proving popular.