Now that AMD, Intel, and Nvidia cannot sell their top-of-the-range compute GPUs to customers in China without permission of the U.S. government, and Chinese developers of GPUs for artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing (HPC) applications do not have access to leading-edge production capabilities, smaller GPU designers have a chance to capitalize on various types of generative AI, reports DigiTimes.
The rise of the Chinese chip design sector in the recent years has formed two vectors of domestic GPU development: datacenter GPUs designed to address AI and HPC megatrends and classic GPUs designed primarily for client PCs yet capable of addressing some datacenter-specific workloads. It looks like the latter have better chances for success in the current situation.
