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hina Aerospace Science and Industry Corp. (CASIC), one of the nation's major space contractors, announced that it has launched research and development of a futuristic, ultrafast transport system popularly known as hyperloop, in Wuhan, capital of Hubei Province, on Wednesday.

The CASIC hyperloop will be a maglev (magnetic levitation) line on which a pod will travel on partly elevated tubes or tunnels at superfast speed reaching 1,000 km per hour.

The CASIC is the first Chinese enterprise and the world's third, following the US's Hyperloop Transportation Technologies and Hyperloop One, that has started developing a hyperloop system. The project will benefit from the company's rich experience and expertise in systems engineering and supersonic vehicles, said the CASIC.

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Hydrogen fuel cell passenger cars to be produced in Zhangjiakou to serve 2022 Winter Olympics
By Zhang Huan (People's Daily Online) 10:26, September 02, 2017

Hydrogen fuel cell passenger cars will be produced in Zhangjiakou City, Hebei province, to serve the 2022 Winter Olympics to be jointly hosted by the city with Beijing, as an automatic production line of hydrogen fuel cell engines recently went operation, Beijing Daily reported on Sept. 1.

The production base established with an investment of 1 billion RMB ($152 million) by Beijing SinoHytec Co., Ltd is projected to manufacture 10,000 vehicles a year after construction of all production lines is completed in 2018.

The hydrogen fuel cell vehicle, with a maximum range of 500 kilometers, can be started at even 30 degrees Celsius below zero, and can be stored at even lower temperatures, which means the vehicles are suitable for the winter weather in Zhangjiakou.

Li Jianqiu, a professor at Tsinghua University, noted that, compared with traditional vehicles that consumes 6 to 8 liters of gasoline every 100 kilometers at a cost of 40 to 50 RMB, the hydrogen fuel cell vehicle consumes only 1 kilogram of hydrogen at a cost of 30 RMB.

About 2.04 million diesel trucks in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region are believed to discharge some 6.48 million tons of pollutants each year, while the hydrogen fuel cell vehicles produce zero emissions and are thus environmentally friendly.

In addition, the hydrogen used as fuel for the vehicles can be discharged in a timely fashion, which ensures safety of the vehicles.

Zhangjiakou is advantageous for developing hydrogen energy as it has a demonstration zone of renewable energy and the world’s largest wind power hydrogen production. Producing hydrogen with wind power not only lowers costs, but makes efficient use of the surplus wind power of more than 10 billion kilowatts of the city on a yearly basis.

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Huawei launches its first A.I. mobile chip with Apple reportedly set to enter market

• The Kirin 970 is the size of a thumbnail and will support many of the AI capabilities that devices need today.
• Huawei is following other device manufacturers such as Google which released a new AI chip earlier this year.

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Huawei unveiled its first artificial intelligence (AI) chip for mobile devices on Saturday, pitting it against major players like NVIDIA,

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The Kirin 970 is the size of a thumbnail and will support many of the AI capabilities that devices need today, such as voice interaction and image recognition.

Huawei's chip supports on-device AI. That means the AI functions are processed on the smartphone rather than in the cloud, which could speed up processes.

Manufacturers are bringing increasingly complex features to devices such as augmented reality. These require new chipsets as they advance.

Huawei could see some advantages by making their own chips. Firstly, it allows the company to control the exact design of their smartphone which could help it differentiate in a very crowded market. The Chinese firm has been making a big push in the smartphone space and is now the third-largest player in the world by market share, just behind Apple, according to research group IDC.

And secondly, Huawei could potentially license this chip to other manufacturers, opening a new revenue stream.

"The ultimate goal is to provide a significantly better user experience. The Kirin 970 is the first in a series of new advances that will bring powerful AI features to our devices and take them beyond the competition," Richard Yu, CEO of Huawei's Consumer Business Group, said in a press release on Saturday.

Huawei is following other device manufacturers such as Google which released a new AI chip earlier this year, and Apple, which has a semiconductor of its own in the works, according to a Bloomberg report.

The Chinese tech giant is also coming up against major chip firms such as Qualcomm and Nvidia.

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