India, Dec. 1 -- There's a fascinating game of technological chess playing out in the semiconductor world. First it was the TPU vs GPU conversation, as it came to light that Meta will be spending a significant amount of money to buy Google's Tensor Processing Units for its AI deployments, that a direct competition to Nvidia's graphics processing unit or GPU approach that's more common in the AI space. Now, China just made a move that's either brilliant or at best optimistic, depending on how you look at it. A few days ago, at the ICC Global CEO Summit in Beijing, Wei Shaojun, who is vice chairman of the China Semiconductor Industry Association and a professor at Tsinghua University, claimed that Chinese engineers have designed an AI chip ...