Huawei aims to take on Nvidia’s H100 with new AI chip

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Chinese tech conglomerate Huawei is looking to take on semiconductor behemoth Nvidia with a new advanced AI chip.

Huawei is making progress developing its latest Ascend AI GPU, the Ascend 910D, according to the Wall Street Journal, citing sources familiar. The company has been reaching out to other Chinese firms to find test partners, the Wall Street Journal reports, and hopes that its chip will rival Nvidia’s H100 series, which is popular for training AI models.

The development comes just a few weeks after the U.S. imposed further restrictions on the export of certain AI chips to China. If Huawei is successful, it could help fill a void in the Chinese AI market left by increased chip export controls in the U.S.

TechCrunch has reached out to Huawei for comment and will update this post if we hear back.