China is narrowing the artificial intelligence (AI) gap with the US through rapid progress in deploying applications and state-backed adoption of the technology, despite the lack of access to ...

In the June quarter, China saw sales of chip-making equipment - including tools for wafer processing, assembly, packaging and testing - jump 62 per cent year on year to more than US$12 billion.

But for both China and the US, this technology is about much more than cash. Chinese leader Xi Jinping has long aimed to turn his country into a science and economic powerhouse.

China’s antitrust regulator on Monday approved American chip design software giant Synopsys ’ US$35 billion acquisition of Ansys, weeks after the administration of US President Donald ...

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But for both China and the US, this technology is about much more than cash. Chinese leader Xi Jinping has long aimed to turn his country into a science and economic powerhouse.

In 2014, Chinese scientists introduced the idea of a national project on brain tech to match similar efforts in the US and Europe, according to the Ministry of Science and Technology.