When China stops competing and starts reinventing
https://x.com/OopsGuess/status/1980698541615194351
When China stops competing and starts reinventing
While the West debates GPU bans and export controls, China quietly built something no one sanctioned:
a superfast analogue AI chip that thinks 1,000x faster than Nvidia’s H100, using physics instead of transistors.
Digital computing runs on zeros and ones.
It calculates by cutting reality into fragments,
precise, but energy-hungry.
Analogue computing doesn’t “count.”
It flows.
It computes through continuity, like the human brain or the rhythm of nature itself.
For a century, scientists worldwide called this the “holy grail” of computation,to make analogue precise enough for modern AI.
Now, researchers at Peking University say they’ve done it:
a resistive memory chip that could process information 1,000x faster and use 100x less power than today’s digital chips.
It doesn’t just compute differently.
It rethinks what computing is.
While others race to shrink silicon,
China moved sideways, escaping the binary prison of 0 and 1 altogether.
The irony?
America spent decades trying to “contain” China’s chips.
But how do you contain someone who’s no longer playing your game?
When you hit a wall, you slow down.
When China hits a wall, it builds a new dimension.
The story isn’t about beating Nvidia.
It’s about rewriting the equation itself:
Efficiency over brute force,
Continuity over fragmentation,
Analogue over digital.
They used to say China copies.
Now China computes differently.
And when that happens,
the future won’t be made in Silicon Valley,
but in Beijing’s laboratories.
Physics doesn’t take sides.
It simply rewards whoever understands it first.
posted by Satish Sharma at
01:26
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