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FRIDAY, JUNE 13, 2025
ByteDance team to develop AI chips as China aims for self-reliance

Global Economy

Reuters
16 March, 2021, 02:10 pm
Last modified: 16 March, 2021, 02:20 pm

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ByteDance team to develop AI chips as China aims for self-reliance

ByteDance has posted a dozen semiconductor-related job advertisements on its official website and has established a team to explore the development of artificial intelligence chips

Reuters
16 March, 2021, 02:10 pm
Last modified: 16 March, 2021, 02:20 pm
Photo: Reuters
Photo: Reuters

Chinese TikTok-owner ByteDance is making plans to develop semiconductors, according to the company's job postings and a source familiar with the situation.

The plan is still at an early stage and the company's focus is on Arm-based server-side chips, the person told Reuters.

Beijing-based ByteDance has posted a dozen semiconductor-related job advertisements on its official website, based mainly in Beijing and Shanghai.

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The company has established a team to explore the development of artificial intelligence chips, ByteDance told Chinese business magazine Caijing.

ByteDance did not offer immediate comment when contacted by Reuters.

Chinese technology giants are stepping up efforts to design their own chips in a sign of China's ambitions to reduce its dependence on foreign producers such as Qualcomm Inc and Nvidia Corp.

US sanctions imposed on hardware maker Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd have prevented the Chinese telecom giant from sourcing components including semiconductors, crippling its smartphone business.

China is the world's largest purchaser of semiconductors but its ability to produce chips domestically lags behind the United States, Japan and South Korea.

According to research firm ICInsights, of the $143 billion in chips sold in China in 2020, only $22.7 billion worth were produced in China, and only $8.3 billion was produced by Chinese-headquartered companies.

Chinese search engine giant Baidu has completed a round of financing for its Kunlun AI chip unit, which values the unit at around $2 billion, Reuters reported on Monday

Baidu is also considering making the unit a standalone company to commercialise its chip design capabilities.

Alibaba Group, China's e-commerce giant, unveiled an AI chip for its cloud computing products in late 2019.

China's AI unicorn SenseTime started work on developing homegrown AI chips after being added to a US trade list by Washington in 2019, Reuters has reported.

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