Huawei unveils AI chip to take on Nvidia

Huawei Technologies Co unveiled new Al chip technology with greater computing power in a bid to challenge Nvidia Corp’s dominance.

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The Shenzhen-based firm's new SuperPod technology can support linking as many as 15,488 graphic cards containing Huawei’s Ascend-branded artificial intelligence chips, the company said in a statement yesterday. It added that it now operates a super cluster with about 1 million graphic cards.

Earlier this year, Huawei’s founder Ren Zhengfei told state newspaper People’s Daily that Huawei is still lagging behind the US in terms of output from a single chip but “we can still get the results we want by compensating with cluster based computing.”