- Huawei launches Cloudmatrix 384 Supernode to rival NVL72 AI NVL72
- Cloudmatrix 384 offers almost double computing power with higher memory and bandwidth
- It consumes almost four times the power, but the efficiency of the system is less critical in China
Huawei has been positioning as the Chinese Nvidia for some time, and now, the Post in the morning of southern China It informs that the company has launched a new infrastructure architecture established to rival the NVL72 system of the US chips giant. UU.
The NVL72 of Nvidia links 72 GPU with NVLink technology, which allows them to function as a unique and powerful GPU. Built for AI models of billions of parameters, it offers real -time inference at speeds up to 30 times faster than the previous systems when avoiding the transference bottlenecks of traditional data.
SCMP Huawei’s rival said for this, the Cloudmatrix 384 Supernode has been described as a “nuclear level product” by sources of Huawei without a name. According to the reports, use 384 chips Ascend 910C to deliver 300 Petaflops of dense calculation BF16, that is almost double the 180 Petaflops offered by NVL72 of NVIDIA.
Hunger for power
The Cloudmatrix 384 Supernode has been deployed in the Huawei data centers in Wuhu, a city in the central province of Anhui, according to the report.
Writing about the new product, Semi -analysis Confirms that this Rack scale solution competes directly with the GB200 NVL72 of NVIDIA and, in some metrics, surpasses it. The site says that despite the sanctions, the capabilities of national semiconductors of China are growing and the strength of Huawei lies in engineering at the system level, including networks, optics and software.
Although the Ascend chips depend largely on foreign supply chains, such as Samsung HBM and TSMC wafers, Huawei has managed to border export controls through complex supply strategies.
The cloudmatrix 384 not only exceeds NVL72 in terms of computing, but also offers an aggregate memory capacity of 3.6xy 2.1x louder memory bandwidth. However, something that Huawei is probably less interested in shouting is that he consumes almost four times power.
Semi -analysis He points out that in China this is a problem less than you think. The generation of abundant energy means that efficiency is a less restriction compared to in the West, and China is expanding its grid of energy rapidly, supporting such an infrastructure of energy hungry, even when the supply exceeds demand.
