TapTechNews September 16th news, according to today's report by TheInformation, two people with direct knowledge revealed that ByteDance plans to cooperate with TSMC to mass-produce (in large quantities) two of its self-designed semiconductors by 2026, and it is expected that ByteDance will reserve the production of hundreds of thousands of chips.
Insiders said that producing these chips can reduce ByteDance's dependence on expensive Nvidia chips to develop and run AI models. ByteDance is accelerating the pace of manufacturing its own AI chips in order to take the lead over its competitors in the Chinese AI chatbot market.
In the first half of this year, there were foreign media reports that ByteDance cooperated with Broadcom to develop an AI processor to ensure a sufficient number of high-end chips. This AI processor has a 5-nanometer manufacturing process and will be manufactured by TSMC. Although the design work is progressing smoothly, the tape-out that marks the end of the design stage and the beginning of manufacturing has not yet begun. According to TapTechNews' previous report, ByteDance later denied the relevant rumors of cooperating with Broadcom to develop AI chips.
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