Bad news for the US

Just as we predicted the US embargo against supplying chips to China has backfired and now Middle Kingdom companies are buying locally.

Ernie outperforms Bert in China

Baidu is set to roll out its own AI chatbot in March. It will also be embedded into Baidu's main search services, meaning users could soon get conversation-style search results.

Reprogrammable automotive hardware for Tier 1 and OEM’s

Western readers are mostly focused on the automotive market of Europe, the USA, Japan and S Korea and in the last few years, China has become the automotive superpower. Automated Valet Parking and hardware necessary to make it a reality is highly complex, and Xilinx’s Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC (XAZU5EV) scored a hit with Baidu’s Apollo Computing Unit (ACU)

China’s most famous capitalist

Jack Ma, the creator of e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, has been outed as a Communist Party member.

Deal confirms ex-mobile maker has a new life

BlackBerry  and Chinese internet search outfit Baidu signed a deal to jointly develop self-driving vehicle technology, sending BlackBerry’s shares up 13 percent to a four year high as shareholders realised that the company really does now have  a life after it abandoned smartphones.

Tested a driverless car on a public road

Baidu China's Google is under investigation after its chief executive tested a driverless car on public roads.

Huge opportunity

China is hoping to take advantage of Donald “Prince of Orange” Trump's election and boost its tech output on foreign expertise.

2^nd generation 14nm Celeron / Pentium

Apollo Lake is a second generation 14nm SoC for entry level tablets and computers and it serves the market that used to be known as Atom processors. Nowadays, Intel calls these CPUs Celeron and Pentium and the new generation was made available on Friday. 

Self driving cars is the name of the game

Baidu is holding its world conference in Beijing today and has signed a partnership with Nvidia to build a so called “cloud to car” autonomous platform for car makers and for the Chinese market.

Fires four for bribery