- Huawei is preparing to try his most advanced chip to date
- The reports say that Ascend 910D aims to challenge NVIDIA H100 in AI’s performance
- Analysts are skeptical, due to software gaps and ecosystem disadvantages
Huawei has been intensifying its ambitions to be seen as the Chinese rival of Nvidia in recent weeks, first, launching a new set of AI infrastructure architecture, the Supernode Coupematrix 384, to rival the NVL72 system of the US chips giant. UU.
Then, one day after the United States announced plans to even more harden the restrictions on chips exports from AI to China, including Nvidia H20 processor, Huawei revealed the Ascend 920, its next -generation IA chip, which entered mass production in the second half of 2025.
Now, a report in The Wall Street Journal He states that Huawei is preparing to test his most advanced chip to date, the Ascend 910D, and has approached several Chinese technological companies to begin technical evaluations. Sample lots are expected to be available as soon as at the end of May 2025.
Views established in the NVIDIA H100
The Ascend 910D is the last iteration of Huawei’s processors, based on existing 910b and 910c models. While the chip is not yet commercially available, Huawei hopes it can match, or even overcome, the performance of the NVIDIA H100.
Independent analysts are, of course, skeptics that Huawei will be able to close the performance and gap of the ecosystem with each other and NVIDIA in the short term.
HPCWIRE Neil Shah, vice president of counterpoint research, saying: “From a general design at the system level: calculation, memory integration, scalability of networks and, crucially, the software orchestration – NVIDIA remains three generations ahead.”
This gap is partly due to the established Nvidia software stack, especially CUDA, which plays an important role in the acceleration and management of AI workloads. Huawei, on the contrary, lacks a similar mature software platform, which hinders the optimization of GPUs or the scale through complex infrastructure.
Despite these obstacles, Huawei continues to send its 910C chips in volume to Chinese data and research laboratories and movement to test 910D suggests that the company is doubling efforts to build a self -sufficient hardware ecosystem.
Whether 910D becomes a true rival of NVIDIA H100, or remains a “good enough” option for domestic use, says a continuous change in the global Hardware of AI.
