Beijing regulators are asking firms like Alibaba, ByteDance and Tencent to justify their large orders for Nvidia chips, and even putting pressure on them to halt their purchases altogether

Chinese developers of large language models and artificial intelligence chip manufacturers including US-sanctioned Huawei, Biren, and Moore Threads will join hands to build an AI 'ecosystem'

China says the move would 'sell out the island's interests' and that it was aimed at 'currying favour' with the Donald Trump administration in the US

Beijing says it will invoke its anti-sanctions law against any individual or organisation that adheres to a recent US warning about Huawei's Ascend chips

Huawei, which slumped for several years after being hit with US sanctions, has managed to regain its dominant position in the Chinese smartphone market

Huawei is making an "an unprecedented effort to develop every part of the AI supply chain domestically," one expert told the Financial Times

Experts say that while it may be a 'hard pill for them to swallow', Chinese leaders are shifting their approach to the domestic tech industry

Apple chose Alibaba partly due to the e-commerce giant’s vast troves of personal data on users' shopping and payment habits, which could help train AI models

Beijing said it 'welcomed Nvidia's continued investment in China' and that it will support the chipmaker's efforts 'to continue to take root' in the country

The Chinese tech giant's latest smartphone series, Mate 70, is equipped with a homegrown 5G chip and its own operating system HarmonyOS Next

Chinese chipmakers are racing to rival Nvidia on AI chips as increasing export restrictions by US — and its allies — slow the growth of China’s tech industry

The move, which will have far-reaching consequences for China’s semiconductor supply chains and tech giants, came after US officials visited Taiwan last week