[News] Huawei’s Ascend 910C Takes on NVIDIA as China’s AI Race Heats Up: More Alleged Details

As the emergence of DeepSeek, with its low-budget AI models, sent shock waves across China’s AI market, the rising demand for computing power has found a strong ally in Huawei. According to Wccftech, Huawei’s upcoming Ascend 910C is set to heat up competition, and could be a serious contender to NVIDIA’s H100 in China.

The report highlights that Ascend 910C is gearing up for launch, with production underway and key details emerging. Notably, Wccftech suggests the chip is built on 7nm from both TSMC and SMIC, adding that the Chinese tech conglomerate secured large 7nm orders from TSMC before export restrictions, with the Taiwanese foundry giant handling most of the production.

However, the report also notes that China’s top foundry SMIC, with a monthly output of 50,000 wafers, is also expected to contribute, supporting Huawei’s goal of shipping millions of AI chips.

Wccftech, citing well-known analyst @ohlennart, reveals that Huawei’s Ascend 910C takes a simpler approach than NVIDIA’s chips, using two silicon interposers connected via an organic substrate.

Simply put, Ascend 910C essentially combines two 910B chips for higher performance, reportedly hitting 800 TFLOP/s at FP16 with 3.2 TB/s memory bandwidth—nearly 80% as performant as NVIDIA’s H100, as per the report.

According to a previous Financial Times report, Huawei has doubled the yield of its latest AI chips to nearly 40%, up from 20% a year ago, making its Ascend chip production line profitable for the first time.

The report also notes that Huawei plans to produce 100K 910C and 300K 910B chips in 2025, a jump from 200K 910Bs and no 910Cs in 2024.

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