Huawei's Ascend 910B challenges Nvidia in AI chips despite US sanctions, raising questions about the effectiveness of Washington's moves.
indicate that Nvidia and industry analysts see Huawei’s Ascend 910B as a viable alternative to the California-based industry leader’s own A100 data center GPUs.
Powered by an in-house Kirin 9000s processor, the Mate 60 Pro is Huawei’s first 5G smartphone since the Mate 40 series in 2020. Has Huawei managed to circumvent the US chip ban? reports that the company has partnered with domestic suppliers to continue developing chips. Touted as “the world’s most powerful AI processor,” the Ascend 910B was released around the same time as the Mate 60 Pro. Chinese tech giant Baidu promptly ordered 1,600 Ascend 910B chips in the same month.
Furthermore, Chinese AI company iFlytek launched its Feixing One computing platform based on Huawei’s Ascend chips, suggesting that its iFlytek Spark 3.0 large language model “may have been developed on AI chips,” reported that Huawei and SMIC allocated more capacity to AI chips, signaling an increased focus on generative AI. Although the Ascend 910B is “available for order,” “supply is really tight at the moment,” said one GPU distributor declining to be named.
While Huawei currently has a proprietary platform, Compute Architecture for Neural Networks, linking its Ascend hardware and software, Brian Colello, technology equity strategist at Morningstar highlighted the need for a Huawei-centered ecosystem comparable to CUDA to make the battle more feisty. “CUDA is sticky, Nvidia did all of this hard work on its own and is reaping the benefits,” the strategist told
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