Month: March 2024

QNAP TS-216G is a 2-bay NAS with 2.5 GbE LAN and an NPU for image recognition

Network Attached Storage company QNAP has unveiled a system that it’s positioning as its cheapest dual-bay NAS with a 2.5 GbE port for high-speed data transfer over a local network. The new QNAP TS-216G is also likely to be the company’s c…

Network Attached Storage company QNAP has unveiled a system that it’s positioning as its cheapest dual-bay NAS with a 2.5 GbE port for high-speed data transfer over a local network. The new QNAP TS-216G is also likely to be the company’s cheapest dual-bay model with an integrated NPU (Neural Processing Unit) for hardware-accelerated AI features […]

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Is TikTok’s parent company an agent of the Chinese state?

Op-ed: In China Inc., it’s a little more complicated than that.

A stand of TikTok (Douyin) at The First International Artificial Products Expo Hangzhou on October 18, 2019, in Hangzhou, China.

Enlarge / A stand of TikTok (Douyin) at The First International Artificial Products Expo Hangzhou on October 18, 2019, in Hangzhou, China. (credit: Long Wei | VCG | Getty Images)

Does the Chinese government have officials inside TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, pulling the strings? And does the storing of data from the popular social media app outside of China protect Americans?

These questions appear to dominate the current thinking in the US over whether to ban TikTok if its owner, Chinese technology giant ByteDance, refuses to sell the platform.

But in my opinion—forged through 40 years as a scholar of China, its political economy, and business—both questions obscure a more interesting point. What’s more, they suggest a crucial misunderstanding of the relationship between state and private enterprise in China.

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Handelstreit mit China: EU will Risiko chinesischer Legacy-Chips untersuchen

Dumpingpreise chinesischer Anbieter etwa für Mikrocontroller könnten in Europa und den USA ganze Industrien bedrohen und die Abhängigkeit steigern. (Halbleiterfertigung, Politik)

Dumpingpreise chinesischer Anbieter etwa für Mikrocontroller könnten in Europa und den USA ganze Industrien bedrohen und die Abhängigkeit steigern. (Halbleiterfertigung, Politik)

Handelstreit mit China: EU will Risiko chinesischer Legacy-Chips untersuchen

Dumpingpreise chinesischer Anbieter etwa für Mikrocontroller könnten in Europa und den USA ganze Industrien bedrohen und die Abhängigkeit steigern. (Halbleiterfertigung, Politik)

Dumpingpreise chinesischer Anbieter etwa für Mikrocontroller könnten in Europa und den USA ganze Industrien bedrohen und die Abhängigkeit steigern. (Halbleiterfertigung, Politik)