Huawei Develops New AI Chip to Compete with Nvidia’s H100 Series

Huawei is stepping up its efforts to compete in the semiconductor industry with a new advanced AI chip designed to rival Nvidia’s H100, a popular AI GPU used for training machine learning models. The Chinese tech giant is progressing with the development of the Ascend 910D, an AI GPU that could position Huawei as a serious contender in the high-performance computing space. Reports from the Wall Street Journal suggest that Huawei is reaching out to various Chinese companies to test the chip, indicating the company’s push for local AI solutions. This announcement comes shortly after the United States imposed new restrictions on the export of certain AI chips to China, potentially limiting China’s access to high-performance GPUs like Nvidia’s. If successful, Huawei’s new chip could fill the void in China’s AI market left by these export restrictions. While this development highlights Huawei’s ambitions in the AI hardware sector, it also marks a significant shift in the geopolitical landscape, as the US and China continue their technology rivalry. TechCrunch has reached out to Huawei for a comment but has not yet received a response.