China solves 'century-old problem' with new analog chip that is 1,000 times faster than high-end Nvidia GPUs

The technician laying the CPU chip in the motherboard's socket.

Scientists in China have developed a new chip, with a twist: it's analog, meaning it performs calculations on its own physical circuits rather than via the binary 1s and 0s of standard digital processors.

What’s more, its creators say the new chip is capable of outperforming top-end graphics processing units (GPUs) from Nvidia and AMD by as much as 1,000 times.