China Internet Restrictions

China plans to implement new regulations that will restrict the duration of time and the amount of money people can spend on video games.

China's internet giants are reportedly rushing to acquire high-performance Nvidia chips vital for building generative artificial intelligence systems, making orders worth $5 billion.

A senate committee in Australia has recommended a swathe of rules and restrictions for social media platforms, including potentially banning WeChat on government devices. Companies like TikTok and WeChat posed "unique national security risks" because their parent companies, ByteDance and Tencent, are headquartered in China and subject to its nation...

US lawmakers are considering changes to address concerns about a bill that would give the Biden administration new powers to ban Chinese-owned TikTok, the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Democratic Senator Mark Warner, who has cosponsored the legislation said on Monday.

Shares of US chipmakers fell on Wednesday following a report that the Biden administration was planning new curbs on export of computing chips for artificial intelligence to China as early as July. Companies such as Nvidia, Advanced Micro Devices and Intel, which rely on the world's second largest economy for at least a fifth of their revenue, fell...

The United States is reportedly considering new restrictions on exports of artificial intelligence (AI) chips to China. The Commerce Department will stop the shipments of chips made by Nvidia and other chip companies to customers in China as early as July, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter.

EU industry chief Thierry Breton on Thursday urged more EU countries to join the 10 that have restricted or banned China's Huawei and ZTE from their 5G telecoms networks, citing risks to the bloc's collective security. Breton has in recent weeks voiced concerns that some EU countries still have perceived high risk components in their 5G core networ...

Industry heavyweight Masao Maruyama warns that the Japanese anime business could be overtaken by the Chinese competition, owing to a tilt towards commercialism. The protege of manga great Osamu Tezuka fears that Japan is losing its edge. ‘The only reason China hasn't quite caught up with Japan yet is because of a bunch of restrictions imposed on ...

Semiconductor manufacturer Yangtze Memory Technologies Co (YMTC) is set to receive 12.9 billion yuan (roughly Rs. 15,378 crore) from the state-owned National Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund, Bloomberg reported on Thursday, citing government data.

Tencent is planning to host a Valorant esports tournament as the FPS game rolls out in China, following a two-year industry crackdown. Talks are in their initial stages and Tencent could push back its timeline from its predicted summer window. A Valorant league should help kickstart competitive online gaming in China after pandemic restrictions and...

Apple posted its first quarterly drop in revenue since 2016, after weak iPhone sales during the recent holiday season caused by pandemic-related restrictions on its factories in China. Unlike its peers in technology, Apple hasn’t signaled any intention to resort to mass layoffs, despite the quarterly downturn.

Foxconn said on Thursday that output at its iPhone manufacturing plant for iPhones at Zhengzhou in China had "basically returned to normal". The iPhone assembler also revealed that the company's December revenue was down 12.3 percent year-on-year, and the announcement comes months after it was hit by disruptions at the factory over workers' wages a...

Reducing the number of emails that are sent and deleting them is claimed to reduce an individual's carbon footprint, an idea that has also been propagated in various news stories. However, quantifying the carbon footprint of sending emails, or any other digital service, is not an easy task. Here's everything you need to know about whether sending f...

China's SMIC, the country's largest chipmaker is ramping up its production of decade-old 28nm chips, as US lawmakers raise concerns that the country could flood the market with chips still widely used in automotive, weapons and Internet of things (IoT) devices.

Foxconn said that its sales for November were down 11.4 percent from the year before, as the company's shipments were affected by a COVID-19 outbreak at the firm's biggest China plant. The company's iPhone plant in Zhengzhou was rocked by violent protests last month, leading to an exodus of workers from the factory.

China plans to implement new regulations that will restrict the duration of time and the amount of money people can spend on video games.

China's internet giants are reportedly rushing to acquire high-performance Nvidia chips vital for building generative artificial intelligence systems, making orders worth $5 billion.

A senate committee in Australia has recommended a swathe of rules and restrictions for social media platforms, including potentially banning WeChat on government devices. Companies like TikTok and WeChat posed "unique national security risks" because their parent companies, ByteDance and Tencent, are headquartered in China and subject to its nation...

US lawmakers are considering changes to address concerns about a bill that would give the Biden administration new powers to ban Chinese-owned TikTok, the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Democratic Senator Mark Warner, who has cosponsored the legislation said on Monday.

Shares of US chipmakers fell on Wednesday following a report that the Biden administration was planning new curbs on export of computing chips for artificial intelligence to China as early as July. Companies such as Nvidia, Advanced Micro Devices and Intel, which rely on the world's second largest economy for at least a fifth of their revenue, fell...

The United States is reportedly considering new restrictions on exports of artificial intelligence (AI) chips to China. The Commerce Department will stop the shipments of chips made by Nvidia and other chip companies to customers in China as early as July, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter.

EU industry chief Thierry Breton on Thursday urged more EU countries to join the 10 that have restricted or banned China's Huawei and ZTE from their 5G telecoms networks, citing risks to the bloc's collective security. Breton has in recent weeks voiced concerns that some EU countries still have perceived high risk components in their 5G core networ...

Industry heavyweight Masao Maruyama warns that the Japanese anime business could be overtaken by the Chinese competition, owing to a tilt towards commercialism. The protege of manga great Osamu Tezuka fears that Japan is losing its edge. ‘The only reason China hasn't quite caught up with Japan yet is because of a bunch of restrictions imposed on ...

Semiconductor manufacturer Yangtze Memory Technologies Co (YMTC) is set to receive 12.9 billion yuan (roughly Rs. 15,378 crore) from the state-owned National Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund, Bloomberg reported on Thursday, citing government data.

Tencent is planning to host a Valorant esports tournament as the FPS game rolls out in China, following a two-year industry crackdown. Talks are in their initial stages and Tencent could push back its timeline from its predicted summer window. A Valorant league should help kickstart competitive online gaming in China after pandemic restrictions and...

Apple posted its first quarterly drop in revenue since 2016, after weak iPhone sales during the recent holiday season caused by pandemic-related restrictions on its factories in China. Unlike its peers in technology, Apple hasn’t signaled any intention to resort to mass layoffs, despite the quarterly downturn.

Foxconn said on Thursday that output at its iPhone manufacturing plant for iPhones at Zhengzhou in China had "basically returned to normal". The iPhone assembler also revealed that the company's December revenue was down 12.3 percent year-on-year, and the announcement comes months after it was hit by disruptions at the factory over workers' wages a...

Reducing the number of emails that are sent and deleting them is claimed to reduce an individual's carbon footprint, an idea that has also been propagated in various news stories. However, quantifying the carbon footprint of sending emails, or any other digital service, is not an easy task. Here's everything you need to know about whether sending f...

China's SMIC, the country's largest chipmaker is ramping up its production of decade-old 28nm chips, as US lawmakers raise concerns that the country could flood the market with chips still widely used in automotive, weapons and Internet of things (IoT) devices.

Foxconn said that its sales for November were down 11.4 percent from the year before, as the company's shipments were affected by a COVID-19 outbreak at the firm's biggest China plant. The company's iPhone plant in Zhengzhou was rocked by violent protests last month, leading to an exodus of workers from the factory.