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ck2 • today at 1:41 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

How long until China has its own chips?

It's a shame "AI" cannot be made to run on bitcoin mining dedicated hardware because they mastered that in only a few years


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ac29 • today at 2:09 PM

> How long until China has its own chips?

There are dozens of Chinese domestic AI accelerators: Huawei, Alibaba, and Baidu all have chips, there are a bunch of smaller startups too. The chinese mainland is behind on leading edge fabrication though, SMIC only does ~7nm class since they don't have EUV.

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jacquesm • today at 1:44 PM

Unless you were sarcastic: it absolutely can. Try finding a 170 for a reasonable price.

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