The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday that Reuters – China’s Huawei technology is preparing to test its latest, most powerful artificial intelligence processor, hoping to replace some high-end products from U.S. chip giant Nvidia.
The report said Huawei has linked some Chinese tech companies with technical feasibility to test new chips, called the “Ascend 910d”, and quoted people familiar with the matter.
The report added that the Chinese company hopes that the latest iteration of its Ascend AI processor will be more powerful than NVIDIA’s H100 and plans to receive the first samples of the processor earlier in late May.
Reuters reported on Monday that Huawei plans to start mass-transporting its advanced 910C artificial intelligence chips to Chinese customers as early as next month.
Huawei and its Chinese peers have been working hard to match NVIDIA for years to build high-end chips that can compete with U.S. companies’ training model products, a process that provides data to algorithms to help them learn accurate decisions.
To limit China’s technological development, especially military progress, Washington has removed China from NVIDIA’s most advanced AI products, including its flagship B200 chip.
For example, the H100 chip was banned from being sold in China in 2022 by US authorities.
Nvidia declined to comment, and Huawei did not immediately respond to Reuters’ request for comment.
(Reported by MJ in Bangalore; Edited by David Evans and Mark Porter)
