Two high-profile failures — a luxury Huawei-JAC sedan's brake bracket snapping in tests and a Chery SUV's rear axle tearing off in Malaysia — have overseas buyers asking whether Chinese cars are rushed to market.
Apple has opened pre-orders for the iPhone Duo, its first foldable phone, priced from 15,999 yuan. The company's own repair estimates show an inner-screen fix costs nearly half the phone's price.
A Chinese science writer asks why younger internet users have never heard of classic PC viruses like Panda Burning Incense, and explains what changed in how computers and software are built.
Three Maextro V800 luxury sedans suffered identical brake pedal bracket failures in a 100 km/h emergency-stop test. Owner clubs call it a safety defect; the brand frames the fix as a free upgrade, not a recall.
Avatr unveiled its T09 concept SUV in Paris, a flagship with four lidar sensors co-designed with Huawei. The production version is planned for 2026, with an estimated price above 500,000 yuan.
A media outlet's emergency braking test broke the brake pedal bracket on three brand-new Maextro V800 luxury cars. The videos went viral, splitting opinion between those calling it a fatal design flaw and those calling the test unfair.
A testing video of a luxury Huawei-backed MPV sent shares in its partner JAC tumbling, sparking a debate about how car reviews move markets. The episode shows how quickly amateur testing can shake a brand in China.
China's biggest tech companies are racing to make AI assistants the default gateway on smartphones, each with a different strategy. The winner may decide how billions of people search, shop and pay.
A widely watched test of the Maextro V800, a million-yuan luxury car from Huawei and JAC, showed brake pedal brackets cracking in three straight runs. The testers say it was ordinary highway braking; the brand disagrees.
In China's smart EV era, one vehicle is increasingly assembled by many partners — automakers, chip designers, software teams, data platforms, dealers and service networks. A new look at the AITO partnership asks what actually makes a brand grow when no single company builds the whole car.
During China's National Day holiday, Beijing mall showrooms for electric cars drew thin crowds and few special offers, while online launch perks did the persuading. Dealers say the old autumn buying rush no longer works the way it used to.
Huawei and Qualcomm have signed a multi-year patent licensing deal covering 5G, computing, AI and networking, with Qualcomm buying some Huawei US patents. The agreement reframes a quarter-century relationship that began with Huawei paying royalties.
At a September industry forum, Chinese car executives stopped repeating optimistic slogans and admitted real problems: rushed development cycles, oversized batteries, and uneasy reliance on rivals' technology. The candor signals a market shifting from growth-at-any-cost to hard choices.
Chinese reviewers at Geekerwan say Huawei's new Kirin 9050 Pro chip, exclusive to the Mate 90 Pro Max, outperforms Qualcomm's fifth-generation Snapdragon 8 Elite in several heavy gaming scenes, signaling steady progress for Huawei's in-house silicon.
Huawei's car communications team drove the 561-km Duku Highway and found strong signal on 98.7% of the route. The test shows how satellite links are becoming a selling point for Chinese smart cars.
Chinese automakers are increasingly building their own batteries or signing with second-tier suppliers, loosening CATL's grip on the world's largest EV market. The shift is reshaping who keeps the profits in electric cars.
September brought no broad recovery to China's car market, but the biggest automakers kept growing anyway. Competition is shifting from chasing new buyers to fighting over existing ones.
China's electric-vehicle startups posted a mixed September, with Leapmotor holding first place while Xpeng and Xiaomi pushed past 40,000 deliveries and Huawei-backed Aito slipped. The month shows growth is no longer lifting every brand equally.
Nvidia has launched a 64GB version of its DGX Spark desktop AI computer at $4,999, with Chinese manufacturers including H3C among the first to build machines on it. The small box brings data-center-class AI training to a desk.
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is reportedly reworking its models to run on Huawei's Ascend chips instead of Nvidia hardware. It is less a technical patch than a full relocation of its computing base.
Huawei and Seres signed a new five-year deal in Shenzhen to upgrade their Aito electric vehicle brand, which now has more than 1.2 million users. The partnership deepens their bet on premium smart cars in China's crowded EV market.
Huawei unveiled its Mate 90 series on October 1, its first flagship to go on sale the same day it launched, with prices starting at 5,999 yuan. Executive Richard Yu called the pricing "sincere" amid soaring memory chip costs.
A senior Huawei executive argues that carmakers may spend more developing their own smart driving systems than buying them, urging stronger division of labor between automakers and suppliers.
JAC Motors told investors it is in early, non-binding talks with Huawei and Stellantis after its shares jumped over 20% in three days. No deal terms have been set, and the company warned the outcome remains highly uncertain.
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