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Huawei Technologies unveiled an AI computing system that one industry expert has said it rivals Nvidia’s (NASDAQ:NVDA) most advanced product, Reuters reported.
The Chinese tech giant showed off the CloudMatrix 384 system at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference, or WAIC, in Shanghai, the report added.
Huawei had announced the system in April. Industry analysts see it as a direct rival to Nvidia’s GB200 NVL72, the company’s most advanced system-level product currently available in the market, the report noted.
Huawei did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Seeking Alpha.
Dylan Patel, founder of semiconductor research group SemiAnalysis, said in an article in April that Huawei now had AI system capabilities that could beat Nvidia, according to the report.
The CloudMatrix 384 consists of 384 of Huawei’s latest 910C chips and outperforms Nvidia’s GB200 NVL72 on some metrics, which uses 72 B200 chips, as per SemiAnalysis, the report added.
The performance comes from Huawei’s system design capabilities, which compensate for weaker individual chip performance via using more chips and system-level innovations, according to SemiAnalysis.
Huawei notes that the system uses “supernode” architecture which allows the chips to interconnect at super-high speed. In June, Huawei Cloud CEO Zhang Pingan said the CloudMatrix 384 system was operational on Huawei’s cloud platform, the report added.
In May, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang discussed concerns about Huawei’s growing AI prowess with U.S. lawmakers. In March, as well, the Nvidia chief talked about Huawei, which has seen a resurgence in its smartphone and AI chip development business. “Huawei is the single most formidable technology company in China,” said Huang. He had said that U.S.-led efforts to restrict Huawei have been “done poorly” given Huawei’s continued success.