Reuters reports that Huawei will concentrate on growing the manufacturing of its AI chip, the Ascend 910B, on the expense of manufacturing of its Mate 60 telephones in no less than one facility.
Huawei makes each its Ascend AI chip and the Kirin chip, which powers the Mate 60, in a single facility. Nevertheless, manufacturing within the plant has been low, folks conversant in the matter advised Reuters, so the corporate now plans to prioritize the AI chip. Demand for Ascend chips, which support in coaching AI fashions, has been rising domestically. By delaying the manufacturing of chips for Mate 60, Huawei can concentrate on bettering the variety of usable and sellable chips from the ability. The Mate 60 helped Huawei beat Apple’s cellphone gross sales within the nation in 2023, writes the South China Morning Post, which makes slowing its manufacturing an fascinating guess on AI’s significance to the corporate.
Chinese language AI firms have a tough time sourcing extremely sought-after AI chips like Nvidia’s H100 after the United States imposed restrictions on chip exports. This has pushed Chinese language AI builders to make use of home options like Huawei’s Ascend 910B chip.
Chinese language firms have been making an attempt to plant their flag within the generative AI hype cycle however are at a slight developmental drawback to the US. Firms like Baidu have launched large language models and chatbots to the general public, however they’ve but to seek out the dimensions of OpenAI’s ChatGPT or Google’s Bard. China was the first country to come out with AI policies and requires firms engaged on AI merchandise to undergo an approval course of earlier than releasing them to the general public.
