US export controls have increasingly stopped GPUs with certain AI capabilities from getting into China, and just this week, Nvidia stated the US's ban of H20 chips into the country meant a 'multibillion-dollar write-off' for the tech company. Though these protectionist policies from the US are not keeping China from building its own GPUs, as a new China-made GPU has powered up.
Lisuan Technology, a Chinese startup, has been developing the "first self-developed architecture and fully independent intellectual property GPU chip", and it turned on this week. This was announced in a recent WeChat post, alongside additional guarantees to "carry out detailed and comprehensive software and hardware testing and driver optimization work."
