Huawei AI chip cluster can rival Grace Blackwell, says Nvidia CEO
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has once again been found praising Huawei AI techs and agreed that the recently introduced CloudMatrix chip tech can compete with its Grace Blackwell. It seems the US firm really sees Huawei as a tough competitor.
In a recent interview with Bloomberg, the Nvidia CEO revealed that the new Huawei AI chip cluster, CloudMatrix 384, can rival Grace Blackwell. He added that the company has scaled up an even larger chip tech system than Nvidia.
The executive also stated that Huawei has become capable of providing China with more enhanced AI solutions compared to what Nvidia has been offering till now.
Eventually, Huawei’s efforts are making it a powerful company to compete in the Chinese AI market. It is not sitting still and looking for new roads to success.
Jensen Huang, said:
Huawei’s technology, based on our best understanding at the moment, is probably comparable to an H200.
“They’ve been moving quite fast. They’ve also offered this new system called CloudMatrix, which scales up to even a larger system than our latest generation, Grace Blackwell.”
CloudMatrix 384 is Huawei’s supernode AI chip architecture. It is a group of 384 Ascend AI processors (probably 910C), spread across 12 computing cabinets and four bus cabinets. It can provide 300 petaflops of computing power and 48TB of high-bandwidth memory.
Grace Blackwell is a cluster of superchips that fuses the Nvidia Grace CPU with Blackwell GPUs. The technology is designed to power AI and HPC workloads. It consists of GB200 and GB10 that offers robust performance via high-speed interconnections and advanced AI capabilities.
According to Jensen Huang, CloudMatrix performance is equivalent to Grace Blackwell. He implied that Huawei managed to bridge the AI gap to some extent.
The executive further noted that Huawei AI chips (Ascend 910C) can draw level with the H200 AI accelerator. Jensen said Huawei has made rapid progress in AI. Although this speed can hurt Nvidia’s chip business in China.
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