SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China's Huawei Technologies showed off its AI computing system on Saturday, saying one industry expert is rivaling Nvidia's most advanced products as the Chinese tech giant is trying to gain market share in the country's growing artificial intelligence sector.
The CloudMatrix 384 System made its first public debut at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC), a three-day event in Shanghai.
The system has been meticulously taken from the global AI community since it was first announced by Huawei (HWT.UL) in April. Industry analysts consider it a direct competitor to the NVIDIA (NVDA.O), the GB200 NVL72.
In an April article, Dylan Patel, founder of Semiconductor Research Group Semianalysis, said Huawei has AI system features that could beat Nvidia.
Waic Booth's Huawei staff declined to comment when asked to deploy the CloudMatrix 384 system. A Huawei spokesman did not answer the question.
Huawei has been widely regarded as China's most promising domestic supplier of chips essential for AI development despite the company facing US export restrictions. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told Bloomberg in May that Huawei was “moving very fast,” citing CloudMatrix as an example.
The CloudMatrix 384 incorporates 384 of Huawei's latest 910C chips, surpassing Nvidia's GB200 NVL72 in several metrics using the 72 B200 chip, according to Semianalysis.
This performance comes from Huawei's system design capabilities and compensates for the weaker performance of individual chips by using more chips and system-level innovations, Semianalysis said.
According to Huawei, the system uses a “supernode” architecture that allows chips to interconnect at super high speeds, and in June Huawei Cloud CEO Zhang Pingan said the CloudMatrix 384 system is running on Huawei's cloud platform.
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