Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation, one of China's largest semiconductor foundry, has announced the successful completion of its first 45-nanometer high performance yield lot.

After the U.S.-based National Labor Committee published a report critical of technology companies' operations in China, the Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition says it will now conduct an investigation.

The global financial crisis has hit Chinese PC maker Lenovo and it has announced that it will cut approximately 11% of its total global workforce, while the company expects to report a loss for the fiscal quarter that ended December 31, 2008.

Alisoft, the software subsidiary of the Chinese B2B e-commerce giant Alibaba, has announced that the company will initially invest over CNY100 million to set up a cloud computing center in Nanjing, Jiangsu and to invest more in the next few years to promote the e-commerce applications development of Chinese small and medium-sized enterprises.

IBM's first supply chain innovation center has opened in Beijing.

Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories, an Alcatel-Lucent company, and IBM announced a significant expansion of their global strategic alliance for contact center solutions to co-develop, implement and sell a new collaborative solution in China.