{"id":4915,"date":"2025-08-17T12:48:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T12:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/4915\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T12:48:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T12:48:11","slug":"china-mandates-more-domestic-ai-chips-for-data-centres-to-cut-reliance-on-nvidia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/4915\/","title":{"rendered":"China mandates more domestic AI chips for data centres to cut reliance on Nvidia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">China is requiring its data centres to use more home-grown computing chips in a move that underscores Beijing\u2019s accelerated efforts to cut reliance on foreign technology as the US tightens export controls.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Publicly owned computing hubs across the country have been asked to source more than 50 per cent of their chips from domestic producers to support the indigenous semiconductor sector, according to people familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The mandate finds its origins in guidelines proposed in March last year by the Shanghai municipality, which was among the first in the country to stipulate that \u201cadoption of domestic computing and storage chips at the city\u2019s intelligent computing centres should be above 50 per cent by 2025\u201d.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The guidelines were part of a policy to strengthen artificial intelligence computing resources in China\u2019s financial hub. The plan was backed by government agencies including branches of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) in the city and the Shanghai Communications Administration, an agency under the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT).<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">One source, who works as an adviser in the data centre industry, said that earlier this year the Shanghai chip quotas for the city\u2019s intelligent computing centres had become mandatory nationwide policy.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The guidelines were part of a policy to strengthen AI computing resources in Shanghai. Photo: EPA\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/43e64ee8-5369-49f1-9695-be42ff46e390_741ac6ff.jpg\" title=\"The guidelines were part of a policy to strengthen AI computing resources in Shanghai. Photo: EPA\"\/>The guidelines were part of a policy to strengthen AI computing resources in Shanghai. Photo: EPA<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The MIIT and NDRC did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Saturday outside business hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China is requiring its data centres to use more home-grown computing chips in a move that underscores Beijing\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4916,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[261],"tags":[291,289,290,1793,381,5214,314,444,18,5218,19,5213,17,5215,5216,292,2792,82,107,5217,2709],"class_list":{"0":"post-4915","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-beijing","12":"tag-china","13":"tag-chinese","14":"tag-computing","15":"tag-data-centres","16":"tag-eire","17":"tag-huawei","18":"tag-ie","19":"tag-inner-mongolia","20":"tag-ireland","21":"tag-miit","22":"tag-national-development-and-reform-commission-ndrc","23":"tag-nvidia","24":"tag-shanghai","25":"tag-technology","26":"tag-us","27":"tag-us-sanctioned-iflytek","28":"tag-washington"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4915","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=4915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}