There is an interesting article in today’s Wall Streey Journal regarding Huawei China’s top developer of semiconductor chips and more. The most recent development, recently announced relates to a joint effort between Huawei and Beijing based Cambricon Technologies to develop chips with similar capabilities to Nvidia’s H20 chips which are now restricted from export to China. Huawei executives have talked about has turned its focus to building more efficient and faster systems to leverage their chips, instead of making individual chips more powerful.
According to the WSJ report, In April, Huawei introduced the CloudMatrix 384, a computing system connecting 384 Ascend 910C chips. The newest product is the 910E. Huawei Technologies will receive its first shipment of Ascend 910E chips from manufacturers as soon as the end of May. The processor is Huawei’s most powerful AI semiconductor to date. According to the report, Huawei is hopeful that the chips will be more powerful than Nvidia’s H100 AI training chip, which it released in 2022 Some analysts said the system was more powerful than Nvidia’s flagship rack system, which contains 72 of Nvidia’s Blackwell chips, under some circumstances, even though the Chinese system consumes more power.
Tests are now being run on these new chips to determine their true capabilities and the results are expected to be reported soon.
Jeffrey Newman is a whistleblower lawyer representing individuals in False Claims Act (Qui Tam) cases with a focus on Medicare or Medicaid fraud but is also a frequent writer on issues relating to the world economy. He can be reached at Jeff@JeffNewmanLaw.com or at 617-823-3217
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