United States President Donald Trump’s decision to conditionally approve exports of Nvidia’s advanced H200 artificial-intelligence semiconductors to China has drawn wide attention. But while the move reflects the eased bilateral trade tensions, two realities remain unchanged: China is an indispensable market for global AI-chipmakers, and Washington’s high-tech export controls on China remain firmly in place. China is one of the world’s largest and most competitive AI markets. For Nvidia — whose revenues were unavoidably hit this year after sales of its H20 chips to China were restricted by the US…
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The recent launch of a multirole satellite jointly developed by Chinese and Arab engineers has marked a “new milestone for the cooperation between the United Arab Emirates and China,” according to the Shanghai Engineering Center for Microsatellites. The Arab Satellite 813 was lifted into its preset orbital position on Wednesday by a Kinetica 1 carrier rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern China’s Gobi Desert. It carries a hyperspectral imager, a panchromatic imager, and an atmospheric polarimeter to obtain data for precise monitoring of vegetation, water bodies, and…