Huawei keeps pushing forward against NVIDIA in the Chinese market with its brand new Ascend 920 chip. The company aims to fill the gap after NVIDIA faces barriers to selling its H20 AI accelerator to China.
Chinese tech giants have already started adopting local options instead. Huawei designed the Ascend 920 specifically to compete with NVIDIA's H20. They built it using completely domestic supply chains. The chip runs on SMIC's 6nm process, better than the earlier 7nm Ascend 910C model. Performance specs include 900 TFLOPS with 4,000 GB/s memory bandwidth, using a chiplet design similar to previous versions.
Reports suggest the new chip performs 30-40% faster than its predecessor, possibly making it better than NVIDIA's H20. Independent testing will need to confirm these claims. Huawei announced this just one day after new export rules hit NVIDIA, showing their determination to lead the market.
The company also makes progress with AI clusters. Their CloudMatrix 384 system, which uses Ascend 910C chips, reportedly outperforms NVIDIA's advanced GB200 NVL72 system. This shows Huawei's serious commitment to AI hardware as NVIDIA struggles with export rules in China.
Chinese tech giants have already started adopting local options instead. Huawei designed the Ascend 920 specifically to compete with NVIDIA's H20. They built it using completely domestic supply chains. The chip runs on SMIC's 6nm process, better than the earlier 7nm Ascend 910C model. Performance specs include 900 TFLOPS with 4,000 GB/s memory bandwidth, using a chiplet design similar to previous versions.
Reports suggest the new chip performs 30-40% faster than its predecessor, possibly making it better than NVIDIA's H20. Independent testing will need to confirm these claims. Huawei announced this just one day after new export rules hit NVIDIA, showing their determination to lead the market.
The company also makes progress with AI clusters. Their CloudMatrix 384 system, which uses Ascend 910C chips, reportedly outperforms NVIDIA's advanced GB200 NVL72 system. This shows Huawei's serious commitment to AI hardware as NVIDIA struggles with export rules in China.
