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


By Che Pan

Huawei chips are becoming popular components in Chinese-made AI boxes, setting up the company to overtake Nvidia in the mainland market. The pace of Huawei’s ascendancy in China’s AI chip market will depend on how quickly it can ramp up production. — SCMP

US-sanctioned Huawei Technologies has emerged as a key supplier of artificial intelligence (AI) chips in China after Washington implemented export curbs on Nvidia’s advanced processors, according to industry insiders.

Use of the Chinese company’s self-developed 910B Ascend chips have proliferated in various industries across the country through “AI boxes” – all-in-one machines that combine AI chips, industry-specific algorithms and pre-trained large AI models.

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