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Tech war: Huawei races to fill void left by Nvidia in China, with home-grown chips becoming popular components in ‘AI boxes’

2024-05-29 09:38 PM by Eugen Boglaru

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 …

Tech war: Huawei’s AI chip capabilities under intense scrutiny after market leader Nvidia taps it as potential rival

2024-03-02 08:11 PM by Wanda Parisien

The Ascend 910B is believed to succeed the Ascend 910, which was released by Huawei in August 2019, three months after it was put on a trade blacklist by the US Commerce Department. The chip can compete with Nvidia’s A100 in terms of powering AI algorithms, according to Dylan Patel, chief analyst at San Francisco-based …