{"id":437288,"date":"2026-04-16T01:54:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T01:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/437288\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T01:54:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T01:54:14","slug":"china-doubles-ai-for-science-computing-scale-in-2-months-using-no-us-chips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/437288\/","title":{"rendered":"China doubles \u2018AI for science\u2019 computing scale in 2 months using no US chips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s largest artificial intelligence computing cluster for scientific research entered operation on Tuesday, doubling its number of domestically made AI accelerator chips in just two months, according to state broadcaster <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/cctv?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CCTV<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The number of chips in the computing node reached 60,000 units, up from 30,000 when trial operations began in early February.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">With the upgrade, the Zhengzhou core node had become the country\u2019s most powerful scientific intelligent computing infrastructure, CCTV reported.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">CCTV said the development was \u201ca breakthrough for China in computing infrastructure for AI-driven scientific research, which will help the country seize the commanding heights of AI industrial applications\u201d.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Chinese researchers have long faced challenges in conducting \u201cAI for science\u201d research, including a shortage of computing power, software limitations and reliance on foreign suppliers for important tools, according to the official Beijing Daily.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China\u2019s largest artificial intelligence computing cluster for scientific research entered operation on Tuesday, doubling its number of domestically&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":437289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[261],"tags":[291,289,290,122099,18898,194139,381,4563,54447,18,194138,133353,19,122779,17,386,392,194137,155733,82,48954],"class_list":["post-437288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-beijing-daily","tag-cctv","tag-changping-laboratory","tag-china","tag-chinese-academy-of-sciences","tag-department-of-energy","tag-eire","tag-genesis-mission","tag-henan-province","tag-ie","tag-institute-of-computing-technology","tag-ireland","tag-japan","tag-netherlands","tag-onescience","tag-sugon","tag-technology","tag-zhengzhou"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116411895957028170","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437288","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=437288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}