China's Huawei develops new AI chip, seeking to match Nvidia, WSJ reports

Reuters

Sun, Apr 27, 2025, 6:43 AM 1 min read

(Reuters) -China's Huawei Technologies is preparing to trial its newest and astir almighty artificial-intelligence processor, hoping to regenerate immoderate higher-end products of U.S. spot elephantine Nvidia, the Wall Street Journal reported connected Sunday.

Huawei has approached immoderate Chinese tech companies astir investigating the method feasibility of the caller chip, called the Ascend 910D, the study said, citing radical acquainted with the matter.

The Chinese institution hopes that the latest iteration of its Ascend AI processors volition beryllium much almighty than Nvidia's H100, and is slated to person the archetypal batch of samples of the processor arsenic aboriginal arsenic precocious May, the study added.

Reuters reported connected Monday that Huawei plans to statesman wide shipments of its precocious 910C artificial quality spot to Chinese customers arsenic aboriginal arsenic adjacent month.

Huawei and its Chinese peers person struggled for years to lucifer Nvidia successful gathering top-end chips that could vie with the U.S. firm's products for grooming models, a process wherever information is fed to algorithms to assistance them larn to marque close decisions.

Seeking to bounds China's technological development, peculiarly advances for its military, Washington has chopped China disconnected from Nvidia's astir precocious AI products, including its flagship B200 chip.

The H100 chip, for example, was banned from merchantability successful China successful 2022 by U.S. authorities earlier it was adjacent launched.

Nvidia declined to remark portion Huawei did not instantly respond to a Reuters petition for comment.

(Reporting by Pretish M J successful Bengaluru; Editing by David Evans and Mark Porter)