[Hardware] Huawei says its AI chip better than Nvidia’s A100 amid China’s self-reliance drive

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The Ascend 910B AI chip has beaten Nvidia’s A100 in some tests, says a Huawei executive at the Nanjing World Semiconductor Conference

A Huawei Technologies executive said the company’s latest artificial intelligence (AI) chip is on par with, if not better than Nvidia’s A100 – one of the most po[CENSORED]r graphics processing units (GPUs) used in the AI industry – in a rare boast by the Chinese tech giant that underscores how quickly it is growing in a market dominated by its US rival.

Huawei’s Ascend 910B AI chip has been found in some tests to deliver 80 per cent of the efficiency of an Nvidia A100 when training large language models, but “in some other tests, Ascend chips can beat the A100 by 20 per cent”, said Wang Tao, chief operating officer of Jiangsu Kunpeng Ecosystem Innovation Centre, on the sidelines of the Nanjing World Semiconductor Conference on Thursday.

There is “not much difference” between the computing power performances of the Huawei 910B and Nvidia A100 in large AI model training, Wang added.

 

 

Huawei says its AI chip better than Nvidia’s A100 amid China’s self-reliance drive | South China Morning Post