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  • Chen's response addressed whether Cambricon had communicated the market figure, without establishing its eventual shipment total.

Shipment figure questioned

Cambricon chairman and general manager Chen Tianshi said the company had never communicated a figure circulating in the market about shipments exceeding one million chips next year, China Fund News reported on October 26. Reporter Wen Yan attributed the remarks to the Chinese AI-chip company's third-quarter results briefing that day.

The statement addresses the company's communication of the number. It does not establish how many chips Cambricon will actually ship next year, and the report supplies no confirmed shipment forecast.

AI platform investment

Chen also discussed research spending when asked about customer demand for supernode deployments. China Fund News said he did not directly answer whether the company had received such demand, instead citing continued investment in chip and software platforms for large models.

He said Cambricon would keep upgrading its intelligent-chip products and basic system software, and strengthen coordination between hardware and software. These are management's stated priorities; the comments do not independently confirm orders or deployment capacity.

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