Tencent says it has “fully adapted” its AI computing infrastructure to support Chinese-designed processors, in a move that shifts one of the country’s biggest buyers of Nvidia chips closer to home-grown hardware, as reported by SCMP. The announcement came at the company’s Global Digital Ecosystem Summit on September 16, where Tencent Cloud president Qiu Yuepeng confirmed the firm is now using “mainstream domestic chips” and building infrastructure around them.
While Tencent stopped short of naming the specific silicon in use, the phrasing suggests that production deployments are involved, not just experimentation. Senior executive vice-president Dowson Tong Tao-sang added that the company is working with “multiple domestic chip companies” to apply “the most suitable hardware” to each scenario, and that long-term strategic investment will focus on optimizing hardware-software co-design to lower the cost of compute.
