China's AI sector pivots to system-level "super-nodes" as chip curbs bite at WAIC 2026
The largest World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) to date opened in Shanghai on July 17, and its dominant signal was strategic: China's answer to US limits on advanced chips is shifting from chasing single-chip performance toward lashing thousands of domestic processors together into system-level "super-nodes."
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