Baidu's Chip Design Unit Kunlunxin Secures $139 Million in Orders from China Mobile Suppliers

Baidu chip-design unit Kunlunxin wins over $139 million orders from China Mobile suppliers

BEIJING, Aug 22 (Reuters) - Chinese semiconductor design firm Kunlunxin, which is backed by Baidu (9888.HK), opens new tab, said it had won chip orders worth over a billion yuan ($139 million) for telecoms firm China Mobile's (600941.SS), opens new tab AI projects, as authorities push for domestic alternatives to Nvidia (NVDA.O), opens new tab. Kunlunxin will supply artificial intelligence chips compatible with Nvidia's CUDA software platform to firms such as H3C Technologies and telecoms equipment maker ZTE that are first-tier suppliers to China Mobile, it said in a statement released late on Thursday. Tech giant Baidu owns 59% of Kunlunxin, Chinese corporate registry Qichacha shows. A Huawei-related company also won part of the orders requiring hardware compatibility with Huawei's Compute Architecture for Neural Networks (CANN), an equivalent of CUDA, according to tender results published by China Mobile earlier. Many developers rely on Nvidia's CUDA platform to build AI and other apps, which is optimised for Nvidia Graphics Processing Units. 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 Chinese AI startup DeepSeek. Like Huawei's Ascend chips, Baidu's Kunlun chips are among a dozen of Chinese-made alternatives competing for market share with Nvidia GPUs. Baidu's and other domestic GPUs have better CUDA compatibility than Ascend, which is crucial for reducing extra costs for developers to shift from Nvidia's ecosystem. ($1 = 7.1840 Chinese yuan renminbi) Reporting by Che Pan and Brenda Goh; Editing by Clarence Fernandez and Emelia Sithole-Matarise Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles., opens new tab * Suggested Topics: * Technology Brenda Goh Thomson Reuters Brenda Goh is Reuters' Shanghai bureau chief and oversees coverage of corporates in China. Brenda joined Reuters as a trainee in London in 2010 and has reported stories from over a dozen countries.

Baidu-backed chip designer Kunlunxin wins millions of yuan worth of China Mobile orders

NVIDIA Corporation is the world leader in the design, development, and marketing of programmable graphics processors. The group also develops associated software. Net sales break down by family of products as follows: - computing and networking solutions (77.8%): data center platforms and infrastructure, Ethernet interconnect solutions, high-performance computing solutions, platforms and solutions for autonomous and intelligent vehicles, solutions for enterprise artificial intelligence infrastructure, crypto-currency mining processors, embedded computer boards for robotics, teaching, learning and artificial intelligence development, etc.; - graphics processors (22.2%): for PCs, game consoles, video game streaming platforms, workstations, etc. (GeForce, NVIDIA RTX, Quadro brands, etc.). The group also offers laptops, desktops, gaming computers, computer peripherals (monitors, mice, joysticks, remote controls, etc.), software for visual and virtual computing, platforms for automotive infotainment systems and cloud collaboration platforms. Net sales break down by industry between data storage (78%), gaming (17.1%), professional visualization (2.5%), automotive (1.8%) and other (0.6%). Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: the United States (44.3%), Taiwan (22%), China (16.9%) and other (16.8%).