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March 27 (Reuters) – Customer testing of Huawei’s new AI chip, designed to challenge Nvidia<\/a> (NVDA<\/a>) in the China market, has gone well and big tech giants including ByteDance and Alibaba (BABA<\/a>) plan to place orders, two \u200cpeople familiar with the matter said.<\/p>\n

The development marks a milestone for Huawei.<\/p>\n

Despite a government campaign to encourage the \u200cuse of domestic semiconductors, the Shenzhen-based firm struggled to persuade big tech firms in the private sector to adopt its current flagship chip, the Ascend \u200b910C, in large quantities, industry sources have previously said.<\/p>\n

This time around, tech firms intend to use the new 950PR more extensively, much happier now that the chip is more compatible with Nvidia’s CUDA software system and has better response speeds, said the two people and a third person with knowledge of those plans.<\/p>\n

Huawei plans to ship around 750,000 950PRs this year, according to two \u200cof the people. They said samples were \u2060sent to customers in January, and that mass production should begin next month, setting the stage for fully fledged shipments to start in the second half of the year.<\/p>\n

The sources were not \u2060authorised to speak to media and declined to be identified. Huawei, ByteDance, Alibaba did not reply to Reuters requests for comments.<\/p>\n

A launch of the 950PR comes at a difficult time for Nvidia in China. Many of its artificial intelligence<\/a> chips have \u200bbeen \u200bbanned from sale in China by Washington on worries that the \u200btechnology could boost the capabilities of the Chinese military.<\/p>\n

The \u200cTrump administration last year greenlighted the sale of Nvidia’s H200 chips – more powerful than currently restricted products – albeit with a number of conditions that could limit amounts sold.<\/p>\n

The H200 has also recently received approval from Chinese authorities, but it remains unclear when they will be allowed into the country.<\/p>\n

Huawei mentioned its new chip last September when it outlined its long-term semiconductor plans for the first time and said it would be launching some of the world’s most powerful computing systems<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The 950PR, \u200cwhich uses traditional DDR memory, will be priced at around 50,000 yuan ($6,900) \u200bper card, while a premium version with faster HBM memory will sell \u200bfor around 70,000 yuan, the sources said.<\/p>\n

Where previously Huawei \u200bhad stuck to its proprietary CANN software system, the new chips will allow developers at \u200cChinese tech firms, which have generally used Nvidia’s software \u200bsystem thus far, to migrate \u200bthose models more easily.<\/p>\n

The sources said that compared to the 910C, the chip only offers a small improvement in raw computing power, but it is designed to excel in handling inference workloads – the process of running trained \u200bAI models to answer queries or execute \u200ctasks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"March 27 (Reuters) – Customer testing of Huawei’s new AI chip, designed to challenge Nvidia (NVDA) in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[261],"tags":[291,8472,289,290,8473,18,183803,5218,19,183804,17,292,53520,82],"class_list":["post-406544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-alibaba","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-bytedance","tag-eire","tag-flagship-chip","tag-huawei","tag-ie","tag-industry-sources","tag-ireland","tag-nvidia","tag-tech-giants","tag-technology"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116300631632705704","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}