Tue 13 Aug 2024
Huawei is reportedly preparing a graphics chip on par with Nvidia's popular H100, and will launch it later this year. 6park.com
Termed the Ascend 910C, it succeeds Huawei's Ascend 910B and is currently being tested by Chinese internet and telecoms firms, according
 to the Wall Street Journal. The current-generation Ascend 910B, which 
debuted as early as 2022, is said to be as fast as Nvidia's A100 from 
2020; with H100 levels of performance, the Ascend 910C would be a 
substantial step up. 6park.com
According to the report's anonymous sources, Baidu, China Mobile, and
 TikTok-owner ByteDance are all interested in obtaining some Ascend 910C
 chips. Huawei is said to have already received at least 70k orders for 
the 910C, worth roughly two billion dollars. 6park.com
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However, development of the company's new graphics processor has been
 troubled by the US government's sanctions, which has caused delays. 
Huawei has to contend with the usual problems like lack of access to 
advanced process nodes, inability to acquire chipmaking tools from firms
 like ASML, and perhaps most importantly for a datacenter GPU, not being
 able to (legally) import high bandwidth memory (HBM) chips. 6park.com
https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/13/huaweis_ascend_910_launches_this/