Tech large Huawei unveiled new AI infrastructure meant to assist enhance compute energy and permit the corporate to raised compete with rival chipmaker Nvidia.
At a keynote at its Huawei Join convention on Thursday, Shenzhen, China-based Huawei introduced new SuperPoD Interconnect know-how that may hyperlink as much as 15,000 graphics playing cards, together with Huawei’s Ascend AI chips, collectively to extend compute energy.
This tech appears to be a competitor for Nvidia’s NVLink infrastructure, which facilitates high-speed communication between AI chips.
Know-how like this is vital for Huawei to raised compete with semiconductors like Nvidia’s. Whereas Huawei’s AI chips are much less highly effective than Nvidia’s, having the ability to cluster them collectively will give its customers entry to extra compute energy, which is required for coaching and scaling AI programs.
This information additionally comes only a day after China banned home tech firms from shopping for Nvidia’s {hardware}, together with Nvidia’s RTX Professional 600D servers particularly designed for the market in China.
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