Director of Huawei, said chip Ascend 910B of the airline have equivalent strength, even more than Nvidia A100 in a number of respects.
On the sidelines of The semiconductor world (WSC) on 6/6 at nanjing (China), Wang Tao, a senior director in charge of ecosystem Ascend and Kunpeng of Huawei, said chip Ascend 910B of its high efficiency equal to 80% Nvidia A100 when training the language models, big (LLM). “In a number of trials, the Ascend can beat the A100 to 20% on performance,” I said.
According to him, Ascend 910B and A100 “not much difference” if you compare the performance and computational power when training the model, WHO grew. However, this person does not refer models WHO are given the test before any conclusions on.
Follow SCMPspeaking of Tao is “the breeze rare” that Huawei put out when compared to one of the AI chip is the hunt for the most current of Nvidia. The company is self-produced new chip in the context is the U.s. ban, even Nvidia't be selling AI chip for China, including the A100 and H100, the past few years.
Huawei first introduced the chip Ascend 2019, four months after being sent to the black list of American commerce. Since then, the company focused on building the ecosystem of hardware and proprietary software was designed specifically to serve the customers in the country.
Months ago, Zhang Dixuan, the head of the department of business computing of Huawei, said the ecosystem, Huawei has 40 partners, hardware, 1.600 partner software and 2,900 application solutions ANYONE. The company will chip design, also the production is delivered to the SMIC.
On march 3, Dylan Patel, analyst of research firm selling leads SemiAnalysis also evaluate Ascend 910B stronger than A100. According to the information Patel has been in the semiconductor industry, Ascend 910B is chips manufacturer China's top SMIC fabricated on process 7 nm. Ascend 910B is sold through the distribution channel in China.
It is unclear chip 910B official birth when. Some sources claim that it had appeared at the same time with Mate 60, but when that little is to italy. Lead source in the supply chain Reuters said from January 11/2023, Baidu has order of 1,600 chip Ascend 910B to operate the system AI.
Earlier, tsinghua University also claims AI chip due to school, create had the power folding 3.7 times A100 of Nvidia in the task computer vision. Known as ACCEL, chip advantage of the ability to calculate the optical, electronic and sequentially in an architecture specialized activities based on light and use photon to handle communication high speed. However, until now chips still no commercial version.
WSC opening day 5/6 in nanjing, jiangsu province, China. The event attracted more than 200 booths from many fields, including AI, automotive, automation software, electronic design (EDA). The leading company has TSMC, SMIC, Huawei, Tencent.
Source: vnexpress.net