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Chinese startup Cambricon Technologies challenges Nvidia’s dominance in AI chip market

  • China
  • 3 min read
  • Dec 03, 2018
  • By Irene Wang

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This ambitious AI chip maker takes aim at the future with a series of world-class products

US technology company Nvidia, valued at over US$100 billion, currently enjoys a formidable lead in the global AI chip race. But a rising Chinese startup, Cambricon Technologies, is hot on its tail.
Cambricon Technologies co-founder Chen Yunji has said that the company aims to improve AI chip computing efficiency by 10,000 times and reduce chip power consumption 10,000-fold. Founder and CEO Chen Tianshi said in a speech that the company would corner 30% of China’s high-performance AI chip market and embed one billion devices worldwide with its chips within three years. The seemingly w...

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Edited by Wendy Lovinger , Wang Xiao'e

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