China’s AI compute surge heavily reliant on US chips, offshore cloud access: report
China’s access to artificial intelligence computing power will double next year, but US-designed chips will account for about 65 per cent of that capacity, an indication of its continued reliance on foreign hardware, according to new research. Total compute available to Chinese entities was expected to expand in 2027 from about 4.6 million to 8.8 million “H100-equivalents” – a metric benchmarked against Nvidia’s data-centre graphics processing units, according to a report by the Washington-based...
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China’s AI compute surge heavily reliant on US chips, offshore cloud access: report Why it matters: Policy is moving the AI stack right now, and this update helps explain what changed for builders. Source: South China Morning Post https://a2zai.ai/bytes/china-s-ai-compute-su...
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