Latest Progress of Domestic AI Chips: Huawei Ascend Timeline Released, Alibaba and Baidu Accelerate Self-Development

Latest Progress of Domestic AI Chips: Huawei Ascend Timeline Released, Alibaba and Baidu Accelerate Self-Development

In response to global AI chip supply and policy changes, the self-sufficiency rate of domestic computing power chips has rapidly increased in recent years. Huawei has for the first time clearly disclosed the planning of the Ascend series AI chips, while Alibaba and Baidu are also accelerating the adoption of self-developed chips for training AI … Read more

Nvidia’s Latest Custom Chip RTX 6000D Faces Weak Demand, Domestic Manufacturers Invest in Self-Developed AI Chips

Nvidia's Latest Custom Chip RTX 6000D Faces Weak Demand, Domestic Manufacturers Invest in Self-Developed AI Chips

“ On September 16, according to Reuters, citing two informed sources, Nvidia’s latest AI chip RTX 6000D, tailored for the Chinese market, has seen a lukewarm market response since its launch, with major Chinese tech companies such as Alibaba, Tencent, and ByteDance currently choosing not to place orders. Nvidia’s spokesperson responded, stating: “The market competition … Read more

ARM Executives Respond to Xiaomi’s Self-Developed Chip

ARM Executives Respond to Xiaomi's Self-Developed Chip

Recently, at the Arm UNLOCKED summit held in Shanghai, Chris Bergey, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Arm’s Client Line of Business, along with James McNiven, Vice President of Product Management, made a clear response regarding the widely discussed Xiaomi 3nm self-developed chip, “Xuanjie O1”. In May 2025, Xiaomi’s first 3nm flagship SoC, Xuanjie … Read more

Arm Executive Responds to Controversy Over Xiaomi’s Self-Developed Chip!

Arm Executive Responds to Controversy Over Xiaomi's Self-Developed Chip!

Recently, at the Arm UNLOCKED summit, Arm officially launched the Arm Lumex Compute Subsystem (CSS) for mobile devices, which includes the new C1 series CPU cluster based on the Armv9.3 instruction set, as well as the Mali G1 GPU series that supports the next generation of ray tracing technology. In a media interview following the … Read more

Li Auto’s Self-Developed Chip M100: Successful Tape-Out Achieved Earlier This Year

Li Auto's Self-Developed Chip M100: Successful Tape-Out Achieved Earlier This Year

In the heated arms race of intelligent driving in 2025, Li Auto is quietly advancing its self-developed intelligent driving chip, codenamed M100, which outperforms the industry benchmark, NVIDIA Thor-U, in some performance metrics. In the first quarter of 2025, Li Auto’s self-developed intelligent driving chip M100 completed its sample return, entering a critical phase before … Read more

Xiaomi’s Most Powerful Chip! The Xuanjie O2 Sticks to TSMC’s 3nm Process: Launching Next Year

Xiaomi's Most Powerful Chip! The Xuanjie O2 Sticks to TSMC's 3nm Process: Launching Next Year

The blogger Digital Chat Station stated that Xiaomi’s next-generation Xuanjie chip is still manufactured based on the 3nm process technology, and there will be no iteration this year. It appears that the Xuanjie O2 will debut next year, possibly first launched with the Xiaomi 16S Pro, making it Xiaomi’s most powerful self-developed chip. Additionally, the … Read more

Li Auto’s Product Performance This Year: Successful Chip Development and Reducing Dependence on Nvidia

Li Auto's Product Performance This Year: Successful Chip Development and Reducing Dependence on Nvidia

Jessica from Vice Driver TempleSmart Car Reference | WeChat Official Account AI4Auto Li Auto’s latest financial report shows that while the data is not as impressive as before, there are key signals everywhere. In the second quarter, revenue decreased by 4.5% year-on-year, net profit growth hit the brakes, and even the delivery guidance for the … Read more

A Self-Developed Chip Unveils vivo’s Continuous Innovation

A Self-Developed Chip Unveils vivo's Continuous Innovation

In the future, vivo’s chip layout will mainly focus on four long-term tracks: design, imaging, system, and performance. After parking the car, Hu Baishan checked the time: 9:32. The drive from Dongguan along the Jiangyan Expressway to the interview venue in Shenzhen Baoan was smooth, arriving 28 minutes earlier than scheduled. As the Executive Vice … Read more

A Decade of Domestic Smartphones: The Turning Point for Self-Developed Chips

A Decade of Domestic Smartphones: The Turning Point for Self-Developed Chips

Image Source|Visual China Last year, OPPO recruited 2000 people to work on chips and launched its first self-developed NPU chip. In May of this year, OPPO made further moves by introducing the imaging-specific chip Mariana X into the mid-range Reno8 series. While it may seem like OPPO is over-engineering, industry insiders have a different perspective: … Read more

Apple’s Self-Developed Chips to Replace Qualcomm: A Three-Step Strategy Revealed

Apple's Self-Developed Chips to Replace Qualcomm: A Three-Step Strategy Revealed

In 2020, Apple successfully replaced Intel processors with its M-series self-developed chips, and this scenario is set to repeat in the mobile communications field. Recently, Apple journalist Mark Gurman revealed that Apple’s self-developed chips will replace Qualcomm, and the company has formulated a “three-step” strategy. The first step was taken with the iPhone 16e in … Read more