At the World AI Conference in Shanghai, Chinese chipmakers pitched their latest hardware to customers who can’t get Nvidia’s technology — and can’t get enough of theirs either.

At the World AI Conference in Shanghai, Chinese chipmakers pitched their latest hardware to customers who can’t get Nvidia’s technology — and can’t get enough of theirs either.

That was the message to Chinese companies from a confidant of leader Xi Jinping, who’s heading up domestic efforts to overcome Nvidia’s stranglehold on cutting-edge AI chips. Go…