India, Dec. 12 -- Under tightening U.S. export restrictions, China is turning to innovative chip architectures to bolster computing capabilities. According to South China Morning Post, this strategy-pairing mature-node chips with novel system designs-aims to narrow the performance gap with NVIDIA.

South China Morning Post cites Wei Shaojun, VP of the China Semiconductor Industry Association, who argues that 14nm logic chips, when combined with high-performance memory and an advanced computing architecture, could approach the capabilities of NVIDIA's 4nm AI-training processors. He further emphasizes that his proposed framework is built on a "fully home-grown supply chain."

Wei's approach centers on "software-defined near-memory computing...