China has included AI chips in its official 'secure and reliable' technology assessments for the first time, promoting domestic alternatives to Western products. This move expands a state-backed initiative to reduce reliance on foreign technology.

For the first time, China has included artificial intelligence chips in its official “secure and reliable” technology assessments, expanding the scope of a state-backed drive to adopt domestic alternatives to Western products. The China Information Technology Security Evaluation Centre and the National Secrecy Science and Technology Evaluation Centre released the latest batch of assessments on Tuesday evening, creating a new category for “AI training and inference chips”. The certifications were...