Chinese giant Tencent announces domestic AI chip push — says it has fully adapted infrastructure to support homegrown silicon in blow to Nvidia

Tencent says it has “fully adapted” its AI computing infrastructure to support Chinese-designed processors, in a move that shifts one of the country’s biggest buyers of Nvidia chips closer to home-grown hardware, as reported by SCMP. The announcement came at the company’s Global Digital Ecosystem Summit on September 16, where Tencent Cloud president Qiu Yuepeng confirmed the firm is now using “mainstream domestic chips” and building infrastructure around them.

While Tencent stopped short of…