Huawei boss claims Ascend NPUs outsell Nvidia in China
Huawei rotating chairman Eric Xu said the company's Ascend NPUs have surpassed Nvidia in Chinese market share. He argued the chips are less advanced but their supply is assured, unlike US export-controlled accelerators. Huawei is deploying a 256,000-card Atlas 950 SuperCluster and plans to scale to one million NPUs.
- Xu: Ascend has surpassed Nvidia in China market share
- Huawei is deploying a 256,000-card Atlas 950 SuperCluster
- New architecture targets multi-trillion-parameter models
- H200 shipments to China were under 1% of Nvidia datacenter revenue
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