Huawei partners win big as China Telecom invests US$1.7 billion in 40,000 servers (opens in new tab)

China Telecom has named the winners of a multibillion-dollar high-performance server procurement programme, handing a major victory to domestic CPU chip companies like Huawei Technologies as state firms rapidly replace US technology with domestic hardware. The deal, which covers China Telecom’s needs for 2026 and 2027, called for 40,000 high-performance servers split into two packages, according to notices on its procurement platform on Tuesday. While the final price tag was not made public,...