In a front page interview published on Tuesday by the People’s Daily, the mouthpiece of the Communist Party, Ren said by using methods like “stacking and clustering, the computing results are comparable” to the most advanced programmes in the world. Huawei has patented some techniques to package chiplets on top of each other to make processors smaller.
It was the first time that Ren spoke about the impact of US sanctions since the launch of ChatGPT in 2022. His comments echoed a view that Washington has failed to arrest China’s tech advances, particularly in the field of artificial intelligence (AI).
The interview quickly gained traction in China, with the hashtag PeoplesDailyReporterTalksToRen reaching No 10 spot for trending topics on Chinese microblogging site Weibo on Tuesday morning.
He said China has many advantages in developing AI, including “hundreds of millions of young people” in addition to “sufficient electricity and a developed information network”.
“China’s power generation and power grid transmission are very good, and the communications network is the most developed in the world,” Ren said.
