{"id":13416,"date":"2026-01-05T21:26:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T21:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/baidu-and-huawei-tighten-grip-on-chinas-gpu-cloud-as-chipmakers-chase-ipos\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T21:26:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T21:26:23","slug":"baidu-and-huawei-tighten-grip-on-chinas-gpu-cloud-as-chipmakers-chase-ipos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/baidu-and-huawei-tighten-grip-on-chinas-gpu-cloud-as-chipmakers-chase-ipos\/","title":{"rendered":"Baidu and Huawei tighten grip on China\u2019s GPU cloud as chipmakers chase IPOs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/og_image_scmp_generic\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/01\/05\/f3414a1e-44e6-4817-8e6e-8b3706aafaeb_c1425a52.jpg?itok=4rLER_Rg&amp;v=1767612007\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Baidu and Huawei Technologies collectively accounted for more than 70 per cent of China&rsquo;s market for cloud services built on home-grown graphics processing units (GPUs) in the first half of 2025, as home-grown artificial intelligence chips gain traction amid rising demand for computing power and a wave of public listing plans.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The figures, published in a Frost &amp; Sullivan report released on Sunday, defined &ldquo;GPU cloud&rdquo; providers as companies that controlled the full chip-to-cloud value chain &ndash; from proprietary AI chips to computing clusters and cloud services.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Baidu held a 40.4 per cent share, followed by Huawei with 30.1 per cent, the report said.<\/p>\n<div data-qa=\"InlineAdSlot-Container\" class=\"css-zl1inp e11v3ui14\">\n<div class=\"e11v3ui10 e11v3ui13 css-1evd7i0 e1flwkbl0\" data-qa=\"AdSlot-Container\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The findings reflect a broader shift among China&rsquo;s leading AI chip developers &ndash; including Baidu, Huawei and Alibaba Group Holding &ndash; as they move beyond individual chip design to build full-stack hardware and software capabilities, in a bid to rival Nvidia&rsquo;s CUDA ecosystem and meet surging demand for AI training and inference. Alibaba owns the South China Morning Post.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">&ldquo;Through systematic innovation, they are integrating thousands or tens of thousands of self-developed chips into a single, massive virtual computing resource pool,&rdquo; the report said.<\/p>\n<div data-qa=\"InlineAdSlot-Container\" class=\"css-zl1inp e11v3ui14\">\n<div class=\"e11v3ui10 e11v3ui13 css-117a6hs e1flwkbl0\" data-qa=\"AdSlot-Container\">\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/12-weeks-jail-for-school-it-support-technician-who-took-upskirt-videos-of-teachers\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">&lt;div&gt;12 weeks' jail for school IT support technician who took upskirt videos of teachers&lt;\/div&gt;<\/span><\/a><\/div><p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Frost &amp; Sullivan cautioned that China&rsquo;s domestic GPU market still faced constraints including &ldquo;hardware performance, software ecosystems, system integration and commercial operations&rdquo;, meaning only a limited number of vendors had reached large-scale deployment so far.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">However, the domestic GPUs would move from being &ldquo;strategic backups&rdquo; to &ldquo;core pillars&rdquo; for the country&rsquo;s AI industry over the next three to five years, the report said, adding that these chips were now demonstrating competitive cost-to-performance ratios over general-purpose chips in real-world workloads.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>Baidu and Huawei tighten grip on China&rsquo;s GPU cloud as chipmakers chase IPOs<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baidu and Huawei Technologies collectively accounted for more than 70 per cent of China&rsquo;s market for cloud services built on home-grown graphics processing units (GPUs) in the first half of 2025, as home-grown artificial intelligence chips gain traction amid rising demand for computing power and a wave of public listing plans. The figures, published in&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/baidu-and-huawei-tighten-grip-on-chinas-gpu-cloud-as-chipmakers-chase-ipos\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Baidu and Huawei tighten grip on China\u2019s GPU cloud as chipmakers chase IPOs&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13417,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}