Chinese AI chip start-up Zhonghao Xinying has emerged as a home-grown alternative to Nvidia with a new tensor processing unit (TPU), just as Google shakes up Nvidia's lock on the market by selling its in-house tensor chips directly to major tech firms. The Hangzhou-based firm, also known as CL Tech, said its self-developed general-purpose tensor processing unit (GPTPU) went into mass production as early as 2023. Its flagship chip, dubbed Chana, delivers up to "1.5 times the compute performance" of Nvidia' ...