Blow to Nvidia? China accelerates AI independence, bans foreign chips in state projects
Beijing’s sweeping directive marks one of its boldest moves yet to eliminate foreign technology from critical infrastructure — a blow to Nvidia, and a boost for Huawei and China’s AI chip ecosystem. In a decisive escalation of its tech sovereignty ambitions, China has reportedly ordered that all state-funded data centre projects use only domestically-produced artificial intelligence (AI) chips. According to sources…