Nvidia's China Chip Boom Faces Threat As Beijing Pushes For Homegrown AI

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Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) has popularized the accelerators that China should ditch, a top government adviser warned, urging the country to develop domestic chips that enable artificial intelligence.

Wei Shaojun, a professor at Tsinghua University, a longtime advocate of domestically produced chips, told a forum in Singapore that Asian nations risk becoming dependent on U.S. general-purpose graphics processing units, which now power platforms from ChatGPT to DeepSeek.