{"id":974473,"date":"2025-11-17T10:53:48","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T05:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=974473"},"modified":"2025-11-17T10:53:48","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T05:23:48","slug":"chinese-ai-start-up-founder-now-worlds-3rd-richest-under-40-how-us-chip-curbs-helped-chen-tianshi-build-a-fortune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/17\/chinese-ai-start-up-founder-now-worlds-3rd-richest-under-40-how-us-chip-curbs-helped-chen-tianshi-build-a-fortune\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese AI start-up founder now world&#8217;s 3rd richest under 40\u2014how US chip curbs helped Chen Tianshi build a fortune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chen Tianshi, co-founder of Cambricon Technologies, was nowhere near being among the wealthiest people on Earth in 2019. His AI chip manufacturing company&#8217;s largest customer, Huawei Technologies Co., had suddenly stopped nearly all business to build its own semiconductors. Till then, Huawei had accounted for over 95% of the company\u2019s revenue.<\/p>\n<p>Following a sudden decline in a major source of revenue, Tianshi found a way to boost business due to the US decision to cut off China\u2019s access to cutting-edge chips and Beijing\u2019s aim to boost domestic technology, according to a report by Bloomberg News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chen Tianshi, co-founder of Cambricon Technologies, was nowhere near being among the wealthiest people on Earth in 2019. His AI chip manufacturing company&#8217;s largest customer, Huawei Technologies Co., had suddenly stopped nearly all business to build its own semiconductors. Till then, Huawei had accounted for over 95% of the company\u2019s revenue. Following a sudden decline in a major source of revenue, Tianshi found a way to boost business due to the US decision to cut off China\u2019s access to cutting-edge chips and Beijing\u2019s aim to boost domestic technology, according to a report by Bloomberg News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-974473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=974473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}