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Friday 15 August 2025

DeepSeek's R2 stalls as Huawei Ascend chips fall short of Nvidia H100's capabilities

In the 2025 AI arms race, China's DeepSeek has become both a showcase of ambition and a cautionary tale on domestic chip limitations. Founded in Hangzhou in 2023 and backed by hedge...

Wednesday 13 August 2025

China to start mass production of domestic HBM3 chips, paving way for Huawei AI integration

China's domestic high-bandwidth memory (HBM) technology has reportedly reached a major milestone, with one of the nation's top DRAM manufacturers...

Thursday 7 August 2025

Huawei open-sources CANN to challenge Nvidia's CUDA dominance

Huawei plans to open-source its Compute Architecture for Neural Networks (CANN), a heterogeneous AI computing framework positioned as a direct alternative to Nvidia's dominant CUDA...

Monday 28 July 2025

Huawei debuts Nvidia's supernode rival at WAIC 2025 as local firms display advanced intelligent computing solutions

The 2025 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) opened on July 26 at the Shanghai Expo Center, highlighting the latest advancements in intelligent computing. Among the many...

Wednesday 16 July 2025

As Huawei Ascend courts the Middle East and Southeast Asia, Washington raises red flags

In early July, the US Department of Commerce issued a stark warning: using Huawei's Ascend AI chips "anywhere in the world" could be considered a violation of US export controls....

Monday 7 July 2025

Huawei rejects allegations that its Pangu AI model copied Alibaba's Qwen

Huawei has pushed back against claims that its newly open-sourced Pangu Pro MoE 72B model plagiarized Alibaba's Tongyi Qianwen (Qwen-2.5 14B), after a technical analysis flagged unusually...

Wednesday 25 June 2025

Huawei's benchmarks show CloudMatrix 384 helps put Ascend chips ahead of Nvidia H800

Huawei has released new benchmark results showing its CloudMatrix 384 AI infrastructure outperforming Nvidia's H800 GPU in running DeepSeek's R1 reasoning model, which contains 671...

Thursday 19 June 2025

Nvidia's NVL72 's new rival in town: Huawei flips the script with CloudMatrix 384

Huawei's CloudMatrix 384 supernode, powered by its Ascend 910 series AI processors, is positioning itself as a viable challenger to Nvidia's newly launched GB200 NVL72, despite trailing...

Thursday 19 June 2025

Huawei supernode neck-and-neck against Nvidia's, but supply chain risks loom

Huawei's new in-house constructed AI system, the CloudMatrix 384 supernode, integrated with its new AI accelerator and a rack-scale architecture...

Wednesday 18 June 2025

US sanctions in the rearview? Huawei talks tough on 5G-A, AI at MWC Shanghai

Amid mounting US sanctions and continued supply chain constraints on its HiSilicon Ascend processors, Huawei took the spotlight at the MWC Shanghai 2025 Global Mobile Broadband Elite...

Friday 6 June 2025

Can Huawei break Nvidia's hold? 2 key issues undercut Ascend 910C push

Huawei's efforts to displace Nvidia as the leading AI chip supplier in China with its Ascend 910C processor are facing significant setbacks. Industry insiders cite both entrenched...

Thursday 5 June 2025

Huawei cloud unit claims AI model breakthrough with new training method

Huawei's cloud division said its Pangu large language model achieved a breakthrough in training architecture with a new "Mixture of Group Experts" technology that outperforms competing...

Tuesday 27 May 2025

Huawei's SuperNode doubles Nvidia's AI throughput—built to train GPT-5-class models

At the Ascend AI Developer Summit on May 26, 2025, Huawei unveiled its new Ascend SuperNode architecture, the foundation of its CloudMatrix 384 high-performance AI compute cluster...

Friday 23 May 2025

Nvidia bets on Taipei, but can Taiwan deliver?

As Nvidia chooses to build its overseas headquarters in Taipei, Taiwan's government is promising to be more than a host. It wants to be Nvidia's strongest ally. But can it keep that...

Thursday 22 May 2025

Huawei's AI chip push gains ground amid US pressure and Nvidia ban in China

Huawei is rapidly expanding its footprint in China's AI chip market, capitalizing on Nvidia's recent regulatory hurdles and domestic momentum in artificial intelligence investments...

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