[the surge in ChatGPT demand for chips shows that the global AI chip race is heating up] according to a study by UBS, since its launch in November 2022, ChatGPT has been used by hundreds of millions of people, making it the fastest growing consumer application in history. Yasuo Mihashi, joint chief strategy officer of Advantest, a Japanese supplier of chip test equipment, said the global competition to develop a powerful computing cluster and the next generation of AI training systems was prompting chipmakers to buy more of the company's chip testing tools. At present, the demand for consumer electronics is low. But the surge in AI is driving up orders from Nvidia and AMD, which provide key artificial intelligence training chips and rely on Advantest as their main testing tool supplier, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. (first Finance)