Cambricon hits new high, denies supplying large quantities to internet vendors
Cambricon's stock price surged over 16% today, reaching a new all-time high and approaching a market capitalization of 1 trillion yuan. This surge follows recent reports of domestic internet companies procuring domestic computing power. Specifically, ByteDance is reportedly in discussions to purchase at least 50,000 AI chips from Tian Shu Zhi Xin for inference tasks, with Huawei and Cambricon also mentioned as suppliers. However, Cambricon has denied the authenticity of an internal communication memo circulating online, which claimed they were supplying ByteDance with models 580 and 690, and projected significant deliveries of the 580 model in the second quarter. AI
IMPACT Potential indicator of increased demand for domestic AI inference chips, impacting supply chains and competition.