China-made Chips

The MLU 290 smart chip is Cambricon's first training chip, using TSMC's 7nm process, integrating 46 billion transistors. It supports AI training, inference, or hybrid AI compute acceleration tasks.

The mask aligner manufacturing giant ASML is present at the ongoing 3rd China Import Expo, and is exhibiting the DUV mask aligner at its own booth, Chinese media reported.

A Huawei executive mentioned having invested $20 billion in chips and related areas, Aicaijing.com quoted a partner who visited Huawei recently as saying.

At the 18th China International Semiconductor Expo on October 14, Lv Huijun, deputy general manager of the Nanjing Integrated Circuit Industry Service Center (ICisC), said that the establishment of Nanjing Integrated Circuit University is almost certain.

Baidu's cloud-based universal AI chip Baidu Kunlun, developed by Baidu, is already in use on Baidu's own search engine, which is handling a large number of requests on searches every day, Baidu vice president Wu Tian said on October 14.

To date, Loongson Technology has more than 1,000 eco-partners, the Chinese chip maker said, adding that he Loongson Adaptation Alliance, which was set up in July this year, has attracted more than 50 tech giants.

Unisoc, China-based supplier of mobile communications chipsets and IoT chipsets, announced on October 10 the Tiger T710 development board, an octa-core high-performance artificial intelligence motherboard powered by Unisoc AI processor Tiger T710.

The developer team of the Ubuntu Kylin open source operating system announced on October 9 that UKUI for openEuler is now available.

A year ago, Alibaba unveiled its first AI chip, the Hanguang 800, the most powerful AI reasoning chip at the time. The company recently shared an update on the Hanguang 800's progress nearly a year after its launch.

Qualcomm still led the global smartphone application processor (AP) market in the second quarter, but lost share to Huawei, according to a recent Counterpoint report.