Huawei Says Ascend Leads Nvidia in China as Training Gap Persists

Huawei says its Ascend artificial-intelligence chips have overtaken Nvidia in China based on internal data, but Nvidia retains an advantage in training software as Chinese companies expand domestic inference capacity. Huawei rotating chairman Eric Xu said Ascend had surpassed Nvidia in China. Huawei did not provide a market-share percentage, measurement period or explanation of whether the comparison used revenue or unit shipments. Nvidia’s CUDA software ecosystem remains deeply embedded in AI development and training. That makes training workloads harder to migrate than inference, which involves using completed models to generate results.

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