Huawei Touts ’62 Times Quicker’ AI Chips to Overwhelm Nvidia

Huawei unveiled a three-year plan to rival Nvidia in AI chips, touting SuperPods that link thousands of Ascend processors with 62x faster data speeds.

Huawei has unveiled a three-year campaign to challenge Nvidia’s grip on AI chips, betting on massive clusters and faster connections to close the gap.

The China-based tech giant claims its new “SuperPod” systems can link tens of thousands of Ascend processors, boasting data transfers 62 times quicker than Nvidia’s next-generation products.

Bloomberg reported on the rare public roadmap that was laid out at Huawei’s annual Connect conference, where executives detailed upcoming chip models and infrastructure designs in a bid to outpace Nvidia’s dominance in AI hardware.

Blazingly fast connections across thousands of chips

Rotating chairman Eric Xu said the push will rely on a new UnifiedBus protocol, designed to knit together as many as 15,488 Ascend processors inside ...