India’s homebrew RISC-V CPU goes on sale in new development board: PLUS: Huawei’s tablets beat iPad sales; Japanese supermarket’s long ransomware fight; Do Kwon ...
theregister.com/2024/02/26/asia_tech_news_roundup/
China Unicom becomes Middle Kingdom's second carrier with a billion subscribers: Rivals aren't far behind and 5G numbers are huge, but growth is slowing
theregister.com/2024/02/21/china_unicom_mobile_telecom_statistics/
5.5G touted as the network to bring improved enterprise connectivity: The advanced version of 5G networks will support new use cases, including for AI.
zdnet.com/article/5-5g-touted-as-the-network-to-bring-improved-enterprise-connectivity/
China to name Unicom CEO Liu as head of new data bureau-sources: China plans to appoint the CEO of state-owned telecoms giant China Unicom (0762.HK), (600050.SS) ...
reuters.com/business/media-telecom/china-name-unicom-ceo-liu-head-new-data-bureau-sources-2023-07-18/
China Unicom to delete users' mobile travel data in COVID-hit areas: Chinese state-owned telecom giant China Unicom (0762.HK) said on Monday it will delete ...
reuters.com/business/media-telecom/china-unicom-delete-users-mobile-travel-data-covid-hit-areas-2022-12-12/
Tencent, China Unicom get approval for joint venture: Tencent Holdings (0700.HK) and state-owned telecommunications company China Unicom (600050 ...
reuters.com/markets/asia/tencent-china-unicom-gain-approval-set-up-mixed-ownership-company-2022-11-02/
Some American techies can still work for Chinese chipmakers, turns out: But if you authorize or handle delivery of factory kit – or service it – you're out
theregister.com/2022/11/03/us_chip_workers_china/
China dumps dud chips on Russia, Moscow media moans: What? Sanctions-busting sellers aren't interested in your complaints? That's a shame
theregister.com/2022/10/18/russia_china_semiconductro_failure_rates/
'Odor simulation' included in China's national VR plan: Beijing nose best, wants VR to work in sport, tourism. industrial sims, at 8K with 60fps
theregister.com/2022/11/02/china_vr_plan_odor_simulation/
Pro-China crew ramps up disinfo ahead of US midterms. Not that anyone's falling for it
theregister.com/2022/10/27/chinese_misinformation_dragonbridge_elections/
Is it any surprise that 'permacrisis' is the word of the year?: It's enough to make you want to sploot
theregister.com/2022/11/01/permacrisis_word_of_the_year/
Crowds not allowed to leave Shanghai Disneyland without a negative COVID test: Let us go, let us gooooooo
theregister.com/2022/11/02/crowds_trapped_disney_shanghai/
Kioxia warns Uncle Sam: Be careful what you wish for with China sanctions: Nice NAND industry you have there, would be a shame if something happened to it
theregister.com/2022/11/01/kioxia_china_us_policy/
Self-driving truck startup TuSimple ousts CEO over ties with Chinese biz: Boss denies any wrongdoing as Feds reportedly stick a probe in, too
theregister.com/2022/11/01/tusimple_selfdriving_ceo_fired/
China promises its digital currency will offer 'controllable anonymity': This means personal info will be captured but not used – unless you're a suspected ...
theregister.com/2022/11/01/digital_yuan_cbdc_controllable_anonymity/
Uncle Sam says these Chinese nationals are Beijing agents breaking the law on US soil
theregister.com/2022/10/24/justice_department_china_charges/
China's third and final module docks with Tiangong space station: Bets on where the Long March 5B will land now?
theregister.com/2022/11/01/china_final_module_tiangong/
US chip industry worried it may lose out to rivals over China ban: Just hang on while we convince the rest of the world, Commerce Sec tells makers
theregister.com/2022/11/04/us_chip_industry_china_ban/
China's drive for efficient datacenters has made liquid cooling mainstream: Inspur says server shoppers can't wait to chill out
theregister.com/2022/10/31/china_liquid_cooling_demand_surges/
China reminds world shock and ore can hurt tech supply chains: Nice chip and EV factories you're building there. Would be a shame if they couldn't get ...
theregister.com/2022/11/03/china_rare_earth_supply_chain/
iPhone factory workers bussed home to avoid COVID, Foxconn urges them to stay: Don't the factory workers of China know that the season of huge shopping ...
theregister.com/2022/11/02/foxconn_zhengzhou_covid_closure/
China outlines plan for National Integrated Government Affairs Big Data System: Three million datasets to be thoroughly integrated in the name of efficiency ...
theregister.com/2022/10/31/china_government_big_data_system/
SK hynix, Samsung, TSMC granted one-year reprieve from China chip restrictions: Uncle Sam is giving out exemptions like Halloween candy to its allies
theregister.com/2022/10/13/sk_hynix_china_chip_reprieve/
Seagate denies it illegally sold hard drives to Huawei: While shedding 1 in 12 staff as demand for storage nosedives
theregister.com/2022/10/26/seagate_layoffs_huawei/
China upgrades Great Firewall to defeat censor-beating TLS tools: Just in time to ensure nobody can disagree that giving Xi five more years as president is the ...
theregister.com/2022/10/06/great_firewall_of_china_upgrades/
NSA urges enterprises to watch China, Taiwan tensions: Have you thought about your supply chains, partnerships, and how far they reach?
theregister.com/2022/10/18/as_chinataiwan_tensions_mount_hows/
Google Translate dropped in mainland China: Search engine was banned so no surprise no one was using it
theregister.com/2022/10/03/google_translate_china_axed/
India's Home Ministry cracks down on predatory lending apps following suicides: Local media say they're China backed, Ministry only mentions organized crime
theregister.com/2022/11/01/india_lending_app_crackdown_ordered/
Reds on the beds: Putin's war sparks Chinese chip boom, starting with electric blankets
theregister.com/2022/10/11/electric_blanket_chip_boom/
China-linked Budworm burrows hole in US legislature systems: Also, Senator Warren says banks need to grow the Zelle up, an AirTag does some good – if you’re a ...
theregister.com/2022/10/17/in-brief-security/
Chinese carriers collectively claim to have cracked a billion 5G subs: 5G was meant to top a billion subs globally this year – China may have done it ...
theregister.com/2022/10/25/china_5g_carrier_subscriptions_data/
China bottom of internet freedom study for 8th straight year: Freedom House also gave big downgrades to Russia, Myanmar, Sudan and Libya.
rfa.org/english/news/china/china-net-freedom-10182022043921.html
China could use Digital Yuan to swerve Russia-style sanctions: GCHQ spy boss talks up threat of east's tech dominance, says Putin has 'badly ...
theregister.com/2022/10/11/gchq_fleming_russia_china_currency/
Economic cold war looms as Chinese chipmakers feel sting of US trade restrictions
theregister.com/2022/10/21/economic_cold_war_looms_as/
Modified version of Tor Browser spies on Chinese users: Patiently gathers data that can be used to identify the victims, says Kaspersky
theregister.com/2022/10/05/tor_browser_china_spy_kasperksy_research/
South Korea relieved US China chip ban won't bite, as Beijing fumes: PLUS: SK hynix outgasses Putin; Canon's new litho plant; Equinix into Indonesia; and ...
theregister.com/2022/10/10/china_fumes_over_us_chip_ban/
China may prove Arm wrong about RISC-V's role in the datacenter: Cloud and equipment vendors also keen to escape Arm's licensing boot
theregister.com/2022/10/05/china_riscvv_arm_datacenter/
China's infosec researchers obeyed Beijing and stopped reporting vulns ... or did they?
theregister.com/2022/09/27/atlantic_council_china_vuln_research/
IETF, Internet Society worry UN's ITU meeting could threaten the open internet: Russia, China believe in more national control, maybe baked into standards ...
theregister.com/2022/09/29/itu_plenipotentiary_open_internet_fight/
Biden cuts off China's Yangtze, 30 others from US chipmaking gear: So is this why YMTC's CEO stepped down?
theregister.com/2022/10/07/biden_china_chips/
Tencent has its Meta moment as CEO Pony Ma outlines 'immersive convergence': Video confs to add multi-sensory interaction and by 2040 maybe even brain/machine ...
theregister.com/2022/09/29/tencent_immersive_convergence/
China's central bank declares victory over online lenders, Bitcoin speculators: Just in time for the Party Congress, whatever the reality of the situation
theregister.com/2022/09/28/pboc_virtual_currency/
Chinese city of Shenzhen offers free money to boost chip industry: Throwing cash at industry to keep chip well from running dry as US sanctions continue to bite
theregister.com/2022/10/12/chinese_city_of_shenzhen_chip_funds/
China spins up giant battery built with US-patented tech: World's largest VRFB was built with inadvertent help from the Department of Energy
theregister.com/2022/09/30/chinese_battery_vrfb_us_patents/
Alibaba Cloud reveals billion dollar 'ecosystem upgrade': It's mostly a channel program with a fancy name, plus more outposts
theregister.com/2022/09/26/alibaba_cloud_ecosystem_uopgrade/
UK.gov's decision on Newport Wafer Fab ownership delayed for third time: Department of Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy yet to rule on sale of Brit biz to ...
theregister.com/2022/10/04/newport_wafer_fab_decision_delayed_nexperia_china/
USA adds two more Chinese carriers on 'probably a threat to national security' list
theregister.com/2022/09/21/fcc_puts_pacific_network_and/
China discovers new mineral on the moon, names it Changesite-(Y): Helium-3 also draws excitement as future fusion energy source
theregister.com/2022/09/12/china_discovers_new_mineral_on/
Ex-Googler Eric Schmidt's think tank warns China could win global tech race: USA told to sort itself out in 5G, AI, and microelectronics by 2025 – or things ...
theregister.com/2022/09/14/special_competitive_studies_project_report/
GPT-3 'prompt injection' attack causes bad bot manners: Also, EA goes kernel-deep to stop cheaters, PuTTY gets hijacked by North Korea, and more.
theregister.com/2022/09/19/in_brief_security/
Philippines Space Agency warns flyers, fishing boats, to avoid falling Chinese rockets
theregister.com/2022/09/15/philippines_chinese_space_junk_warning/
Chinese researchers make car glide 35mm above ground in maglev test: Forget self-driving cars, the Middle Kingdom has floating cars now
theregister.com/2022/09/13/china_maglev_car_tests/
Former Newport Wafer Fab owner linked to buyback from China's Nexperia: If you think customers were impatient before, this report won't soothe their worries
theregister.com/2022/09/15/newport_wafer_fab/
China to launch space tourism by 2025, says industry veteran: Asserts Beijing can achieve parity with US capabilities within a decade, thanks to burgeoning ...
theregister.com/2022/09/20/china_to_shoot_tourists_into/
China's single aisle passenger jet – the C919 – likely to be certified next week: Competes with the A320 and 737, which Airbus and Boeing can't build quickly ...
theregister.com/2022/09/14/chinas_c919_passenger_jet_certification/
China orders tech companies to 'improve traceability' of users to control 'rumours and false information'
theregister.com/2022/09/05/asia_in_brief/
Xi Jinping hails 'improved cyber ecology', says state to direct strategic tech research
theregister.com/2022/10/16/asia_tech_roundup/
US pulls the plug on more China telecos: Beijing expressed opposition after the US Federal Communications Commission banned three Chinese telcos from selling ...
asiatimes.com/2022/09/us-pulls-the-plug-on-more-china-telecos/
Taiwan chip magnate pledges cash for defense against China: 'I'm telling everyone to oppose the CCP'
theregister.com/2022/09/02/taiwan_chip_magnate_pledges_cash/
As China’s Cybersecurity Week begins, Beijing claims US attacked Uni that does military research
theregister.com/2022/09/07/china_accuses_usa_nsa_cyberattack/
China's tech juggernauts form metaverse research institute: Meanwhile, Mark Zuckerberg's Meta spends billions on the concept
theregister.com/2022/08/23/china_metaverse_meta_facebook/
US bans export of tech used in 3nm chip production on security grounds: Not mentioned: China. Obvious target: China – even if the country hasn't designed ...
theregister.com/2022/08/15/us_bans_3nm_exports/
China's Baidu enters quantum computing chat with Qian Shi system: A small but functional quantum system accelerating science, not search
theregister.com/2022/08/25/china_baidu_quantum_computing/
Two thirds of DNS queries for IPv6 hosts sent to Chinese resolvers fail, researchers find
theregister.com/2022/08/18/dns_china_resolution_data/
Supply chain worries heat up again as China shuts down factories to cool its citizens
theregister.com/2022/08/16/china_heatwave_factory_shutdowns/
China cybersecurity regulator wants to support tech growth: New and friendlier CAC, after years of cracking down
theregister.com/2022/08/23/china_cybersecurity_regulator_now_wants/
China's internet regulator details algorithms used by local Big Tech players: Beijing lifts the lid on how Alibaba, Douyin, Tencent, Baidu do business – and ...
theregister.com/2022/08/15/cac_publishes_big_tech_algorithms/
Apple tells suppliers to use 'Taiwan, China' or 'Chinese Taipei' to appease Beijing
theregister.com/2022/08/05/apple_warns_suppliers_in_taiwan/
World record for strongest steady magnetic field 'broken' by Chinese team: Superconductive hybrid magnet claimed to be 4,500 times stronger than a fridge ...
theregister.com/2022/08/16/china_magnet_record/
Wave of corruption claims crash into China's chip Big Fund: On the same day the United States kickstarts one of its own
theregister.com/2022/08/09/china_chip_fund/
China-linked fake news site shows disinformation on the rise: Beijing-backed PR firm is behind at least 72 ersatz web titles, Mandiant says
theregister.com/2022/08/05/china_fake_news/
Taiwanese military reports DDoS in wake of Pelosi visit: Controversial visit to Taiwan continues to reverberate through cyberspace, the real world ...
theregister.com/2022/08/04/taiwanese_military_reports_ddos_in/
China's Xiaomi teases tech to control smart homes with brain waves: You'd wear a big clunky headband instead of invoking an assistant … why exactly?
theregister.com/2022/08/03/xiaomi_brainwave_tech/
Nancy Pelosi ties Chinese cyber-attacks to need for Taiwan visit: And is if to confirm the link, a DDoS takes out Taiwan's presidential website ahead of ...
theregister.com/2022/08/03/pelosi_taiwan_visit_cyberattacks/
China's internet companies are decelerating cloud consumption, says Alibaba: Starts chasing industrial digitization as its next big opportunity
theregister.com/2022/08/05/alibaba_q2_2022/
China's IT minister under investigation for violating law: Xiao Yaqing had been steering China's chip industry
theregister.com/2022/07/29/china_it_minister_under_investigation/
India proposes increased power to vet tech mergers: Chinese phone makers' tax deals probed; PayPal back in Indonesia; Boeing seeks sustainability in Japan; ...
theregister.com/2022/08/08/asia_tech_news_roundup/
Deepin prepares to leave Debian base and move to fully independent distro: Big changes are afoot in a forthcoming version, but they're not fully visible yet
theregister.com/2022/08/25/deepin_206_23/
5G in China: 1.97 million base stations and 475 million subscribers: 5G in China: 1.97 million base stations and 475 million subscribers. The country has the ...
gizchina.com/2022/08/20/5g-in-china-1-97-million-base-stations-and-475-million-subscribers/
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