Huawei AI chips ready to supply Baidu

Baidu, a leading Chinese AI firm, has purchased Huawei artificial intelligence chips, indicating US pressure is pushing China to adopt Huawei’s products over Nvidia’s.

The order was placed in August ahead of new US government rules tightening chip and chip tool exports to China in October.

Baidu bought 1,600 of Huawei Technologies’ 910B Ascend AI chips for 200 servers, with Huawei delivering 60% of the order by October.

Huawei plans to provide all the chips by the end of the year for 450 million yuan ($61.83 million).

The order is small compared to the hundreds of processors leading Chinese IT businesses have ordered from Nvidia.


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