Apple’s recently launched iPhone 17 series has garnered significant global attention, with Chinese media focusing on the comparison between China and India in the company’s supply chain. Reports highlight that despite India’s growing involvement, China remains an indispensable part of Apple’s manufacturing and supply network.

Despite ongoing US sanctions that constrain its smartphone sales overseas, Huawei said it has held the No. 1 position in global wearable device shipments for two straight quarters.

Ever since Academia Sinica announced a 5-qubit superconducting quantum computer in January 2024, and National Tsing Hua University unveiled a photonic quantum computer capable of integer factorization using just one photon in October 2024, Taiwan has seen no major breakthroughs in quantum computing research. in addition, no clear results have been obtained from the quantum computer purchased from the Finnish company IQM, and National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) officials have stated that they will soon conduct an on-site inspection of the IQM Spark in Taiwan.

Wei Shaojun, vice chairman of the China Semiconductor Industry Association and professor at Tsinghua University, has called on Asian nations, particularly China, to cut their reliance on Nvidia GPUs for training and deploying artificial intelligence (AI) models. Speaking at a forum in Singapore, he urged countries to accelerate the development of homegrown AI chips.