# IoT
Latest news and articles about IoT
Total: 7 articles found
Huawei Declares Shift to a 'Full‑Chain' Ecosystem — Betting HarmonyOS to Link People, Cars and Homes
Huawei has declared its all‑scenario ecosystem has entered a “full‑chain” era, aiming to bind people, cars and homes into an integrated platform built on HarmonyOS. The move signals a strategic shift toward deeper partner integration and vertical coordination, with implications for competitors, automakers and data governance.
Midea’s MevoX Pushes Smart Homes from Remote Control to Cognitive Spaces
Midea unveiled MevoX, a self‑evolving home intelligence agent, and pledged over RMB 60 billion to AI and embodied intelligence over three years. The company is targeting two persistent technical gaps—reasoning (inference) and memory—to move smart homes from device control to proactive, context‑aware spaces, while signalling a strategic pivot from hardware sales to platform and service revenue.
Midea Doubles Down on AI: 600bn RMB More to Turn Every Appliance into an Intelligent Agent
Midea has committed another 600 billion yuan in R&D over the next three years as it shifts its appliance business toward AI. The company unveiled MevoX, a home intelligence agent, MIA 1.0 for unified device orchestration and an open-platform strategy to accelerate whole‑home intelligence and partnerships with car and phone makers.
Xiaomi Takes OpenClaw Mobile: Lei Jun Backs ‘Miclaw’ to Put AI Agents on Phones and Into the Home
Xiaomi has launched Xiaomi miclaw, a mobile AI agent built on its MiMo model and presented as China’s first phone-based implementation akin to OpenClaw. The move underscores a broader industry race to embed autonomous agents into phones and homes, promising convenience and ecosystem lock-in while raising fresh security and privacy challenges.
Transsion’s Rough Patch: Memory Shortages and Chinese Rivals Erode the ‘King of Africa’
Transsion Holdings reported sharply weaker 2025 results as surging memory prices and intensified competition from Chinese brands squeezed margins. The company still leads Africa but is losing momentum and must invest heavily and shift strategy to rebuild resilience.
China Accelerates 5G Buildout: 5G Base Stations Top 4.8 Million as RedCap Gains Traction
MIIT’s 2025 communications bulletin shows China reached 4.838 million 5G base stations by year-end, a net increase of 588,000, bringing 5G to 37.6% of all mobile base stations. Nearly 2.064 million 5G sites now support RedCap, indicating a strategic shift toward low-power, cost-effective IoT connectivity.
China’s Telecom Sector Shifts Gears: Slow Revenue Growth Masks Fast Build‑out of 5G, Cloud and Data‑Center Capacity
China’s telecom sector reported only 0.7% revenue growth in 2025 to ¥1.75 trillion, but underlying activity rose sharply: real telecom output grew 9.1% and investment in 5G, gigabit fibre, data centres and cloud services accelerated. The industry is shifting from legacy voice and SMS to cloud, IoT and industrial connectivity, with heavy capacity build‑out and rising R&D and standards influence.