Top China silicon figure calls on country to stop using Nvidia GPUs for AI — says current AI development model could become ‘lethal’ if not addressed

Wei Shaojun, vice president of China Semiconductor Industry Association, and a senior Chinese academic and government adviser, has called on China and other Asian countries to ditch using Nvidia GPUs for AI training and inference. At a forum in Singapore, he warned that reliance on U.S.-origin hardware poses long-term risks for China and its regional peers, reports Bloomberg. 

Wei criticized the current AI development model across Asia, which closely mirrors the American path of using compute GPUs from…