By Che Pan and Brenda Goh
BEIJING (Reuters) -China’s Baidu-backed semiconductor design firm Kunlunxin said it had won chip orders worth millions of yuan for AI projects of telecoms firm China Mobile, as authorities push for domestic alternatives to Nvidia.
Kunlunxin will supply artificial intelligence chips compatible with the CUDA ecosystem to firms such as H3C Technologies and telecoms equipment maker ZTE that are first-tier suppliers to China Mobile, it said in Thursday’s statement.
It did not give the specific value of the orders.
Tech giant Baidu owns 59% of Kunlunxin, Chinese corporate registry Qichacha shows.
In April, Baidu said it had successfully started running a cluster of 30,000 of its self-developed, third generation P800 Kunlun chips, which can support the training of models similar to DeepSeek.
($1=7.1848 Chinese yuan)
(Reporting by Che Pan and Brenda Goh; Editing by Clarence Fernandez)
