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In order to compete with NVIDIA, China set a standard for the project: China offers 20 times more efficient chip than Nvidia M40 in terms of performance or energy efficiency, and is called Neural Network Accelerator. Currently, Nvidia M40 chip development time of only 2 years, not the latest and most powerful chip, but still for the AI project.
China had already planned to compete with NVIDIA earlier in October. When NDRC solicited research plans in October, it proposed a requirement for developing high-performance AI chips. In August, China National Development and Investment Corporation's investment fund took the lead in initiating Beijing AI chip Cambricon, which has invested $ 100 million (about 664 million yuan), said in early November Cambricon announced the launch of two server chips that would replace the NVIDIA chips used in some AI projects if it were to live up to expectations.
China has been struggling to compete in the chip industry with the United States, South Korea and Japan for years, and has introduced chips for world-class supercomputers to replace Intel and other chips in the United States, but has not yet developed chips that are widely used in servers and PC chip at present, although China has shown its intention to compete for the AI chip market, but China's AI chip company has not yet on the NVIDIA core server market stormed.