Nvidia’s future challenger? Chinese start-up reveals aggressive AI chip road map
As US sanctions block access to advanced lithography, a Shanghai-based firm bets on chip redesign, 3D memory stacking to break bottlenecks
The Shanghai-based firm announced on Monday that its strategy was built on software-defined computing and 3D-stacked near-memory architecture, which it said could reduce reliance on the advanced manufacturing processes and cutting-edge memory currently restricted by Washington.
“We have to forge a path of our own,” founder Wei Shaojun said at the launch event.
“That path cannot be about passively catching up within a framework set by others. We need independent architecture, original technology, a self-sustaining ecosystem and a secure, controllable supply chain.”
To that end, Dongfang Suanxin – or Shanghai Oriental Computing Technology – aims to circumvent traditional hardware constraints by changing how chips process data.
Software-defined computing reconfigures a chip’s computing and data-flow resources on the fly, tailoring the hardware to different workloads.