Day 2 of AWE: Chinese graphics cards and exoskeletons impress overseas buyers—many want to become partners!

AWE (2026 China Home Appliances and Consumer Electronics Expo) Day Two (March 13), inside the Eastern Hub Business District, foreign visitors’ eyes on Chinese smart terminals have changed.

It’s unbelievable. A Pakistani visitor at the Lisan Technology booth of Shanghai GPU company Lisan Tech watched several computers running large-scale games simultaneously, with detailed, smooth graphics and no lag. He couldn’t help but ask the staff, “Is this running on Chinese graphics cards?”

Lisan Tech co-founder Kong Dehai told reporters that after the domestic “GPU Four Little Dragons” launched their products, these peers focused on AI computing GPUs. Lisan Tech chose to start with high-performance graphics rendering GPUs, making a rare domestic combination of graphics rendering and inference. “In this field, including us, there are only four leading companies in China. Some peers have purchased overseas IP, but Lisan decided to develop everything in-house.” This means their products are fully autonomous and controllable, capable of high performance, compatible with the latest ecosystems, without paying high overseas licensing fees, and naturally without supply disruption risks.

Foreigners are curious about Chinese GPUs.

Lisan Tech’s high-end GPUs, after four years of polishing, have become formidable. Kong Dehai couldn’t help but reveal to the foreign visitor: Lisan graphics cards are approaching the performance of NVIDIA’s A5000 in digital twin systems.

Digital twins in healthcare, industrial, and urban management are just the beginning. Next come intelligent cockpits, embodied intelligence, world models, and other digital economy sectors. The graphics GPUs are entering a market worth hundreds of billions. More importantly, many of Lisan’s clients are eager because they need to achieve domestic substitution within two years. Chinese GPUs truly deserve attention.

Unprecedented excitement. At the Yushu and MiniMax booths, when Korean visitor Jenny saw robots and robotic dogs avoiding obstacles and interacting smoothly, she couldn’t help but marvel that China’s embodied intelligence technology and progress have far exceeded her expectations. Indonesian buyer Eric shared the same feeling. At the SenseTime ecosystem area, he was attracted by SenseTime’s large model-enabled devices. There was the “Lingyu Universe Little Square Machine,” an AI learning companion for children; the “Yuan Radish” AI chess robot bringing fun to playing; and the 24/7 online emotional companion “Fuzozo.” Especially when Eric learned that these products had over 100,000 units shipped, his eyes lit up with excitement mixed with complexity, because in his country, AI is still a difficult, abstract technology, while China has already applied it so broadly.

Foreigners are interested in Chinese AI toys.

In the eyes of more visitors, there is a desire to join in. A Romanian visitor carefully recorded product parameters, planning to introduce Chinese robots into local hotels and factories. Another German visitor plans to bring a 52-hour flying industrial drone to his hometown’s orchards for planting, fertilizing, or spraying pesticides. At AoShark Intelligent booth, company partner Zhang Hua invited nearly 20 overseas clients in bulk. “I told them that at CES in Las Vegas this January, AoShark was still conservative. But now that you’re in China, I’ll show you the real skills.” Sure enough, a European client who just arrived put on an industrial exoskeleton from AoShark. With AI assistance, he easily lifted a 25-kilogram water bucket. He said, “Let me become AoShark’s partner! I want to bring these never-seen-before products to the European market.”

Zhang Hua told reporters that this was the most common thing all overseas clients said to him over the past two days.

Foreigners experience AoShark.