Computing Network Build-Out Accelerates
Four national hub nodes approved and four more in the works, provincial plans from Henan to Yunnan, and a security white paper for the computing network itself.
96 Chinese Science Journals Now Rank in the World’s Top Quarter
Twenty-five journals rank in the top 5% of their fields, seven rank first, and three — including Cell Research — post impact factors above 20.
The Race to Mass-Produce Big-Compute Auto Chips
2022 is the year chips above 100 TOPS reach production cars. Nvidia and Qualcomm get there first; Chinese startups are a step behind on schedule and a step ahead on ambition.
Thirteen Challenges for Electronics and Information Engineering
The Chinese Academy of Engineering's annual list runs from 3nm process limits and 6G research to underwater acoustics and emergency-response data platforms.
Virtual Humans Arrive Before the Metaverse Does
Twenty financing deals and over RMB 2 billion in 2021; a market forecast at RMB 270 billion by 2030. The expensive part is not the face — it is 300,000 strands of hair and millisecond motion capture.
IPv6 Traffic Doubles in a Year
Mobile IPv6 traffic share rose from 17.21% to 35.15% in 2021, fixed from 4.3% to 9.38% — both doubling year on year and beating the plan.
Smart Customer Service Should Not Be the After-Sales Pain Point
Over 90% of consumers have used an automated support line; only about 40% found it useful. When 'answer off-topic' meets 'no human available', the brand pays for it.
The Cybersecurity Industry on the Fast Track
Market size reached about RMB 200 billion in 2021, up 15.8%. The gaps: no premium products, weak services, thin international business, and a fragmented field that needs consolidation.
AI Finds Its Everyday Moment
From zero-latency graphics at the Olympics to 5-second airport gates in Dubai, AI has moved from demos to daily life. The bottleneck now is compute — and cities are building it.
AI Moves Public Opinion Monitoring Beyond Keyword Search
With more than one billion netizens, opinion data now runs at hundreds of millions of items a day. AI-based monitoring replaces keyword search with multi-dimensional content recognition.
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