{"id":609721,"date":"2026-04-16T02:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T02:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/609721\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T02:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T02:05:08","slug":"china-doubles-ai-for-science-computing-scale-in-2-months-using-no-us-chips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/609721\/","title":{"rendered":"China doubles \u2018AI for science\u2019 computing scale in 2 months using no US chips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s largest artificial intelligence computing cluster for scientific research entered operation on Tuesday, doubling its number of domestically made AI accelerator chips in just two months, according to state broadcaster <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/cctv?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CCTV<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The number of chips in the computing node reached 60,000 units, up from 30,000 when trial operations began in early February.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">With the upgrade, the Zhengzhou core node had become the country\u2019s most powerful scientific intelligent computing infrastructure, CCTV reported.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">CCTV said the development was \u201ca breakthrough for China in computing infrastructure for AI-driven scientific research, which will help the country seize the commanding heights of AI industrial applications\u201d.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Chinese researchers have long faced challenges in conducting \u201cAI for science\u201d research, including a shortage of computing power, software limitations and reliance on foreign suppliers for important tools, according to the official Beijing Daily.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China\u2019s largest artificial intelligence computing cluster for scientific research entered operation on Tuesday, doubling its number of domestically&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":609722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,296387,37958,296390,512,5225,19133,296388,296391,190617,941,16255,296386,296389,105,33467],"class_list":{"0":"post-609721","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-beijing-daily","14":"tag-cctv","15":"tag-changping-laboratory","16":"tag-china","17":"tag-chinese-academy-of-sciences","18":"tag-department-of-energy","19":"tag-genesis-mission","20":"tag-henan-province","21":"tag-institute-of-computing-technology","22":"tag-japan","23":"tag-netherlands","24":"tag-onescience","25":"tag-sugon","26":"tag-technology","27":"tag-zhengzhou"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}