August
Intel plans 15,000 job cuts after AI fumble
The US chipmaker said it will also reduce capital spending as its turnaround strategy hits another setback.
- Ian King
You can get iPhones much cheaper in China, but they still sell better here
As the tech industry obsesses about new AI features, sales of iPhones are still the core of Apple’s earnings reports.
- Max A. Cherney and Aditya Soni
July
Australia doubles down on its subsea cable diplomacy in South Pacific
The rollout of undersea cables has become a major focus of the strategic competition between Western nations and China to gain influence in the Pacific.
- Updated
- Staff
Santos takeover talks; What will Keir Starmer do?; Trophy home record
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America’s campaign to kill Huawei has failed
After international sanctions drove profits down 70 per cent, the Chinese telecommunications company learnt that it didn’t need to rely on the West.
- The Economist
May
Apple’s shares rally after return to sales growth forecast
The tech giant announced $US110 billion in share buybacks and raised the quarterly dividend by 4 per cent.
- Updated
- Mark Gurman
April
Why Apple has a $US300b ‘Made in China’ problem
Apple is gradually weaning itself off China as a longstanding and mutually-beneficial relationship between the corporate giant and the country begins to fray.
- James Titcomb
Tesla clears key regulatory hurdles for self-driving in China
CEO Elon Musk’s surprise visit to the US vehicle maker’s second-largest market appears to have paid off.
- Daniel Leussink and Liam Mo
- Opinion
- China relations
America and its self-defeating Sinophobes
Excessive fear of Chinese competition is blinding Americans to the real weaknesses in their economy that need to be addressed.
- Stephen Roach
March
Beijing blocks use of Intel and AMD chips in government computers
The stricter government procurement guidance also seeks to sideline Microsoft’s Windows operating system and foreign-made database software in favour of domestic options.
- Ryan McMorrow, Nian Liu and Qianer Liu
Inside the battle to ban TikTok’s rising influence
US Congress has taken a first step to forcing the app’s Chinese owner to sell it off. Can the company fight back?
- Updated
- Demetri Sevastopulo, James Fontanella-Khan and Tabby Kinde
China shuns Tesla, Apple as US tensions rise
Delegates at the annual Communist Party meeting spurned iPhones for homegrown handsets, saying US company Apple was “not safe”.
- Ryan McMorrow, Nian Liu, Gloria Li and Michael Acton
February
- Opinion
- International affairs
What’s Plan B if America never goes back to normal?
Paul Keating has once again asked whether the US alliance shapes Australia’s view of the world more than it should.
- Bec Strating
China defies US curbs with next-level chip production
China’s SMIC and Huawei plan to make new five-nanometre chips, supporting Beijing’s goal for advanced semiconductors.
- Qianer Liu
January
- Opinion
- China relations
Only the hawks are unhappy as China relations stabilise
If Anthony Albanese’s pursuit of more stable relations with China is misguided, it’s odd that Joe Biden is doing the same.
- James Laurenceson
November 2023
China claims world’s fastest web with 1.2 terabits-a-second network
Huawei and China Mobile have built a 3000 kilometre internet system that they say is several times faster than typical speeds around the world.
- Bloomberg News
- Analysis
- The Breakdown
As Albanese travels to China, Apple’s results offer a warning
The company has navigated China better than any other Western big tech firm, but its sales there still fell short of expectations last quarter.
- Nick Bonyhady
September 2023
Apple grapples with turmoil in China days before iPhone 15 launch
The tech titan is contending with a growing ban on iPhone use among government workers, and a contentious new phone from China’s Huawei Technologies is providing homegrown competition.
- Mark Gurman
China’s ban on Apple: what analysts are saying
Several analysts rush to Apple’s defence; one hedge fund manager flips to betting the stock is poised for more losses.
- Timothy Moore
August 2023
HSBC executive slams ‘weak’ UK for siding with US against China
The bank’s head of public affairs Sherard Cowper-Coles says the UK often bows to Washington’s demands but shouldn’t blindly follow the US.
- Ambereen Choudhury, Alberto Nardelli and Harry Wilson