News Huawei introduces the Ascend 920 AI chip to fill the void left by Nvidia's H20

[Admin]

Huawei launches the Ascend 920 to take advantage of the gap that the banning of the Nvidia H20 chip will leave.

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[adbatista]

Huawei, the one some said would be dead after being banned for trading with NA companies...

 

[Loophero]

Huawei, the one some said would be dead after being banned for trading with NA companies...

Yeah, Huawei didn’t die but let’s be real, if it were any regular company in a normal country, it probably would’ve. The only reason it’s still kicking is because the government jumped in to keep it afloat. Most companies don’t get massive state funding, R&D help, and a closed-off market to fall back on. So it’s not that they ‘beat the odds’ they just had a pretty big safety net the whole time.

 

[Loophero]

Huawei claiming it’ll replace the H20 sounds great... until you remember they’re still stuck doing 6nm with DUV and no EUV in sight. High-yield mass production under those conditions? Good luck. Making one chip is cool making millions without frying your margins is the real challenge. Until they show real benchmarks and produce at scale, this sounds more like "powerpoint silicon" than a legit Nvidia replacement.

 

[Mindstab Thrull]

Either they had it about ready anyways and it was just lucky timing, or they took advantage of it to get more China sales. Could even be a mix of both! But I can't imagine Huawei sinking very quickly. And I'll wager that by 2030 China will have their own EUV or something equivalent up and running. Five years? Seems doable given how far they've already made it.

 

[nookoool]

Yeah, Huawei didn’t die but let’s be real, if it were any regular company in a normal country, it probably would’ve. The only reason it’s still kicking is because the government jumped in to keep it afloat. Most companies don’t get massive state funding, R&D help, and a closed-off market to fall back on. So it’s not that they ‘beat the odds’ they just had a pretty big safety net the whole time.

It is still pretty incredible that a company purposely targeted to be destroy by a the US has survived and thrived. Every country provided incentives to their own local companies to survive a economic downturn... ie intel, gm, boeing , delta, cough cough . In this case, a large state actor was involved in try to destroy it.

Huawei main money maker was in their telco gear which they were already mostly self sufficient and could of survived on that alone.

 

[Ralston18]

Time to close this.