Beijing ramps up computing power to boost 'token economy' in tech race with US

Beijing is adding 50,000 petaflops of AI computing capacity in H2 2026 to reach 130,000 petaflops by year-end, whilst backing an open-source RISC-V + AI OS stack to reduce dependence on Western chip architectures. This move positions China to scale AI adoption across industries and create domestic alternatives to Arm and Intel.

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