At the World AI Conference that opened in Shanghai on Saturday, Huawei emerged as China’s best hope for driving a domestic hardware sector for advanced artificial intelligence workloads. There, Huawei debuted its CloudMatrix 384 AI system, powered by 384 of its high-performance processors, the Ascend 910C GPUs. The setup has drawn favorable comparisons to Nvidia’s flagship supercomputing platform, the GB200 NVL72, a rack-scale solution for on-site AI and HPC tasks. Huawei’s new hardware reportedly drew large crowds to its booth, but the company declined to share detailed comments or live benchmarks, suggesting a tightly controlled public presentation. Continue reading Huawei May Challenge Nvidia with Its CloudMatrix AI System