(Reuters) -China’s chipmakers are seeking to triple the country’s output of artificial intelligence chips in 2026, rushing to reduce dependence on Nvidia, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Huawei aims to begin production at a plant dedicated to making AI chips by year end, with two more facilities set to launch in 2026, the newspaper said citing people familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n
The plants are designed to specifically support Huawei, but their ownership remains unclear. Huawei told the FT that it did not have plans for its own plants.<\/p>\n
The combined output from the three potential plants could surpass the current production capacity of similar lines at China’s top chipmaker, Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC), the FT said.<\/p>\n
SMIC plans to next year double manufacturing capacity for 7 nanometre chips, for which Huawei is its largest customer, the report said.<\/p>\n
Huawei and SMIC did not immediately respond to Reuters requests for comment.<\/p>\n
Beijing is accelerating work on domestic AI chips, with companies developing processors that rival the performance of Nvidia’s China-special H20, about which the government has expressed security concerns.<\/p>\n
Reuters reported in November that Huawei planned to start mass-producing its most advanced AI chip in the first quarter of 2025 despite grappling with the impact of U.S. restrictions.<\/p>\n
(Reporting by Dheeraj Kumar and Gursimran Kaur in Bengaluru)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Reuters) -China’s chipmakers are seeking to triple the country’s output of artificial intelligence chips in 2026, rushing to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[261],"tags":[291,289,290,381,18,19,17,292,21652,21653,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-26397","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-china","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-nvidia","16":"tag-semiconductor-manufacturing-international-corporation","17":"tag-smic","18":"tag-technology"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}