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Chinese AI chips fall short on coding, forcing firms to stretch scarce Nvidia supply

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Chinese AI companies are optimising software to cope with surging demand for inference, as part of that workload still relies on computing power from a limited pool of high-end chips amid restricted access to Nvidia processors. Compared with training an artificial intelligence model, which relies o…

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  1. 2026-08-20 12:30 · South China Morning Post Tech
    Chinese AI chips fall short on coding, forcing firms to stretch scarce Nvidia supply

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