☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 day agoHuawei unveiled supernode clusters as an alternative to Nvidia and has open-sourced its CANN heterogeneous compute architecturewww.huawei.comexternal-linkmessage-square3fedilinkarrow-up141arrow-down10
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minus-square☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·14 hours agoThey’re not using Nvidia hardware, they developed their own Ascend chips and they figured out a way to connect them which drops latency meaning that even though individual chips are slower, the cluster as a whole is competitive with Nvidia. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/18/huawei-atlas-950-960-ai-chip-cluster-node-processor-nvidia-china-us-rtx-blackwell.html
They’re not using Nvidia hardware, they developed their own Ascend chips and they figured out a way to connect them which drops latency meaning that even though individual chips are slower, the cluster as a whole is competitive with Nvidia.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/18/huawei-atlas-950-960-ai-chip-cluster-node-processor-nvidia-china-us-rtx-blackwell.html