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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang gave a media interview after the "trillion-dollar dinner" in Taipei, Taiwan, on May 28, commenting on topics including competition in the artificial intelligence (AI) industry, cloud service providers (CSP) developing in-house application-specific integrated circuits (ASIC), Huawei's technological progress, Taiwan's role as a center of the AI revolution, and energy demand.

Cloud service providers' demand for application-specific integrated circuits, or ASICs, is increasingly locked in as advanced process nodes, advanced packaging, and component supply tighten worldwide. For readers across global tech markets, the shift means access to manufacturing capacity, not just chip design, is becoming the main determinant of who can supply the next wave of AI hardware.

Qualcomm has reportedly landed more than one ASIC customer, with a separate project for a US cloud service provider also taking shape, according to industry sources. The development follows reports from Bloombergand other media that ByteDance, the developer of TikTok, is Qualcomm's first major client for its custom chip push.