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

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Tech giant Huawei unveiled new AI infrastructure meant to help boost compute power and let the institution to amended vie with rival chipmaker Nvidia.  

At a keynote astatine its Huawei Connect conference on Thursday, Shenzhen, China-based Huawei announced new SuperPoD Interconnect technology that tin link up to 15,000 graphics cards, including Huawei’s Ascend AI chips, together to summation compute power. 

This tech seems to be a rival for Nvidia’s NVLink infrastructure, which facilitates high-speed connection between AI chips.  

Technology like this is captious for Huawei to amended vie with semiconductors like Nvidia’s. While Huawei’s AI chips are less powerful than Nvidia’s, being capable to clump them together will springiness its users access to more compute power, which is needed for grooming and scaling AI systems.  

This quality besides comes conscionable a time after China banned home tech companies from buying Nvidia’s hardware, including Nvidia’s RTX Pro 600D servers specifically designed for the marketplace successful China.  

TechCrunch reached retired to Huawei for much information.  

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