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[QUOTE="Queen, post: 85381, member: 27"]
Chinese AI startup talks big about matching NVIDIA hardware, but manufacturing reality still laughs in the background.

Startup claims rival NVIDIA performance
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[*]Iluvatar CoreX pitches an aggressive AI chip roadmap.
[*]The target stacks against NVIDIA Blackwell and Vera Rubin.
[*]The company frames this as domestic tech muscle.
[*]The plan leans heavily on optimism.
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What Iluvatar CoreX says it builds
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[*]Iluvatar CoreX focuses purely on high-performance computing.
[*]The architecture runs under the Tianshu Zhixin brand.
[*]Current chips reference NVIDIA Ampere-level performance.
[*]Details stay thin beyond product names.
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Broader China versus NVIDIA context
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[*]Chinese firms chase AI compute independence hard.
[*]Huawei and others already made similar NVIDIA challenges.
[*]Huawei promotes dense Ascend 950 server racks.
[*]Those systems aim at Vera Rubin-class scaling.
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Reality check facing Chinese chip makers
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[*]Chip design ambition outpaces fabrication capacity.
[*]Advanced manufacturing access stays limited.
[*]Power and cooling constraints remain unresolved.
[*]Marketing energy exceeds delivered silicon.
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