Sources: Baidu ordered AI chips from Huawei in 2023 to shift away from Nvidia; a source says Baidu ordered 1,600 Ascend 910B chips, worth ~$62M, for 200 servers
The second person said that the order's total value was approximately 450 million yuan ($61.83 million) and that Huawei was to deliver all of the chips by the end of this year. Both people declined to be named because the details of the deal were confidential. 2/
Baidu ordered 1,600 of Huawei Technologies' 910B Ascend AI chips - which the Chinese firm developed as an alternative to Nvidia's A100 chip - for 200 servers, the source said, adding that by October, Huawei had delivered more 60% of the order. 1/ https://www.reuters.com/...
Baidu buys Ascend 910B AI chip from Huawei - said to be comparable to A100. https://www.reuters.com/... US chip sanctions may cause Nvidia/CUDA to lose the entire Chinese AI mkt. 910B fab = SMIC 7nm process? See Manifold episode with @tphuang for more: https://www.manifold1.com/.…