By Ben Jiang
China is requiring its data centres to use more home-grown computing chips in a move that underscores Beijing鈥檚 accelerated efforts to cut reliance on foreign technology as the US tightens export controls.
Publicly owned computing hubs across the country have been asked to source more than 50 per cent of their chips from domestic producers to support the indigenous semiconductor sector, according to people familiar with the matter.
The mandate finds its origins in guidelines proposed in March…