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   Chinese GPU makers race on supernodes as buyers weigh cost and ecosystem

   At the 26th China International Industry Expo, where the integrated-circuit zone debuted as a standalone exhibition, domestic GPU vendors focused on rack-scale "supernodes": MetaX showed its 64-GPU fully interconnected Xijing S600 plus a 16-GPU S600 Lite, Enflame showed the Yunsui ESL64-O built with ZTE, and Iluvatar CoreX packed 144 GPUs and 18 CPUs into one 44U rack, saying the TianGai 300 IXL144 reaches 100-nanosecond single-hop latency and a 15% effective bandwidth gain in certain MoE All-to-All scenarios (all vendor claims). Citing an IDC report via Reuters, the article says China's data-center AI accelerator shipments reached 2.008 million units in the first half of 2026, with Nvidia at 678,000 (34%) and Huawei at 572,000 (28%), while China GPU shipments fell 26% year on year to 991,000 units and other AI accelerator types rose nearly 80% to 1.016 million. The report argues that beyond performance and price, stable supply, software ecosystem maturity and the ability to bring real customers and revenue to compute centers will shape commercialization, with vendors ultimately answering how to lower customers' total cost of ownership.

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2. 5d
   China's non-GPU AI accelerator shipments overtake GPUs as big tech turns chip seller

   IDC data shows China's data center AI accelerator shipments reached 2.008 million units in the first half of 2026, with non-GPU accelerators at 1.016 million — surpassing GPUs for the first time. Nvidia remained No. 1 with 34% share but its shipments fell 44% year-on-year, narrowing its lead over Huawei's Ascend (28%) to 6 percentage points; Alibaba's T-Head (7%) and Baidu's Kunlunxin (4%) joined Huawei and Cambricon in accounting for about 95% of the non-GPU segment. The report argues that with model profits still elusive, full-stack vendors are monetizing their own silicon: Alibaba plans Q1 2027 mass production for Zhenwu V900 and Panjiu super-node servers carrying it, Baidu is spinning off Kunlunxin (reported to seek a ~$50 billion valuation), and Huawei is bundling Ascend super-nodes while opening up CANN.

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