# heterogeneous many‑core

From Supercomputer Roots to Server Floors: China’s Many‑Core Chips Race to Close the AI‑Compute Gap

A new server production line in Jiangsu bundles Loongson CPUs with Taichu Yuange’s heterogeneous many‑core AI accelerators as China pursues an indigenous, energy‑efficient AI compute stack. Backed by policy and driven by demand for HPC+AI, this approach challenges the dominant GPGPU model but faces ecosystem, utilisation and commercialisation hurdles.