Tag: Chinas
Investors bank on China’s alternatives to Nvidia’s auto chips • TechCrunch
In China, a crop of homegrown chip companies has popped up as Beijing strives to decouple from America’s advanced technology and manage sanctions risks, which have crippled Huawei’s lucrative smartphone business. In the red-hot space of autonomous driving, Chinese semiconductor firms, buoyed with venture capital, are aiming to provide the best alternatives to Nvidia and
LDV Maxus Territory: China’s Ford Everest rival gets mild-hybrid diesel
China’s LDV, branded Maxus outside Australia, has revealed a potential cut-price competitor to the Ford Everest, Toyota Prado, and Isuzu MU-X – using a domestic market nameplate with relevance to Australia. The body-on-frame Maxus Territory (Lingdi) is being sold at home alongside the older Maxus D90 – which itself is sold locally as the LDV
China’s U.S. ambassador: Don’t cut China out of EV chain
China’s ambassador to the U.S. warned against the potential risks of trying to cut the country off, using a visit to the Detroit auto show to highlight the “intertwined” interests of the world’s two biggest economies. “To decouple with China means to disconnect from the world’s largest market as well as the biggest opportunity,” Qin
Real driverless cars are now legal in Shenzhen, China’s tech hub
There are plenty of autonomous driving vehicles testing on the roads of Shenzhen today: Pony.ai, Baidu, DeepRoute, AutoX, you name it. But these vehicles are not really the unmanned vehicles that tech upstarts envision for the future, as they have been required to operate with a safety driver behind the wheel. A set of provisions