Chinese tech firms are leveraging software improvements to compensate for limited access to advanced hardware.

Huawei has launched its Unified Cache Manager (UCM), a software framework designed to speed up inference in large AI models.

Huawei unveils UCM, a memory management tool that boosts AI inference speed and reduces reliance on HBM, set to open source in September 2025.

Huawei’s announcement today could relieve some of this pressure on China’s domestic chip industry, with the software allowing ...