A Chinese envoy took a veiled swipe during a UN session on technology at the US strategy of hi-tech restrictions, warning it could lead the world into an “abyss of confrontation”. Fu Cong, Beijing’s permanent representative at the United Nations, accused “individual countries” on Monday of attempting to “consolidate their own technology monopoly and contain…
Although NVIDIA’s H20 GPUs remain popular in China, the government’s subtle guidance to move towards local alternatives reflects its broader strategy to reduce dependence on foreign technology read more China is pushing its tech companies to prioritise domestically produced artificial intelligence (AI) chips over those from foreign suppliers like NVIDIA and AMD, in an effort…
China is aggressively advancing its artificial intelligence (AI) research and production, aiming to achieve greater autonomy in the China-U.S. tech competition through local AI chip design. This ambition makes Chinese AI chip firms prime targets for U.S. technology sanctions. However, China faces a significant challenge: its leading wafer manufacturer, Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC), can…