China struggles to shift tech firms away from Nvidia chips

Huawei says its Ascend chips now outsell Nvidia in China, but the country's top AI labs still lean on Nvidia hardware for model training China wants its tech giants to run on homegrown silicon. Its top AI developers keep reaching for Nvidia anyway. That tension sits at the center of Beijing’s push for semiconductor self-sufficiency. US export controls have made the effort urgent, and the gap between selling chips and changing habits is proving wider than policymakers might like. Huawei, China’s leading domestic chip player, claims its Ascend AI chips have outsold Nvidia within China as of October 2026.

Source: Crypto Briefing