Tencent pushes adoption of Chinese AI chips as mainland cuts reliance on Nvidia

Sep 16, 2025

Tencent Holdings, which runs the world’s largest video gaming business by revenue and China’s biggest social media platform WeChat, has become the latest mainland technology company to push the adoption of locally designed artificial intelligence (AI) chips, as the country cuts the use of imported semiconductors such as those from Nvidia. The Shenzhen-based tech conglomerate’s cloud computing unit, Tencent Cloud, said it was supporting “mainstream domestic chips” in its AI computing...

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