NVIDIA’s GPU Software Makes Chinese Efforts To Switch To Domestic AI Chip Use Full Of Headaches, Says Report

OSTN Staff

Chinese AI data centers are finding it difficult to make the switch from NVIDIA’s AI GPUs to Huawei’s products due to software constraints, reports the South China Morning Post. The report outlines that the Chinese government has mandated all publicly funded AI data centers to use at least 50% domestic chips in order to reduce reliance on foreign chips. The chip mandate stemmed from the Shanghai municipality’s guidelines last year, which required the city’s computing centers to use 50% domestic chips, and these quotas were made mandatory nationwide across China this year, according to the SCMP’s sources. Chinese Data Centers […]

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