Wei Shaojun, vice president of China Semiconductor Industry Association, and a senior Chinese academic and government adviser, has called on China and other Asian countries to ditch using Nvidia GPUs for AI training and inference. At a forum in Singapore, he warned that reliance on U.S.-origin hardware poses long-term risks for China and its regional peers, reports Bloomberg.

Wei criticized the current AI development model across Asia, which closely mirrors the American path of using compute GPUs from Nvidia or AMD for training large language models such as ChatGPT and DeepSeek. He argued that this imitation limits regional autonomy and could become ‘lethal’ if not addressed. According to Wei, Asia’s strategy must diverge from the U.S. template, particularly in foundational areas like algorithm design and computing infrastructure.