HONG KONG -- With the U.S. issuing new worldwide restrictions on the use of Huawei Technologies artificial intelligence chips, Chinese tech giant Tencent Holdings said Wednesday that it has enough previously acquired high-end chips to sustain its AI training "for a few more generations" and is exploring ways to boost AI inference efficiency, including through software optimization.
"So it's a very dynamic situation, and we just ... have to manage the situation," Tencent President Martin Lau said on a conference call with analysts. This means not only addressing it "in a completely compliant way," but also "trying to figure out the right solution for us to make sure that our AI strategy ... can still be executed."
