As the chip equipment giant threatens to expand outside the Netherlands, Chinese social media users are quick to point their finger at US-led export curbs.
Robin Li Yanhong said his company’s Ernie model can produce better results when asked to write poetry following a Tang-era metre.
Nvidia’s warning to developers about running its CUDA software, a programming toolkit, on third-party graphic processing units has exposed another weak link in China’s quest for chip self-sufficiency.
The MiniMax deal would mark Alibaba’s second major artificial intelligence start-up investment this year after leading Moonshot AI’s US$1 billion funding round in February.
Huawei Technologies’ new Ascend 910B chip, already available on the mainland, is said to be on par in terms of computing power with Nvidia’s sought-after A100 graphics processing unit.
Robin Li Yanhong, co-founder, CEO and chairman, noted AI product Ernie Bot achieved ‘breakthroughs in monetisation’ in 2023.
Ticket sales during the Lunar New Year break rose more than 18 per cent compared to the holiday last year.
Analysts expect even more growth from chip designer Nvidia in 2024 as demand for its hardware remains strong amid AI boom.
US chip giant Nvidia said it has started shipping alternative GPU samples to Chinese customers as Washington’s restrictions on the export of advanced chips to China begin to take a toll on revenues.
SMIC and Huawei, two key players in Beijing’s efforts to defeat US sanctions on advanced chips, are among the country’s top recipients of local government funding this year.
Shanghai-based FoloToy is partnering with toymakers to upgrade traditional playthings with generative AI, creating interactive companions that can tell stories and hold natural conversations.
Alibaba’s lower-than-expected quarterly financial results come amid challenging economic conditions and growing competition from new entrants in the online shopping sector.
Chinese flash memory giant YMTC denied it has ties with the Chinese military, saying it is in talks with Washington to address the allegation after it was named on a US Defence Department blacklist.
Social network giant Meta Platforms has seen its China-related revenue grow steadily due to strong traction from mainland-based advertisers, as Chinese brands vie for consumers in foreign markets.
Nvidia’s new H20 chip set for direct competition with Huawei’s Ascend 910B, as AI competition heats up in China.
Loongson and Cambricon estimate deep losses for 2023 as analysts say strict US sanctions and limited product catalogues at Chinese firms are hindering domestic chip development.
China demand for chip tools has proven resilient despite intensified US sanctions that aimed to cut off the country’s access to advanced machines.
Analysts says Jensen Huang’s tip to the mainland is a goodwill gesture to an important market but unlikely to solve chip firm’s issues amid US-China geopolitical hostilities.
Rabbit Inc, started by Xian native Jesse Lyu Cheng, has sold out of five rounds of pre-orders for its R1 device since launching in Las Vegas this month.
China’s total output of integrated circuits in 2023 increased 6.9 per cent from a year earlier despite sluggish demand at one of its largest wafer foundries in the second half, according to data published on Wednesday.
With foreign semiconductor equipment manufacturers pulling out of China, local chip makers have rushed to find domestic alternatives.
Shanghai-based Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment said its core technology breakthroughs last year enabled the firm to deploy more chip-making gear to domestic semiconductor fabrication plants.
Data reflects rigid US export measures, under which China is unable to directly purchase advanced chips such as Nvidia’s H100 and A100 GPUs.
Nvidia reveals progress in China’s self-driving chip market, setting it up for competition with domestic players such as Huawei as country moves forward with autonomous driving.
China is expected to ‘work within those constraints and try to make progress’ by tapping into domestic AI accelerator programmes and being more economical in using computing resources.
China’s chip makers weathered a tough year that saw an escalation of US sanctions targeting chip making tools and AI processors, although a breakthrough by Huawei lifted industry spirits.
US moves to investigate American companies’ procurement of Chinese-made legacy node chips over national security concerns has triggered a backlash from the Chinese government.
China imported 16 lithography systems from the Netherlands last month for US$762.7 million, a massive year-on-year spike in spending on the critical tools.
Moore Threads, which was put on a US trade blacklist in October, has also introduced a new graphics card.
L&A Design, a Shenzhen-listed landscape designer, is just the latest non-tech Chinese company to tout its use of Nvidia GPUs.