China is requiring semiconductor manufacturers to source at least 50% of their equipment from domestic suppliers when adding new production capacity, Reuters reported, citing people familiar with the matter

ByteDance is planning to procure a mix of Nvidia H200 accelerators and Huawei Technologies Ascend chips to meet its growing artificial intelligence needs while adhering to China's push for localized hardware. The move underscores the challenge facing Chinese technology companies that must preserve high-performance training capacity while signaling compliance with domestic industrial policy