Baidu fired PR boss for bad PR
Published in News
Monday, 13 May 2024 10:50

Baidu fired PR boss for bad PR


Bragging about treating your staff as slaves is not a good look these days 

Baidu's PR boss's controversial actions initially garnered her a significant following but have now led to her dismissal.

China starting to ignore US chips
Published in Graphics
Wednesday, 08 November 2023 11:31

China starting to ignore US chips


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.

Baidu creates own AI chatbot
Published in AI
Monday, 30 January 2023 12:09

Baidu creates own AI chatbot


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.

Xilinx powers Baidu’s ACU for Automated Valet Parking
Published in Transportation


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)

Jack Ma outed as a communist
Published in News
Tuesday, 27 November 2018 13:49

Jack Ma outed as a communist


China’s most famous capitalist

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

Blackberry is back from the dead
Published in News
Thursday, 04 January 2018 11:29

Blackberry is back from the dead


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.

Baidu boss investigated for not driving
Published in News
Thursday, 06 July 2017 12:23

Baidu boss investigated for not driving


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.

China hopes to poach anti-Trump tech refugees
Published in News
Wednesday, 07 December 2016 12:55

China hopes to poach anti-Trump tech refugees


Huge opportunity


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

Intel quietly launches Apollo Lake
Published in PC Hardware
Monday, 05 September 2016 14:54

Intel quietly launches Apollo Lake


2nd 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. 

Nvidia signs deal with Baidu over AI
Published in News
Thursday, 01 September 2016 16:42

Nvidia signs deal with Baidu over AI


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.