Huawei Leads Chinese Effort to Compete With Nvidia’s AI Chips

The project, backed by the Chinese government, aims at homegrown technology to blunt the impact of Western sanctions.

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Huawei Technologies is leading a group of Chinese semiconductor companies seeking memory chip breakthroughs that could help China develop home-grown alternatives to Nvidia’s cutting-edge artificial intelligence chips, which can’t be sold to the country.

The Huawei-led consortium, backed by funding from the Chinese government, aims to produce high-bandwidth memory chips—a crucial component in advanced graphic processing units—by 2026, according to two people close to the company.