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Huawei's Ascend 910C delivers 60% of Nvidia H100 inference performance
Aging chip could succeed in reducing China's reliance on Nvidia GPUs.
DeepSeek's native support for Ascend processors and its PyTorch repository allows for seamless CUDA-to-CUNN conversion with minimal effort, making it easier to integrate Huawei's hardware into AI workflows. This suggests that Huawei's AI processor's capabilities are advancing rapidly, despite sanctions by the U.S. government and the lack of access to leading-edge process technologies of TSMC. While Huawei and SMIC have managed to catch up with TSMC's capabilities in the 2019–2020 era and produce a chip that can be considered competitive with Nvidia's A100 and H100 processors, the Ascend 910C is not the best option for AI training.
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