Tech war: Huawei’s AI chip road map bolsters China’s tech self-sufficiency efforts

Tech war: Huawei’s AI chip road map bolsters China’s tech self-sufficiency efforts

US-sanctioned Huawei’s disclosure “is educating the market about what’s ahead”, while signalling that the Shenzhen-based company “can match Nvidia’s multi-year road map”, said Kevin Xu, founder of US-based investment firm Interconnected Capital. Huawei deputy chairman Eric Xu Zhijun, who serves as the privately held company’s rotating chairman from April to September, unveiled the plans to…

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Tech war: DeepSeek’s V3.1 model emerges as ‘key pillar’ for China’s chip self-sufficiency

Tech war: DeepSeek’s V3.1 model emerges as ‘key pillar’ for China’s chip self-sufficiency

The Hangzhou-based start-up’s updated model, which supports an innovative data format called UE8M0 FP8, was “ushering in a booming domestic computing power chain”, Huatai Securities analysts said in a research note on Tuesday. That architecture showed that the synergy between mainland-designed software and chips would realise significant results, according to the report. FP8, known as…

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Tech war: which Chinese firm is supplying next-generation AI chips to DeepSeek?

Tech war: which Chinese firm is supplying next-generation AI chips to DeepSeek?

The Hangzhou-based start-up’s cryptic one-line post on WeChat triggered online discussions about which AI chip supplier, or suppliers, would unveil this breakthrough, even as US tech restrictions remain in place. DeepSeek’s post on Thursday said the “UE8M0 FP8 scale” of its V3.1 AI model was particularly designed “for home-grown chips to be released soon”. Apart…

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