As per reports, Huawei Technologies plans to start mass shipping their advanced 910C artificial intelligence (AI) chip to Chinese customers as the beginning of next month. This could enhance AI development in China. The move comes as China’s tech firms are increasingly facing restrictive access to Nvidia’s cutting-edge AI chips due to strict export controls.
A Well Timed Release: Filling the Gap Left by Nvidia
Mass shipment of Huawei’s 910C comes at the best time for AI companies in China. These companies are actively looking for domestically produced alternatives to the Nvidia H20 chip that would have previously been available for sale in China. However, under the orders of former President Trump, the US Nvidia garrisoned access to the H20 with a proclamation of requiring an export license that further restricted access for US technology. For the rapidly developing AI industry in China, Huawei’s 910C GPU could serve as an essential savior.
Data from insiders about the chip’s design indicate that Huawei’s 910C is more of an architectural iteration than a revolutionary technology advance.
The exceptional performance metrics of Huawei’s 910C are derived from skillfully mechanizing two of the company’s 910B processors to form a single unit which scale integration techniques. Such a design achieves superior computing power alongside memory capacity relative to the 910B. Other reports have have also noted that the 910C features additional multi- AI workload data support improvements, thereby broadening its usability scope for AI tasks.
China’s Tech Independence: A Race Against Restrictions
With military technology considerations lying at the heart of Washington’s underpinning strategic rationale, Chinese supersonic stealth bombers equipped with advanced aerial killing drones face serious restrictions as Nvidia‘s disallowed export of AI gadgets. Even the workhorse B200 part face sidelined use restrictions. Self-Huawei, along with other GPU industry newcomers from China, are attempting to fill the market void left beaded systems gone, having booted up aboard the cut-off china plane. Dominated for so long unfairly rubbed thrust systems.
A Hardware of Choice: Huawei’s Ascend 910C
Attributing Insight from the Albright Stonebridge Group to Paul Triolo, the latest export restrictions from the US Commerce Department on Nvidia’s H20 will be impactful. He said that Huawei’s Ascend 910C GPU “will now become the hardware of choice for (Chinese) AI model developers and for deploying inference capacity.” This indicates that the new chip from Huawei is likely to relieve China’s dependence on US technology, Huawei’s chip is strategically positioned to support China’s move toward self-sufficiency in advanced technologies.
