Big tech firms like Tencent and even smaller and upcoming Chinese AI players are accelerating chip product launches and organising more marketing visits

The Southeast Asian nation is looking to move beyond manufacturing and assembly amid trade tensions between the US and China

News of the delay follows analysts concerns around Nvidia’s plan to introduce three new chips for China, as developing new chips can be highly resource-intensive

Tencent is the second large Chinese technology company to look for domestic alternatives to Nvidia amid tightening US sanctions

Chinese tech firms have historically relied on sector leader Nvidia but Washington’s tech curbs have prompted a shift away from the US firm

Chinese tech giants, including Alibaba, ByteDance and Baidu, had placed orders worth billions for 2024 and Nvidia had planned to deliver some of them by mid-November

In a filing to the SEC, Nvidia noted five chips that will be impacted as the rules go into effect: the A100, A800, H100, H800, and L40S

Foxconn boss Liu Young-way said the new cutting-edge data centres could be used to help self-driving cars learn

The chief of one of the world’s biggest chip equipment-makers, ASML, said isolating China completely will ‘force’ the country to ramp up innovation

Foxconn founder Terry Gou, who’s running in Taiwan's presidential election, said Beijing won’t be able to influence him despite his business links in China

The new Arizona chip factory is due to be up and running by next year and a second fab making the most advanced chips set to start production in 2026

Fresh export control rules being considered by the US will prohibit Nvidia from selling to China even those chips it specifically designed to meet earlier limits