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From July 16 to 29, the APEC Digital and AI Ministerial Meeting and Digital Week events will be held in Chengdu, China western megacity, marking the first time such a high-level APEC digital economy forum takes place in China interior. The selection of Chengdu reflects a deliberate national strategy to showcase China interior digital transformation and to promote bala...

The semiconductor industry is experiencing a rare triple catalyst convergence. Huawei Tao Law V2 published measured Kirin 2026 chip data on July 3, Goldman Sachs shifted capital allocation toward semiconductor supply chains, and China chip companies reported explosive mid-year earnings. The convergence is driving the broadest semiconductor rally in years, with the CSI...

Zhongqi Wuliang, a Shanghai-based quantum computing startup incubated from the Chinese Academy of Sciences Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, will debut the world first data-center-grade quantum computer concept at the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference. The second-generation server-form-factor device is designed for direct deployment in stand...

JD.com has broken ground on its first Robot Base facility in Guangzhou, marking the e-commerce giant formal entry into the embodied AI industry. The approximately 1 billion RMB investment facility, expected to complete construction by 2028 and reach full production by 2030 with an annual output value of 1.75 billion RMB, will focus on embodied AI, industrial robots, s...

A joint team from Peking University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences Shanghai Institute of Microsystems has developed the world first millisecond-level neural dynamics chip based on phase-change memristors, published in Science on July 14. The 40nm chip integrates in-memory computing arrays for matrix operations and step-drift arrays for adaptive integration, occup...