Tech war: Huawei races to fill void left by Nvidia in China, with home-grown chips becoming popular components in ‘AI boxes’
Nvidia has designed lower-grade chips tailored for China-based clients after the US in October escalated its export restrictions to ban the shipments of the firm’s sophisticated A800, H800 and L40S processors to the country. But the onslaught of Huawei’s Ascend chips has proved challenging for Nvidia in its third-largest market. CEO Jensen Huang said in …