TechCheck Takes: China’s next breakthrough moment is in AI hardware 1/28/26
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4.5 • 66 Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2026
⏱️ 40 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | China's next deep seek moment, it won't be another AI model. |
| 0:03.0 | The United States doesn't want to participate in China. |
| 0:06.0 | Huawei's got China covered and Huawei's got everybody else covered. |
| 0:10.0 | Instead, it's their AI hardware that's catching up, and that may matter more. |
| 0:15.0 | Some of these new Chinese models are really like surprising everyone as well. Further ahead, much lower cost, trained without the super expensive chips. |
| 0:25.6 | They're nanoseconds behind us. |
| 0:27.6 | Nanoseconds behind us. |
| 0:29.6 | New and relatively unknown chip makers are raising billions and gaining adoption. |
| 0:34.6 | China's IPO market seen a revival driven by some new AI names. |
| 0:38.5 | There's an ecosystem there that is now betting on domestic Chinese chip firms such as |
| 0:44.4 | Huawei, more threads, CamberCon. |
| 0:47.6 | A leg up over the U.S. on energy and scaling compute fast. |
| 0:52.0 | China power generation looks like a rocket going to orbit. |
| 0:55.0 | Forcing both Washington and the chip industry to confront a new reality. |
| 0:59.0 | And the president's perspective is that the technology, the American technology stack, |
| 1:04.0 | he wants the developers in China to also be using the American technology stack. |
| 1:10.0 | I'm Drabosa with the take. |
| 1:11.6 | One year after DeepSeek upended the AI landscape, |
| 1:14.6 | China is running the playbook again. |
| 1:20.6 | China has a major handicap in the global AI race. |
| 1:26.6 | Limited access to the most advanced AI chips |
| 1:30.0 | thanks to U.S. restrictions that has forced AI labs like DeepSeek to find workarounds |
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