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China Tech Firms Gain Ground – WSJ
From the Wall Street Journal: China’s technology companies are closing the gap with their foreign rivals in productivity, positioning themselves to become a bigger threat to multinationals both in...
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China’s overtakes Japan on R&D – Geoff Dyer
From Financial Times: China has overtaken Japan to become the second biggest spender on research and development behind the US, a report from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development...
View ArticleUS Tightens High-tech Export Controls for China – Business Report
From Business Report: The United States late Friday slapped new restrictions on high-technology exports to China and moved to create a pool of so-called “trusted customers” within the Chinese business...
View ArticleChina-Taiwan Showdown Involves Politics, PCs – Glenn Smith
From PC Magazine: A politically savvy jingle in China goes: Visit Beijing, and you discover you’re nobody. Visit Shanghai, and you learn you’re poor. Visit Taiwan, and you relive the Cultural...
View ArticleChinese Manufacturing Giant Outgrows its Cradle
Plans are afoot to transform Guangdong Province, China’s manufacturing base, into a center for high-tech industries. From AP: It’s not just the global slowdown. In Guangdong’s Pearl River delta, where...
View ArticleChina Aims for Its Own Silicon Valley
Guangzhou, the world’s factory, is embarking on a plan to restructure into a center for the high-tech industry and innovation. The Christian Science Monitor reports: Like Japan and the Asian tigers...
View ArticleChina to Bid on US High-speed Rail Projects
China has been exporting the technology for high speed trains to Europe and Latin America and may soon do so in the U.S. From AP: China has built 4,000 miles (6,500 kilometers) of high-speed rail for...
View ArticleChina Drawing High-Tech Research From U.S.
The New York Times reports on some of America’s top engineers who are moving to China: Companies — and their engineers — are being drawn here more and more as China develops a high-tech economy that...
View ArticleChinese Supercomputer Is Ranked World’s Second-Fastest, Challenging U.S....
The New York Times reports: The Dawning Nebulae, based at the National Supercomputing Center in Shenzhen, China, has achieved a sustained computing speed of 1.27 petaflops — the equivalent of one...
View ArticleChina’s Tianhe-1A Takes Supercomputer Crown from US
China has another achievement to add to its growing list of superlatives: the world’s fastest supercomputer. From Wired Magazine: The supercomputer uses 7,168 NVIDIA Tesla M2050 GPUs (graphics...
View ArticleChasing Rare Earths, Foreign Companies Expand in China
China’s policy on rare earth minerals, used in the manufacturing of numerous high-tech goods including cell phones and hybrid cars, has been under scrutiny over the past year as the country holds a...
View ArticleChina Consolidates Grip on Rare Earths
The ongoing saga of China’s control over rare earth metals is impacting the cost of a number of high-tech goods that use the minerals in manufacturing, including environmentally-friendly compact...
View ArticleChina Aims for High-Tech Primacy
The New York Times looks at China’s efforts to become a leader in high-tech innovation: China already has almost twice the number of Internet users as in the United States, and Dr. Wu, a computer...
View ArticleChinese Supercomputer Poised to Take No. 1 Ranking
A new supercomputer based in Changsha is likely to be ranked the world’s fastest later this month, reclaiming a crown briefly held by China’s Tianhe-1A in 2010. The new system has exceeded 30 petaflops...
View ArticleChina Develops Urban Anti-Drone Lasers
Beijing has taken elaborate precautions against smog and terrorists ahead of its imminent APEC meeting, including a ban on Halloween costumes on the city’s subway. Xinhua reports the development of a...
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