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China Begins Mass Production of Homegrown DUV Chip Tools

By The Information Staff · Jul 27, 2026 6:01am PDT
A Chinese state-backed company has begun manufacturing one of the key pieces of equipment used in chip manufacturing for the first time, a significant development in Beijing’s drive to reduce its reliance on foreign technology to make chips. The Shanghai-based company is making immersion deep ultraviolet lithography machines, used by chipmakers... A Chinese state-backed company has begun manufacturing one of the key pieces of equipment used in...
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Artificial Intelligence

Crackdown on AI Lovers Ignites Heartbreak in China—and Hopes to Get Them Back

By Henry Siu, Juro Osawa and Jing Yang · Jul 25, 2026 7:00am PDT
To combat her loneliness, An Xu, a 15-year-old middle schooler in Shanghai, had recently been relying for emotional support on her text and voice conversations with an AI companion on Doubao, China’s most popular AI chatbot app. AI companions are meant to mimic humanlike conversation, emotions and interactions as realistically as... To combat her loneliness, An Xu, a 15-year-old middle schooler in Shanghai, had recently been...
Windrose founder Wen Han. Photo by Windrose via PR Newswire
The Electric

China’s Windrose Needed U.S. ID Numbers. So It Borrowed a Georgia Address

By Steve LeVine · Jul 20, 2026 7:30am PDT
The last thing a consumer pondering the purchase of a new electric truck might think about is the origin of the 17-digit vehicle identification number that vehicle authorities everywhere use to keep track of cars and trucks. For Chinese long-haul truck startup Windrose Technology, though, the VIN numbers put on a handful of its trucks shipped to... The last thing a consumer pondering the purchase of a new electric truck might think about is the...
China Renaissance CEO Fan Bao. Photo by Bloomberg.
China Tech Summit

China Tech Headed for Record Year for IPOs Despite Pandemic

By Juro Osawa and Yunan Zhang · Jul 24, 2020 4:34am PDT
The head of China Renaissance Group, one of China’s most influential investment banking and private equity firms, said he expects 2020 to be a record-breaking year for Chinese tech initial public offerings. “Right now the IPO market is sizzling hot,” said China Renaissance CEO Fan Bao, at The Information’s video summit on... The head of China Renaissance Group, one of China’s most influential investment banking and...
Jessica Lessin interviews Alibaba's Joe Tsai. Photo by Brent Pottinger.
China Subscriber Summit

Watch Interviews From Beijing and Hong Kong Summits

By The Information Staff · Oct 6, 2017 2:47pm PDT · 1 comment
If you missed our summit meetings in Hong Kong and Beijing, you can catch up with the videos here. Among those on stage were Joe Tsai of Alibaba, Shou Zi Chew of Xiaomi and Bob Xu of Zhen Fund. If you missed our summit meetings in Hong Kong and Beijing, you can catch up with the videos...
Sinovation founder Kai-Fu Lee. Photo by Bloomberg.
Silicon China

How China-U.S. Tech Ties Have Evolved

By Shai Oster · Sep 27, 2017 11:59am PDT
Tucked inside a condo around the corner from a Palo Alto supermarket is the North American office of Sinovation Ventures. One of the most active investors in Chinese startups, Sinovation is also building a portfolio of companies in the U.S. The U.S. team is led by Chris Evdemon, a Greek-born, U.K.-educated venture capitalist who cut his teeth in... Tucked inside a condo around the corner from a Palo Alto supermarket is the North American office...