{"id":206,"date":"2024-04-13T18:53:28","date_gmt":"2024-04-13T18:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gmexconsulting.com\/cms\/?p=206"},"modified":"2024-04-13T19:06:00","modified_gmt":"2024-04-13T19:06:00","slug":"china-computer-chips-ai-photonic-chips-and-chip-factories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gmexconsulting.com\/cms\/china-computer-chips-ai-photonic-chips-and-chip-factories\/","title":{"rendered":"China, computer chips, AI, photonic chips and chip factories."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just some news from the last few weeks:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Chinese develop photonic chip for artificial intelligence at Tsinghua University in Beijing.<\/strong><\/br>The pursuit of artificial general intelligence (AGI) continuously demands higher computing performance. Despite the superior processing speed and efficiency of integrated photonic circuits, their capacity and scalability are restricted by unavoidable errors, such that only simple tasks and shallow models are realized. To support modern AGIs, we designed Taichi\u2014large-scale photonic chiplets based on an integrated diffractive-interference hybrid design and a general distributed computing architecture that has millions-of-neurons capability with 160\u2013tera-operations per second per watt (TOPS\/W) energy efficiency. Taichi experimentally achieved on-chip 1000-category\u2013level classification (testing at 91.89% accuracy in the 1623-category Omniglot dataset) and high-fidelity artificial intelligence\u2013generated content with up to two orders of magnitude of improvement in efficiency. Taichi paves the way for large-scale photonic computing and advanced tasks, further exploiting the flexibility and potential of photonics for modern AGI. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.adl1203\">Science.\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<p><\/br><\/p>\n<li><strong>China blocks use of Intel and AMD chips in government computers, FT reports<\/strong><\/br>China has introduced guidelines to phase out U.S. microprocessors from Intel and AMD\u00a0 from government personal computers and servers, the Financial Times reported on Sunday. The procurement guidance also seeks to sideline Microsoft&#8217;s Windows operating system and foreign-made database software in favour of domestic options, the report said. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/china\/china-blocks-use-intel-amd-chips-government-computers-ft-reports-2024-03-24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reuters\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<p><\/br><\/p>\n<li><strong> Huawei building vast chip equipment R&amp;D center in Shanghai<\/strong><\/br>Huawei Technologies is building a massive semiconductor equipment research and development center in Shanghai as the Chinese tech titan continues to beef up its chip supply chain to counter a U.S. crackdown.<\/li>\n<p><\/br>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-207 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gmexconsulting.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/huawei_shanghai_chips.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"686\" height=\"386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gmexconsulting.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/huawei_shanghai_chips.webp 1400w, https:\/\/www.gmexconsulting.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/huawei_shanghai_chips-300x169.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.gmexconsulting.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/huawei_shanghai_chips-1024x576.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.gmexconsulting.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/huawei_shanghai_chips-768x432.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.gmexconsulting.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/huawei_shanghai_chips-24x13.webp 24w, https:\/\/www.gmexconsulting.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/huawei_shanghai_chips-36x20.webp 36w, https:\/\/www.gmexconsulting.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/huawei_shanghai_chips-48x27.webp 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 686px) 100vw, 686px\" \/><br \/>\nHuawei is spending billions on a research and development base in Shanghai as part of efforts to counter a U.S. crackdown.<br \/>\n(Official WeChat account of\u00a0Qingpu District, Shanghai Municipality)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You can certainly interpret all this as a harbinger of the<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thucydides_Trap\"> Thucydides trap<\/a> or not. The fact is, China is a place where things happen. And you should consider whether you can afford not to be there. Talk <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gmexconsulting.com\/cms\/contact-us\/\">to us<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just some news from the last few weeks: Chinese develop photonic chip for artificial intelligence at Tsinghua University in Beijing.The pursuit of artificial general intelligence (AGI) continuously demands higher computing performance. Despite the superior processing speed and efficiency of integrated photonic circuits, their capacity and scalability are restricted by unavoidable errors, such that only simple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gmexconsulting.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gmexconsulting.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gmexconsulting.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmexconsulting.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmexconsulting.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmexconsulting.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmexconsulting.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions\/209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gmexconsulting.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmexconsulting.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gmexconsulting.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}