The CEO of Nvidia, Jensen Huang, said that China is “nanoseconds behind” the United States in chips [Getty Images]
The United States has dominated the global technology market for decades. But China wants to change that.
The second world economy pays huge sums of money on artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics. Above all, Beijing also invests strongly to produce high -end fleas that feed these advanced technologies.
Last month, Jensen Huang – the boss of the world leader in the flea industry AI, Nvidia – warned that China was only “nanoseconds behind” the United States in the development of flea.
So, can Beijing correspond to American technology and relax with high-end imported fleas?
Deepseek in China sent shock waves to the world of technology in 2024 when it was launched when it was launched An OpenAi Chatppt rival.
The announcement by a relatively unknown startup was impressive for a number of reasons, in particular because the company said that it was much cheaper to train than the management of AI models.
And the momentum in the Chinese technological sector continued. This year, some of the country’s major technological companies have clearly indicated that they aim to face NVIDIA and to become the main suppliers of advanced fleas for local businesses.
In September, Chinese state media said that a new chip announced by Alibaba can match Nvidia H20 semiconductors while using less energy. The H20 are reduced scale processors for the Chinese market under American export rules.
Huawei also revealed what he said to be his most powerful tokens of all time, as well as a three -year plan to challenge Nvidia’s domination in the AI market.
The Chinese technology giant also said that it would make its conceptions and computer programs available to the public in China in order to divert businesses from their dependence on American products.
Deepseek amazed the world of technology in 2024 when he launched an AI model for Rival Chatgpt [Getty Images]
Other developers of Chinese chips have also obtained major contracts with large companies in the country. Metax provides advanced fleas for tastes from the public telecommunications operator, China Unicom.
Cambconne technologies is another very at a point in a point.
Its shares listed by Shanghai have more than doubled in value in the past three months, investors, investors are betting that it will benefit from the Pusian’s thrust for Chinese companies to use high -end fleas produced locally.
Tencent, which has the super WeChat application, is another notable giant of technology that has taken into account the government’s call to use Chinese tokens.
There is also no shortage of salons supported by the state, promoting Chinese technological companies in order to attract investors.
“The competition has undeniably arrived,” a spokesperson for NVIDIA told BBC in response to questions on recent progress made by Chinese companies.
“Customers will choose the best technological battery to manage the most popular commercial applications in the world and open source models. We will continue to work to gain the confidence and support of consumer developers everywhere.”
However, some experts have warned that complaints made by Chinese chip manufacturers should be taken with a pinch of salt due to a lack of data accessible to the public and coherent test benchmarks.
China’s semiconductors behave in the same way as the United States in predictive AI but is not below complex analyzes, said computer scientist Jawad Haj-Yahya, who has tested American and Chinese chips.
“The gap is clear and it is surely shrinking. But I don’t think it is something they will catch up in the short term.”
On the Podcast BG2 Technology and Business in September, Jensen Huang de Nvidia underlined the strengths of the Chinese technological sector, crediting his working talent group and its vast talent, intense national competition and progress in the manufacture of Tamias.
“It is a dynamic, high-tech industry,” he said, urging the United States to compete “for its survival”.
Its evaluation should be welcomed by Beijing officials.
The country has long made it possible to become a world leader in technology, in part to reduce its dependence on the West.
For years, China has invested massively in what President Xi Jinping calls “high quality development”, which covers the renewable energy industries at AI.
Even before the return of US President Donald Trump to the White House, China had spent tens of billions of dollars as part of its efforts to transform its vast economy of “the global factory” for basic products into a advanced industries.
XI promised to make your country more autonomous and not to depend on “anyone’s gifts”.
Huang also warned that the United States should negotiate freely with China or risk giving it the advantage in the AI breed.
This happens in a context of Beijing applying more pressure on Nvidia when he launched an anti-monopoly probe on the company last month.
But the approach led by the state of China can also be an obstacle to innovation if everyone in the sector is only focused on a “shared objective,” said CHIA-LINS CHIA-LIN COMPUTER at the National University of Taiwan.
It can be more difficult for disruptive ideas to break the mold, she added.
Chinese chip industry has not yet overcome criticism that its products can be less user -friendly than those of Western rivals like Nvidia.
Professor Yang thinks that these problems can soon be resolved by the large number of workers in the qualified technological industry in China.
“You cannot underestimate China’s ability to catch up.”
The Chinese giant of Huawei technology has unveiled its plans to compete with the domination of Nvidia in AI chips [Getty Images]
She described recent China announcements in the flea sector as a “negotiation chip” in her several-month-old tariff negotiations with the United States.
Beijing aims to put pressure on Washington to sell its advanced equipment or risk losing its position on such a large market, said Dr. Jawad.
These announcements project strength from China, even if she still wanted to buy American technology, he added.
Most experts agree that China still depends on the United States for the most powerful fleas, at least for the moment.
Beijing needs access to high-end American technology for its more advanced projects and to ensure that it is not left behind, said semiconductor engineer Raghavendra Anjanappa.
In a realistic way, China can reduce its dependence on American chips in less advanced tools, but does not have the “raw performance” of American fleas to form more complex AI systems, said Raghavendra.
Despite a certain number of breakthroughs, China still does not have the very developed supply chains that have been established for a long time in the United States, South Korea and Taiwan.
