The company recently unveiled a new AI server cluster in China's Anhui province. Rather than relying on graphics processing units (GPUs) from Nvidia, which dominates the global market for AI chips, the new cluster uses Ascend chips developed in-house by Huawei. This development, alongside reports of performance gains and a growing domestic ecosystem, raises questions about whether US curbs are effectively. Huawei Technologies Co has built a robust ecosystem around its Ascend chips for AI computing and its server chips Kunpeng, despite the US government's restrictions. Zhou Jun, head of ICT marketing department at Huawei, said in a recent speech in Beijing that the company has attracted over 6. New data shows Huawei alone shipped roughly 812,000 AI chip units last. At present, AI technology is penetrating into various fields at an unprecedented speed, from intelligent voice assistants to image recognition, from autonomous driving to medical diagnosis, the presence of AI is everywhere. And what supports all of this is powerful computing power. TOKYO -- Huawei Technologies is steadily building up its own artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure with homegrown.
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