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3 developments involving SemiAnalysis in 3 countries and bodies. The most recent is DeepSeek and Huawei narrow AI chip gap with Nvidia, SemiAnalysis says, 21 Oct 2026.
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- DeepSeek and Huawei narrow AI chip gap with Nvidia, SemiAnalysis says
Kernels and compilers DeepSeek wrote for Nvidia chips now run on Huawei’s, the step a Chinese lab needs to train and serve frontier models without Nvidia hardware.
- ASML files hybrid bonding patents as Chinese firms adopt packaging technique
The filings suggest ASML is moving beyond lithography into back-end chip processes as demand for high-performance chips surges amid the global artificial intelligence boom.
- Only 3.6% of 857 Chinese model releases ever got a published safety result
Chinese labs publish open weights anyone can run, and this counts how rarely any safety result is published alongside them.