520 TFLOPS at 14nm: China Self-Developed AI Chip Achieves Architectur…

China unveiled a self-developed AI chip achieving 520 TFLOPS at 14nm using software-defined and 3D near-memory computing architectures, demonstrating that architectural innovation can substitute for leading-edge process technology and bypass export controls on advanced foundries. If you sell memory, power delivery, or cooling to AI chip makers, China just proved it doesn't need the latest foundry nodes—only your subsystems at scale. That's a new customer base with a different supply chain calculus than NVIDIA's.