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Huawei's brute force AI tactic seems to be working — CloudMatrix 384 claimed to outperform Nvidia processors running DeepSeek R1
It turns out that using four times the energy solves a lot of problems for Huawei.
Huawei's CloudMatrix AI cluster takes a comparatively simple approach in its attempt to beat Nvidia, and the company's researchers and an outside firm claim it has worked, at least in one instance. The cluster's hardware and software stack was found to outpace systems using Nvidia's H800 chip, a variant of the H100 pared down for export to China, as well as the H100 itself when running DeepSeek's 671-billion-parameter R1 model. The CloudMatrix is a rack-scale system that combines 384 dual-chiplet HiSilicon Ascend 910C NPUs with 192 CPUs across 16 server racks, using optical connections for all intra- and inter-server communications to enable blisteringly quick interconnects.
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