Alibaba’s move comes just as Nvidia reported another set of record results.

China’s tech giants are racing to plug the gap left by Washington’s export bans, with Alibaba rolling out a new AI processor designed to replace Nvidia’s restricted H20 chip.

The e-commerce titan, now also the country’s largest cloud-computing group, said the chip is more versatile than its predecessors and is aimed squarely at domestic AI developers starved of US technology, according to the Wall Street Journal.

As a result, Beijing has doubled down on its push for self-reliance in semiconductors after Washington barred the sale of Nvidia’s most advanced processors into China.

The move has left local players such as Alibaba and Shanghai-based MetaX scrambling to deliver homegrown alternatives.

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