Cyberport may add some graphics processing units (GPUs) made in China to its Artificial Intelligence Supercomputing Centre in Hong Kong, as the government-run incubator seeks to reduce its reliance on Nvidia chips amid worsening China-US relations, its chief executive said.
Cyberport has bought four GPUs made by four different mainland Chinese chipmakers and has been testing them at its AI lab to gauge which ones to adopt in the expanding facilities, Rocky Cheng Chung-ngam said in an interview with the Post on Friday. The park has been weighing the use of Chinese GPUs since it first began installing Nvidia chips last year, he said.
“At that time, China-US relations were already quite strained, so relying solely on [Nvidia] was no longer an option,” Cheng said. “That is why we felt that for any new procurement, we should in any case include some from the mainland.”
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Cyberport’s AI supercomputing centre, established in December with its first phase offering 1,300 petaflops of computing power, will deliver another 1,700 petaflops by the end of this year, with all 3,000 petaflops currently relying on Nvidia’s H800 chips, he added.
Cyberport CEO Rocky Cheng Chung-ngam on September 12, 2025. Photo: Jonathan Wong alt=Cyberport CEO Rocky Cheng Chung-ngam on September 12, 2025. Photo: Jonathan Wong>
As all four Chinese solutions offer similar performance, Cyberport would take cost into account when determining which ones to order, according to Cheng, declining to name the suppliers.
Cyberport is currently building its phase 5 facilities, which will offer about 380,000 sq ft (35,300 square metres) of office area and an entire floor of up to 60,000 sq ft as a data centre. Two-thirds of the new data centre will be used for AI computing, while the rest will be used for traditional computing demands, Cheng said.
The technology incubator’s move to diversify its computing infrastructure came amid Hong Kong’s efforts to boost its AI development and reposition itself as an innovation hub as well as a bridgehead for Chinese tech powers to venture abroad.
The city was also planning to establish a new supercomputing centre at Sandy Ridge in the Northern Metropolis region to provide computing power support to companies in Hong Kong and other parts of the Greater Bay Area, as well as surrounding regions, Secretary of Innovation, Technology and Industry Sun Dong told the Post in June.
