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Has NVIDIA Lost the Lead?

Are China’s New SuperPoDs That Good?

9 min readSep 22, 2025

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Huawei has recently presented its upcoming AI accelerator roadmap, and it looks pretty insane. The lineup looks so good that China apparently no longer wants NVIDIA GPUs.

But is this really what it seems? Should the US Government and AI incumbents be freaking out?

The answer is yes, but not for the reasons one might think. Instead, it’s the one thing that is setting China very far ahead of the US.

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Ignacio de Gregorio
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