Huawei has launched its Unified Cache Manager (UCM), a software framework designed to speed up inference in large AI models. The company says the tool could lower costs and reduce China's dependence on costly high-bandwidth memory (HBM) chips

China has told domestic companies to steer clear of Nvidia's H20 processors, particularly for government and national security projects, raising the stakes for US chipmakers just as Washington reopened limited AI chip exports to China under a controversial deal requiring a 15% revenue share with the US government