Intel wants a bigger bite of China's smartphone market.The US chipmaker has announced plans to invest up to Rmb9bn (about $1.5bn) for a minority stake in Tsinghua Unigroup, a government-affiliated private equity fund that controls Chinese chip designers Spreadtrum Communications and RDA Microelectronics.The US company plans to work with RDA and Spreadtrum to increase the use of its products inside made-in-China mobiles and tablets.This is the latest by Intel chief executive Brian Krzanich to get Intel chips into phones.

Huawei Technologies is designing the communications architecture for a new generation of “autonomous” cars which will be connected to the high-speed internet, according to Eric Xu, the company’s chief executive.The Chinese telecoms equipment maker hopes to have a series of technologies based on fifth-generation mobile networks commercially viable by 2020.The company, which rivals western telecoms equipment manufacturers led by Ericsson and Alcatel-Lucent, is allocating $600m in research and development spending for

Scientists have created an ultra-fast computer chip which is 20 times faster than current desktop computers.Modern PCs have a processor with two, four or sometimes 16 cores to carry out tasks. But the central processing unit (CPU) developed by the researchers effectively had 1,000 cores on a single chip.The developments could usher in a new age of high-speed computing in the next few years for home users frustrated with slow-running systems.Scientists used a chip called a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), which can

BEIJING, Nov. 9 (Xinhua) -- While China is known as the "world's factory," seemingly capable of making everything, semiconductor chips have been conspicuously absent on the "Made in China" list.Statistics show that China's chip imports in 2013 grew 20.5 percent to reach 231.3 billion U.S. dollars, exceeding imports of other goods, including crude oil. In fact, they have consistently topped China's import list over the past decade.Considered "the heart" of all electronic devices, chips are vital for developing the broader information industry.