Huawei announces new AI infrastructure as Nvidia gets locked out of China

Tech large Huawei unveiled new AI infrastructure meant to assist increase compute energy and permit the corporate to raised compete with rival chipmaker Nvidia.  

At a keynote at its Huawei Join convention on Thursday, Shenzhen, China-based Huawei introduced new SuperPoD Interconnect know-how that may hyperlink as much as 15,000 graphics playing cards, together with Huawei’s Ascend AI chips, collectively to extend compute energy. 

This tech appears to be a competitor for Nvidia’s NVLink infrastructure, which facilitates high-speed communication between AI chips.  

Expertise like this is essential for Huawei to raised compete with semiconductors like Nvidia’s. Whereas Huawei’s AI chips are much less highly effective than Nvidia’s, having the ability to cluster them collectively will give its customers entry to extra compute energy, which is required for coaching and scaling AI programs.  

This information additionally comes only a day after China banned home tech corporations from shopping for Nvidia’s {hardware}, together with Nvidia’s RTX Professional 600D servers particularly designed for the market in China.  

Trendster reached out to Huawei for extra info.