According to The Wall Street Journal, Huawei is prepping tests for its new Ascend 910D chip, pitched as an H100 killer.
They’ve been cozying up to Chinese tech firms for trial runs and are expecting sample batches as early as late May. Reuters piled on, reporting that mass shipments of the older 910C chip could start next month. Of course, Huawei has been chasing Nvidia’s shadow for years, ever since Uncle Sam slammed the door on exporting top-shelf AI hardware to China. The H100 wasn’t even allowed to legally exist there.
China lags behind in being able to build more dense chips. Other makers are down to 3 nanometers resolution. The best the Chinese can do is 7 nm. China imitates and steals. It doesn’t innovate.
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“reports suggest that Ascend 910C could deliver up to 320 TFLOPS of FP16 performance”
Chicoms, Huawei are smoke and mirrors on their claims of cutting edge and leading technologically.
The Huawei Ascend 910D chip is built using a 7-nanometer (7nm) process, manufactured domestically in China, primarily through SMIC (Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation). This process is less advanced than the 4nm technology used by Nvidia’s H100 but represents a significant achievement for China given ongoing export restrictions on advanced chipmaking equipment.
If you want to know how this compares to Nvidia’s or other chips, or have questions about its performance, let me know!
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My guess was a 20 nanometer process. 7 nanometer is impressive. My i5-12500 (Q1 2022) is 10 nanometer.
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Nvidia video cards always run on less wattage than comparable Radeon cards.
You will have the same situation with the CCP Ascend 910D chip. It will consume more watts (3x more?) than comparable Nvidia AI chips. It will run so hot in arrays, that it will need industrial fans cooling them off. The Chi-Clowns should look into water cooling them.
What really holds them back is that ASML lithography will not sell into China. Not since 2022 due to US pressure.
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-ASML is currently the world’s only supplier of extreme ultraviolet (EUV) photolithography equipment, used in the making of advanced chips with smaller features to cram in more circuitry. Export of these products to China was blocked by the Dutch government several years ago.
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ASML Holding N.V. (commonly shortened to ASML, originally standing for Advanced Semiconductor Materials Lithography) is a Dutch multinational corporation founded in 1984. ASML specializes in the development and manufacturing of photolithography machines which are used to produce integrated circuits.
As of 2023 it is the largest supplier for the semiconductor industry and the sole supplier in the world of extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUVL) photolithography machines that are required to manufacture the most advanced chips.[2] As of November 2024, ASML was the fourth most valuable company in Europe, and the second most valued European tech company, with a market capitalization of about US$264 billion.[3][4]
ASML’s corporate headquarters is in Veldhoven, Netherlands and the location for research, development, manufacturing and assembly. ASML employs more than 42,000 people[1]
Their chips need more power. Is that a problem for a country building power plants at a record pace?
If it is from Huawei, the malware is baked in before the name goes on.
This is nothing more than a dog whistle to “special” investors to get out, wait for NVidia to go down 10 points or so then buy the stock back at a lower price. This is like the third time this has happened over the last 90 days.