On September 11th, as reported by Bloomberg, Wei Shaojun, who serves as the Chairman of the Integrated Circuit Design Branch of the China Semiconductor Industry Association and is a professor at Tsinghua University, made a significant statement at an industry forum held in Singapore. He argued that Asian nations, China included, ought to cease utilizing NVIDIA GPUs for artificial intelligence development. The purpose is to diminish their dependence on NVIDIA. He sounded a cautionary note, highlighting that Asian firms might find themselves hamstrung by U.S. technology as a result.

Wei Shaojun pointed out that when it comes to developing AI algorithms and large - scale models, Asian countries should steer clear of following the U.S. lead in relying on NVIDIA GPUs. Otherwise, they could be exposed to grave risks. He put forward a suggestion that China should concentrate on creating new types of chips specifically tailored for large - scale models, instead of depending on GPU architectures that were originally crafted for gaming and industrial graphics processing.

Although China's chip - manufacturing technology still lags behind the world's cutting - edge standards, the success of DeepSeek serves as a testament to the fact that Chinese companies are capable of enhancing artificial intelligence algorithms even without the most advanced AI chips. Moreover, even though NVIDIA's H20 chip has managed to regain export licenses to China, its security has come under scrutiny from Chinese authorities. Consequently, Chinese tech companies are still exercising caution when dealing with it.

Wei Shaojun underscored that China boasts both strength and ample financial resources in the endeavor to build its own chip industry.