e4ds News Summary of ICT News from Greater China
Monday, July 19, 2021 [China Briefing]



Semiconductor Sector

"Making Chips," BAT Fully Enters the Market
"Making Chips" Baidu-Alibaba-Tencent Actively Recruiting Talent
◇ China's representative ICT enterprises Baidu-Alibaba-Tencent are all moving forward with manufacturing in-house chips for optimizing their own cloud services


TSMC: Automotive MCU Chip Production Capacity in First Half Increased 30% Year-over-Year, Optimistic on Outlook
TSMC Improves Automotive MCU Production Capacity by 30% in First Half
◇ TSMC makes all-out effort to increase MCU production, also investing in Japan
◇ From the third quarter, planning to produce Apple iPhone 13-dedicated 'A15 Bionic' AP with 5nm process, expecting increased revenue



Automotive Sector

450 Million Yuan Secured! "Leapmotors" Rushes Toward IPO: Dahua's Trillion-Yuan Market Cap Dream, Fu Liquan's Final Persistence
Dahua Subsidiary Leapmotors Secures 4.5 Billion Yuan Through Pre-IPO
◇ China's Dahua, the world's second-largest security company, is ramping up entry into the automotive industry
◇ Will directly manufacture automobiles... Secures approximately 800 billion won through IPO


China's Autonomous Vehicle Startup "White Rhino" Enters Retail Delivery, Secures Tens of Millions in US Dollar Investment
Chinese Autonomous Delivery Startup Raises $10 Million in Funding
◇ Chinese startup 'White Rhino' raises $10 million, approximately 10 billion won in funds for developing autonomous delivery vehicles



Telecommunications Sector

5G 700M Base Station Procurement Results Released, Huawei Becomes Biggest Winner with 60% Share
Huawei Achieves 60% Market Share in 5G 700MHz Base Station Market
◇ China's telecommunications carriers procure approximately 490,000 5G 700MHz base stations
◇ Majority are products from Chinese manufacturers including Huawei (60%), ZTE (30%)


Hebei Unicom Partners with Huawei to Establish "F5G Joint Innovation Center": Providing Gigabit Access Broadband
Hebei Unicom-Huawei Establish F5G Integrated Innovation Center
◇ Huawei launches full-scale operations in fixed gigabit 5G network business
◇ F5G joint innovation center kicks off efforts to lay groundwork for China's industrial 5G


Taiwan Telecom Invests in Vietnamese E-commerce Tiki to Counter Shopee, Taiwan Business Capital's Era of Going Global Has Arrived!
Taiwan Telecom Company Invests in Vietnamese E-commerce Company, Expands into Southeast Asia
◇ Taiwan Mobile plans to acquire Vietnamese e-commerce company
◇ Vietnam's Amazon 'Tiki' has 98 million users
◇ Tiki is raising capital from Taiwan and other sources for Southeast Asia market expansion



AI Sector

AITISA Jointly Establishes AI Frontier Innovation Award with Huawei and Pengcheng Lab
AITISA Establishes AI Innovation Award "Sponsored by Huawei-Pengcheng Lab"
◇ China's AI industry council AITISA announces establishment of AI innovation award
◇ Awards ceremony held in mid-August this year. China's AI industry development pace accelerating


AI Industry Financing Over the Past 10 Years Reached 30 Trillion, Which Enterprises Secured New Capital
China's AI Industry Received 3 Trillion Yuan in Investment Over the Past Decade
◇ China's AI received 3 trillion yuan over 10 years, approximately 530 trillion won in investment
◇ Jingzhiwei, Eva, UBiAi, SmartCore, ElephantSound, Robide and others attract market attention with recent major investments



Power Sector

Large-Scale Projects Commence Construction Sequentially, Photovoltaic and Other Energy Storage Industries Enter Fast-Track Development
China's ESS Industry Growing Amid Large-Scale Energy Storage Projects
◇ As China's 21 provinces consider establishing dedicated ESS complexes for solar and wind energy, related Chinese companies expect revenue growth