{"id":274009,"date":"2026-06-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/16\/could-a-diamond-wafer-as-wide-as-a-basketball-be-chinas-trump-card-in-ai-race\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T00:20:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T04:20:12","slug":"could-a-diamond-wafer-as-wide-as-a-basketball-be-chinas-trump-card-in-ai-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/16\/could-a-diamond-wafer-as-wide-as-a-basketball-be-chinas-trump-card-in-ai-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Could a diamond wafer as wide as a basketball be China\u2019s trump card in AI race?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Could a diamond wafer as wide as a basketball be China\u2019s trump card in AI race?<\/a><\/p>\n

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Publish Date: 2026-06-16 00:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n

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When Harbin Institute of Technology<\/span> (HIT) held its 11th group wedding for doctoral students on May 31, each of the 187 newlywed couples was presented with a one-carat diamond ring, with the diamonds grown in the university\u2019s laboratory.<\/p>\n

The gems were developed by Zhu Jiaqi and his team from HIT\u2019s School of Astronautics using a technology that in theory could produce high-purity, single crystal diamonds of any shape and size \u2013 from wedding jewellery to a wafer as wide as a basketball.<\/p>\n

Known as microwave plasma chemical vapour deposition (MPCVD), the process generates carbon atoms in an ultra-clean environment, depositing them layer by layer onto a diamond seed crystal.<\/p>\n

As the global artificial intelligence<\/span> race enters an era defined by computing power, China is emerging as a leading producer of ultra-large synthetic diamonds \u2013 increasingly viewed as critical to dissipating the heat generated by semiconductors.<\/p>\n

With chip performance increasingly constrained by the more fundamental physical challenge of heat, a series of breakthroughs in the growing of large single-crystal diamonds could give China an unexpected advantage in next-generation AI hardware.<\/p>\n

This picture of Zhu Yanhui (left) and Jensen Huang was posted to social media after their meeting in January in Beijing. Photo: WeChatDuring a visit to Beijing in January, Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang<\/span> had a meeting with Zhu Yanhui, founder of Chaoying Diamond Technology, a supplier of diamond technology application materials.
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