Faced with the incident of ZTE being blocked by the United States, many manufacturers have taken into consideration the impact of the lack of U.S. chip supply. The chairman of the board of directors of Alibaba Group, Ma Yun, recently stated on one occasion that the company will join R&D for AI labor. The semiconductor chip used in the knowledge computing operation, but also said that China should have its own technology.
According to the "Nihon Keizai Shimbun" report, Ma Yun, chairman of the board of directors of Alibaba Group, delivered a speech at Waseda University in Japan the day before. He pointed out that 'Alibaba will join in the development of semiconductor chips used in AI artificial intelligence systems'. Ma Yun thinks that all types of objects are now To connect to the Internet, in the face of the accelerated growth of the IoT Internet of Things market, the need for semiconductors is growing. In this scene of speeches to Japanese university students, Ma Yun mentioned that 'China and Japan need to own (in their own country) their own technology', And encourage college students to participate in the research and development of AI technology.
The storm caused by the Chinese company ZTE selling communications equipment to Iran and other countries was punished by the U.S. Department of Commerce and could not buy chips made by U.S. manufacturers within 7 years. It is reported that 30% of ZTE chips currently rely on U.S. imports. Ma Yun pointed out: 'Publishing AI chips at this stage was totally unrelated to politics. It was purely accidental, but it means that the semiconductor chip market has been controlled by the United States, but when he does not sell it to us, what should he do?' 'Technology doesn't require people to control it, but it has to make it widely available so that more people can use it'.
